Our Gitter chat is a great place to learn, discuss, and collaborate with other members to build a better treehouses platform. The chat lets our development team and interns communicate easily, and signup is through each member’s GitHub account.
Communication is key in every collaborative project, and treehouses is no different. Gitter provides tight integration with Github and provides full rich text support through Markdown an important tool for clean and efficient communication. Combining these features allows members to mention other members in a message, format text, share images and code, and directly link to GitHub issues and repositories.
As you complete the First Steps, we want you to keep us updated in the Gitter chat. Generally, you should comment in the chat when you make an issue or pull request, and then link to it. Make a mention (@name) of someone when you comment on their issue/pull request, then link to it. For example:
Hey @dogi, just commented on your issue: treehouses#2
This good etiquette helps streamline communication between internship candidates and staff members alike! Feel free to look through the chat for more examples.
You may want to include clarifying images with your messages. To add an image in the chat, either drag and drop or copy and paste it into the messaging area.
Below is the preview of our Gitter chat room. Click here for the full Gitter chat page. We also encourage the use of Gitter chat apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iPhone, visit the download page here.
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