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+title: First 6 Months of The BORR Project
+slug: first-six-months-of-borr
+authors: r0hitm
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+---
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+The BORR Project started out as a community fork of OSSU to rebuild the community where people can come together, geek out, and support one another in a peer learning environment for computer science and math. Six months in, we’re excited to share our progress.
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+### Repos & Discord Community
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+- We launched a new Docusaurus-based website. Compared to a GitHub README, it offers a significantly better user experience and allows us to organize supplementary information without clutter. Recent additions include progress tracking (inspired by The Odin Project) and global search.
+- Our Discord server leverages new community features like onboarding, forums, event channels, and AutoMod. We also recently activated our server tag.
+- Despite having only 83 members (at the time of writing), we observed **13% more activity** in public channels over the last 5 months compared to the OSSU server.
+- We held active cohort meetings with consistent participation and organized a server event around the CodinGame Summer Challenge.
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+### Curriculum
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+- We promptly addressed issues with courses affected by Coursera's removal of the audit option by identifying alternative resources.
+- We have seen familiar and new faces contributing to our repos, streamlining resource suggestions and fixes. The Preschool Math curriculum, for instance, received a complete overhaul.
+- We avoid a strict "lecture-only" policy, embracing books, articles, and other formats. For example, we recommend *Dive into Systems* combined with *CS:APP* lectures and labs as our primary resource, keeping the *CS:APP* textbook as an optional supplement since it is not free. This approach, suggested before students start [OSTEP](/computer-science/systems/ostep), helps students plan their studies effectively in the systems programming section.
+- The curriculum is actively maintained with frequent contributions on GitHub regarding courses, issues, and research suggestions. We've also added supplemental resources to many courses.
+
+## Roadmap for the Next 6 Months
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+Beyond gathering user feedback and adapting to community needs, our key goals for the next half-year include:
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+- Developing comprehensive "Setting Up Your Development Environment" guides, inspired by The Odin Project.
+- Creating a showcase board for students to share their curriculum work and projects.
+- Hosting more server events and group activities.
+- Formalizing a governance structure that is open and collaborative.
+- Organizing focus groups (tutors, website maintainers, curriculum maintainers, etc.) and assigning roles.
+- And marketing! We plan to announce the Borr Project on Reddit, Hacker News, and the wider internet to acquire more users.
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+Join us in building a place where we can all geek out and learn together!

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