Join the Flamingalo Website Team! 🦩🔥
Hey Flamingalers! 👋
We’re looking for community members who want to help build and improve our official website. Whether you’re a developer, designer, writer, or just passionate about making Flamingalo better, we’d love to have you on board!
🎨 How You Can Contribute
For Developers
- Improve existing features and functionality
- Add new interactive elements
- Fix bugs and optimize performance
- Review code and suggest improvements
- Help with responsive design and accessibility
For Content Creators
- Write blog posts about Flamingalo experiences
- Create guides and tutorials for participants
- Translate content to other languages
- Document community stories and memories
- Share photos and visual content
For Designers
- Improve UI/UX across the site
- Create graphics and illustrations
- Design new sections and pages
- Enhance visual consistency
- Work on branding elements
For Everyone
- Report bugs and issues you find
- Suggest new features and improvements
- Test the website on different devices
- Share feedback from the community
- Help organize content and information
🚀 Our Tech Stack
The Flamingalo website is built with modern, performant technologies:
- Astro 5 - Lightning-fast static site generation
- React 19 - Interactive UI components
- TypeScript - Type-safe development
- Tailwind CSS 4 - Modern styling
- Markdown - Easy content creation for blog posts
Don’t worry if you’re not familiar with all of these - we’re here to help you learn!
💬 How to Get Started
Step 1: Join Our Community
The first step is to join our Telegram community where all the magic happens!
👉 Join Flamingalo 2025 Telegram
Step 2: Find the Website Team
Once you’re in the Telegram group:
- Introduce yourself and mention you want to help with the website
- Look for people already involved in the website project
- Ask about current needs and how you can contribute
- The ORG team will connect you with the right people
Step 3: Start Contributing
No coding experience? No problem! We need:
- ✅ Writers for blog posts
- ✅ Translators for multiple languages
- ✅ Testers to find bugs
- ✅ Community members to provide feedback
- ✅ Anyone with ideas to share!
Have coding skills? Awesome! We need:
- ✅ Frontend developers
- ✅ UI/UX designers
- ✅ Accessibility experts
- ✅ Performance optimization help
🌟 Why Contribute?
It’s a Co-Created Event
Flamingalo is built by the community, for the community. The website is no different! This is your chance to be part of something bigger and help shape the digital home of our amazing event.
Learn and Grow
Working on an open project like this is a fantastic way to:
- Learn new technologies
- Collaborate with talented people
- Build your portfolio
- Make real impact
Embody the 10 Principles
Contributing to the website embodies several of the Burning Man principles:
- Participation - Be part of creating, not just consuming
- Communal Effort - Work together to build something amazing
- Gifting - Share your skills and time with the community
- Civic Responsibility - Help maintain our digital infrastructure
📋 Current Projects and Needs
Here are some areas where we especially need help:
Content
- Blog posts about past Flamingalo experiences
- Guides for first-time participants
- Information about art installations
- Workshop and camp descriptions
- Translation to Portuguese and other languages
Development
- Mobile responsiveness improvements
- Performance optimization
- Accessibility enhancements
- New interactive features
- Bug fixes and testing
Design
- Graphics for blog posts
- Illustrations for guides
- Visual elements for different sections
- Social media graphics
- Print materials
🤝 Collaboration Spirit
Remember, we follow the 10 Principles of Burning Man. When contributing:
- Be respectful and inclusive
- Share knowledge freely
- Give and receive feedback gracefully
- Collaborate, don’t compete
- Have fun and be creative!
📞 Questions?
Have questions about contributing? Need technical help getting started? Want to pitch an idea?
Join the Telegram group and reach out! The community is friendly, welcoming, and always happy to help newcomers get involved.
Let’s Build This Together! 🔥
The Flamingalo website is more than just a collection of pages - it’s a reflection of our community, our values, and our creative spirit. Every contribution, no matter how small, makes a difference.
Whether you can commit 5 minutes or 5 hours a week, whether you’re a seasoned developer or someone who just wants to write a blog post - we want you on the team!
See you in the Telegram group! 🦩✨
This is a co-created event, and that includes our website too. Let’s make it amazing together.