On April 11 & 12 Webmaker and Open Badges had teachers cutting, gluing, and sharing at the first annual Oppi Festival in Helsinki, Finland. Since “oppi” means “learning” in Finnish, this was the perfect place to have exciting conversations about … Continue reading
What’s happening this week We will have our busiest week ever! Between Monday and Tuesday, almost 350 people will participate in one of our 6 events. Big, big thanks to our 14 instructors, 20 helpers, and 7 sponsors! At PyCon … Continue reading
Looking for a way to continue discussions with those interested in open research? The Science Lab has a dedicated channel on IRC. IRC (Internet Relay Chat — think of it as the precursor to Google Chat or AIM) is an … Continue reading
reposted from Laura Hilliger’s blog at zythepsary.com This weekend, I’ll be leading a Webmaker Training for the National Citizens Service (NCS). NCS is an organization in the UK that provides learning opportunities for young people living in England and Northern … Continue reading
A month ago, we launched a second pilot study of code review for scientific software as a follow-on to the first study reported here in November. Where the first round had professional software developers review the software associated with papers … Continue reading
Creating web pages in Thimble? You may notice some changes to your Thimble links. What’s different? Your Thimble URLs now have an extra bit in the middle: a unique identifier made up of random letters. So for example, in the … Continue reading
Our next community call will take place this Thursday, April 10. The call is open to the public and will start at 11 am ET. Call in details can be found on the call etherpad (where you can also find … Continue reading
Silicon Prairie News just released a two-part piece exploring the impact of Google Fiber on Kansas City, now 3 years since the original announcement that declared Kansas City, Kan. the first city in America to get it. SPN dives into … Continue reading
What’s happening next week A workshop at the Scripps Institute in San Diego needs instructors and helpers. It will be sometime in the second half of May and cannot happen without your help. If you are not into San Diego’s … Continue reading
This year Webmaker is using the Open Badges Infrastructure (OBI) – and the newly-minted BadgeKit – to issue Webmaker badges. The first of these will be a Super Mentor badge. (note that the badge won’t look like the image to … Continue reading
