Scientific computing doesn’t have to hurt. – Greg Wilson GitHub and Lesson Development Joshua Adelman made his first contribution to the GitHub repository this week, with a small but much-needed fix to a missing image in the Novice Python lessons. We … Continue reading
Last week we shared plans for our latest project around code as a research object. At the bottom of the post, we put a call out for both scientists and publishers to join us as testers. A number of emails … Continue reading
Part of the Science Lab’s mission is to work with other community members to build technical prototypes that move science on the web forward. In particular, we want to show that many problems can be solved by making existing tools … Continue reading
It’s Computer Science Education Week, and some fantastic technology and education organizations, including Mozilla Webmaker, are participating in the first ever Hour of Code. Millions of people will try their hand at coding this week, some for the very first … Continue reading
Note: There will be a Mozilla Science Lab meeting this Thursday, starting at 11 AM EDT. GitHub and Lesson Development Software Carpentry is pleased to announce the release of v2013.11 of the lesson materials repository. This release represents nearly 2 years of collaborative lesson … Continue reading
Here it is: Make it dead-simple for site visitors to find a donation link or button. We increased the click-to-donate elements on Mozilla’s homepage from one to four during the campaign. As a result, we’ve raised over $10,000 in donations … Continue reading
Our second community call will take place this Thursday, December 12. The call is open to the public and will start at 11 am ET. Call in details can be found on the call etherpad and on the wiki. The … Continue reading
In partnership with the snippet team, we’ve finished the first phase of snippet testing. (See: What’s the “Snippet”?) We’re running the most extensive snippet optimization tests ever conducted – we are learning a lot about the snippet and its audience. There … Continue reading
Mozilla recently added a new tool to the Webmaker suite: user profiles. Although still in alpha mode, user profiles are automatically available to anyone who signs up for a Webmaker account. We chatted with front end architect Gavin Suntop to … Continue reading
To date most of Mozilla’s individual donors have been from English-speaking locales (United States, Canada, Australia, Great Britain; etc.). That doesn’t reflect Mozilla’s community, which is truly global. I knew we could find new donors that want to support us … Continue reading
