What’s happening this week There are some open spaces at the Pycon bootcamps. Librarians, aspiring R programmers, bioinformaticians, and programming teachers can find a matching event. Register here. There are also some open spaces at the Women in Science and … Continue reading
Earlier this month, the office of Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke released the first report by the Chattanooga Forward Gig, Technology, and Entrepreneurship Task Force. This report is the product of many months of studying how Chattanooga has responded to and … Continue reading
This is a cross-post from Hive Toronto member Success Beyond Limits (SBL). The post originally appeared on the SBL site and we include it here with permission. In 2010, in response to youth in our community expressing a need for … Continue reading
As we head into Q2, let’s build a better “workbench” and online scrum board for Webmaker. TLDR version: Check out the freshly udpated Webmaker Wiki. It’s one-stop shopping for key roadmaps, planning documents, tickets, and scrums. And will help provide … Continue reading
What’s happening next week There are still a couple of spaces left for the live version of the Software Carpentry Instructor Training Course to be held in Toronto April 28–30. If you’d like more information, please contact Greg Wilson. Workshops … Continue reading
How might we create connected learning and web literacy opportunities for youth? To break it down further: how might we move youth from consumers to creators through learning opportunities that are highly social, interest-driven, and production- focused and integrate … Continue reading
We are thrilled to share that Thimble, our code editor for beginners, has been recognized by Common Sense Media as one of the best educational tools online with the 2014 ON for Learning Award. The awards celebrate the year’s best … Continue reading
It’s been just over three months since we first announced our collaboration with GitHub (a code hosting service) and figshare (an open data repository) exploring the idea of “code as a research object”. There’s been much progress and discussion about … Continue reading
Last week was Open Education Week. As part of it, I helped moderate an online discussion on behalf of Mozilla about Open Education and the Open Web. We provided a new prompt every day in our Webmaker Google+ community and … Continue reading
Often it’s difficult to get contributions to open projects because some people aren’t quite sure what contribution means or how to go about doing it. Other folks don’t know what “open” means, and thus they don’t know they can contribute … Continue reading
