I had the opportunity to attend Vancouver’s Hive Pop-Up on October 5 in British Columbia. Vancouver community recently joined the Hive Learning network, which is a global constellation of communities championing digital skills and web literacy through connected learning. It … Continue reading
Software Carpentry has been around for a long time, a labor of love of Greg Wilson and many others. With support from the Sloan Foundation, the Mozilla Science Lab has helped it to grow such that, in the past year, … Continue reading
On Oct. 23, more than 1 million people around the United States will take part in the 15th annual Lights On Afterschool campaign. It’s an effort lead by the Afterschool Alliance to celebrate afterschool programs and their important role in … Continue reading
At Webmaker, we’re experimenting with a method that allows people to log in without a password by using a handshake over email or text message instead. Our goal is to reduce the frustrations that come with password management for our … Continue reading
This is the seventh post in a series featuring interviews with the 2014 Mozilla Festival “Space Wranglers,” the curators of the many exciting programmatic tracks slated for this year’s Festival. For this edition, we chatted with Dave Steer, Alina Hua, … Continue reading
Shoutouts Many thanks to everyone who’s jumped on board with pull requests and comments in our new Code Review lesson, building off our pilot! Special thanks to SVAKSHA for being the first to PR this module with thoughts on documentation, … Continue reading
This Saturday, Oct 4th is the return of the infamous Scotiabank Nuit Blanche festival that will be taking over the downtown streetscape from sunset to sunrise. This year’s amazing line up of special and independent projects is well represented by … Continue reading
Our next community call will take place this Thursday, October 9. The call is open to the public and will start at 11:00 am ET. Call in details can be found on the call etherpad (where you can also find … Continue reading
At the Science Lab, we want to help research thrive on the open web. Part of this is working with other community members to build technical prototypes that move science on the web forward. Earlier this year we saw several … Continue reading
This is the sixth post in a series featuring interviews with the 2014 Mozilla Festival “Space Wranglers,” the curators of the many exciting programmatic tracks slated for this year’s Festival. For this edition, we chatted with Laurie Garrison, one of … Continue reading
