One thing that has taken me some time to grasp after joining Mozilla is the concept of “working open”. My colleague Matt Thompson defines working open like this: Sharing signposts, drafts, prototypes and roadmaps on our blogs, etc. The primary … Continue reading
1. Mozilla Science Lab Community Call Over 60 people took part in the Mozilla Science Lab’s first community call on Thursday November 14. (The number would have been much higher, but Etherpad and our conference call system were having technical … Continue reading
inFORM — Stunning development by MIT’s Media Lab allows the digital manipulation of real objects using a Kinect sensor and a motorized board. Should I use a carousel? — No, you shouldn’t.
The results from our code review pilot are in! This past August, we launched a pilot with PLOS Computational Biology and some of our colleagues at Mozilla to explore the idea of code review for science. With the help of … Continue reading
Double exposures — Mashable created a nice collection of Instagram double exposures. API Commons — An open, non-profit registry for developers to share and reuse API specifications, interfaces and data models. PyData videos — A collection of videos from PyData’s … Continue reading
To help you keep on top of Software Carpentry news, one of our contributors and instructors, Aron Ahmadia, has begun pulling together weekly summaries. Here you can see what the community has been up to, find out how you can … Continue reading
We’ll be kicking off our community calls next Thursday, November 14th. The call is open to the public and will start at 11 am ET. Calls will take place every four weeks, running with the monthly Software Carpentry lab meeting. … Continue reading
One of the lasting joys of MozFest is watching projects that were conceived over the three-day weekend explode post-festival with lives of their own. Attenborrowed is a great example of a MozFest-inspired creation that has grown into something huge. This … Continue reading
We did it! We’re still recovering from this year’s Mozilla Festival (“MozFest” for short), which wrapped up last week. The festival brought over 1400 participants together at Ravensbourne College in London for two and a half days of hacking, learning, … Continue reading
Touch Board — Transform touch into sound with this unbelievably cool, open source, Arduino-compatible device. The possibilities are endless. Big brother bundle — A collection of big brother-themed games, graphic novels, documentaries, music and books curated by Wikileaks’ Daniel Domscheit-Berg. … Continue reading
