Last week marked the midway point for the Gigabit Fund’s first round projects. In KC, we marked this milestone with an event at Google Fiber Space during 1 Week KC, and delivered a public report-out on our progress. Each of … Continue reading
At this year’s Vancouver Mini Maker Faire in additional to having an awesome Mozilla Webmaker booth, Emma, Dethe & I decided to put together a Makers as Mentors workshop to encourage local makers to become mentors through Maker Parties! Amongst … Continue reading
As you may know from some recent posts, it’s the first anniversary of the creation of Mozilla Science Lab. The actual day was June 14, and in lieu of sending you all a piece of cake, here are some pictures … Continue reading
Mozilla is proud to share Discover, a prototype for a tool that empowers young people to identify an amazing career, then map the skills and experiences needed to land it. Finding a career can be challenging. Cool jobs exist, but … Continue reading
This is cross posted from http://www.arfon.org/json-ld-for-software-discovery-reuse-and-credit This is a continuation of some work I’ve been doing with the Mozilla Science Lab and their ‘code as a research object’ program. There’s multiple aspects to this project including work on code and GUI prototypes, discussions around best practices … Continue reading
Eila McLeish, the Children’s & Youth Services Librarian at Georgina Public Libraries recently connected with Hive Toronto to share her experiences with the Making Makers Collaborative Community Project from 2013. Making Makers involved collaboration by Kids Learning Code, Maker Kids, … Continue reading
One thing that the scientific code review pilot study has highlighted is how much perspective matters to collaboration. Over time, professional software developers (including scientists whose primary role has shifted to software development) build up an overview of how software … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: Community Literacies is a new series that builds on the legacy of Webmaker’s Hottest. Each issue, we share a new set of stories, prototypes and community creations that teach the web. Have an idea? Get in touch with … Continue reading
What’s happening this week The next Mozilla Science Lab online meeting will be this Thursday, June 12, at 11 am ET. As always, it is open to everyone. Find more details in this post Workshops Matthew Dimmock and Damien Irving … Continue reading
What’s happening this week The Mozilla Science Lab global sprint is getting more interesting every day. Titus Brown’s group is using their khmer project to introduce scientists to testing and code review using the “github workflow”. A group of people … Continue reading
