Project Ricotta

• A volunteer effort with GDI to build a new web and mobile platform for Lasagna Love volunteers
• Proposed switch to MySQL, Azure, and Prisma for better database management
• MySQL for local development, Azure for staging/production environments
• Prisma's ORM for an objects-first approach and less boilerplate
• Supabase as an open-source alternative to Firebase with Postgres database and other features
• Supabase removes need for DevOps tasks like installation and authentication
• Invites developers, product managers, and ops engineers to join as contributors, maintainers, or mentors
• Mentors manage office hours, maintainers lead the development of specific components, and contributors work on required tickets
• Cooperative contributions and respect for community members emphasized with a code of conduct in place
• Collaboration is central to Project Ricotta and the broader free software community
• Contributors encouraged to ask for help when unsure and consult with others when disagreements arise
• Contributions from outside the project should fork the repo and send a pull request from their fork
• Members of the project should create named branches, ideally namespaced to their user
• Pull requests should include unit tests, concise code comments, and examples if necessary
• Fully volunteer effort, welcoming contributions from the community
• Project Ricotta aims to make a tangible, measurable, and wholeheartedly good impact on the world.