From df4c2e671e5138a96ef83bc1d1d0e7820ad80ed8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pulkit Krishna Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:44:47 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Publish 6 months update blog post Updated the draft status to false and revised member activity statistics. Added details on governance structure formalization and curriculum updates. To be merged on 24 December 2025. --- blog/2025/12/24-first-six-months-of-borr.md | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/blog/2025/12/24-first-six-months-of-borr.md b/blog/2025/12/24-first-six-months-of-borr.md index 8dad0bc..986305d 100644 --- a/blog/2025/12/24-first-six-months-of-borr.md +++ b/blog/2025/12/24-first-six-months-of-borr.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ title: First 6 Months of The BORR Project slug: first-six-months-of-borr authors: r0hitm -draft: true +draft: false --- 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. @@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ The BORR Project started out as a community fork of OSSU to rebuild the communit - 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. +- Despite having only 91 members (at the time of writing), we observed **27% 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. +- We have started working on formalizing the governance structure of the project, and working on a draft of the project bylaws. We are aiming for a governance structure that is open and collaborative, while not being too bureaucratic. We are tking inspiration from several prominent open source projects. ### Curriculum @@ -22,6 +23,7 @@ The BORR Project started out as a community fork of OSSU to rebuild the communit - 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. +- We have started the work of moving the CS curriculum to CS2023 guidelines, from the older CS2013 guidelines. We are having discussions on this topic in [a dedicated channel on the discord server](https://discord.com/channels/1385616874200371350/1444728546760069242). ## Roadmap for the Next 6 Months @@ -30,7 +32,7 @@ Beyond gathering user feedback and adapting to community needs, our key goals fo - 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. +- Completing the formalization of the governance structure and the bylaws. - 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. From 14f79ca3d6328fb580c7002b0839418d1faccccf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pulkit Krishna Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:46:50 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Correct duration --- blog/2025/12/24-first-six-months-of-borr.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/blog/2025/12/24-first-six-months-of-borr.md b/blog/2025/12/24-first-six-months-of-borr.md index 986305d..3ea7de2 100644 --- a/blog/2025/12/24-first-six-months-of-borr.md +++ b/blog/2025/12/24-first-six-months-of-borr.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ The BORR Project started out as a community fork of OSSU to rebuild the communit - 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 91 members (at the time of writing), we observed **27% more activity** in public channels over the last 5 months compared to the OSSU server. +- Despite having only 91 members (at the time of writing), we observed **27% more activity** in public channels over the last 6 months compared to the OSSU server. - We held active cohort meetings with consistent participation and organized a server event around the CodinGame Summer Challenge. - We have started working on formalizing the governance structure of the project, and working on a draft of the project bylaws. We are aiming for a governance structure that is open and collaborative, while not being too bureaucratic. We are tking inspiration from several prominent open source projects. From 07f9d5eb74c3032696323c5ac74d0dca1b17269b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pulkit Krishna Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:34:04 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Add details about Study Hall and Advent of Code --- blog/2025/12/24-first-six-months-of-borr.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/blog/2025/12/24-first-six-months-of-borr.md b/blog/2025/12/24-first-six-months-of-borr.md index 3ea7de2..b2d995a 100644 --- a/blog/2025/12/24-first-six-months-of-borr.md +++ b/blog/2025/12/24-first-six-months-of-borr.md @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ The BORR Project started out as a community fork of OSSU to rebuild the communit - Our Discord server leverages new community features like onboarding, forums, event channels, and AutoMod. We also recently activated our server tag. - Despite having only 91 members (at the time of writing), we observed **27% more activity** in public channels over the last 6 months compared to the OSSU server. - We held active cohort meetings with consistent participation and organized a server event around the CodinGame Summer Challenge. +- We launched our Study Hall, which gave home to numerous public study sessions and quite a few teamworks. +- Because puzzle solving is fun, we also organized an event around Advent of Code 2025. Being our most popular event at this point, it proved to be nicely balanced between competition and collaboration. - We have started working on formalizing the governance structure of the project, and working on a draft of the project bylaws. We are aiming for a governance structure that is open and collaborative, while not being too bureaucratic. We are tking inspiration from several prominent open source projects. ### Curriculum From e66ffd5ab3ef8b8d935bea211bc8d6bbdd97aa9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pulkit Krishna Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:39:37 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Fix typos --- blog/2025/12/24-first-six-months-of-borr.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/blog/2025/12/24-first-six-months-of-borr.md b/blog/2025/12/24-first-six-months-of-borr.md index b2d995a..9dabc04 100644 --- a/blog/2025/12/24-first-six-months-of-borr.md +++ b/blog/2025/12/24-first-six-months-of-borr.md @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The BORR Project started out as a community fork of OSSU to rebuild the communit - We held active cohort meetings with consistent participation and organized a server event around the CodinGame Summer Challenge. - We launched our Study Hall, which gave home to numerous public study sessions and quite a few teamworks. - Because puzzle solving is fun, we also organized an event around Advent of Code 2025. Being our most popular event at this point, it proved to be nicely balanced between competition and collaboration. -- We have started working on formalizing the governance structure of the project, and working on a draft of the project bylaws. We are aiming for a governance structure that is open and collaborative, while not being too bureaucratic. We are tking inspiration from several prominent open source projects. +- We have started working on formalizing the governance structure of the project, and drafting the bylaws of the project. We are aiming for a governance structure that is open and collaborative, while not being too bureaucratic. We are taking inspiration from several prominent open source projects. ### Curriculum