OpenHatch newsletter, June 2013
Welcome to OpenHatch newsletter number 11.
PSF funds OpenHatch to reach out to and help Python user groups:
Are you a Python user group organizer or member? Do you want more people, and a more diverse set of people, to show up to your user group events? Email us at hello@openhatch.org! The Python Software Foundation and open source outreach nonprofit OpenHatch want to help.
Our 10th Open Source Comes to Campus event was held June 22nd at Northeastern University:
Thanks to our our Northeastern hosts, who opened their doors to area students, we had sign ups from almost a dozen additional schools, including: Boston University, UMass Boston, Wellesley, Harvard, MIT, Brandeis, Babson, Mt Holyoke, Colby and even students from CSU-Sacramento and Valencia College in Florida.
July 29 OSCtC will be at City College of San Francisco.
Another set of very interesting but Infrequently Asked Questions, these from UMass Amherst Open Source Comes to Campus.
Our Executive Director Asheesh Laroia gave multiple talkes at Open Source Bridge earlier this month. See his speaker’s page for a list, and materials from previous years.
OpenHatch’s Shauna Gordon-McKeon and Karen Rustad attended AdaCamp, a two-day unconference for women in open technology and culture. Shauna attended with the help of a travel scholarship graciously provided by the Ada Initiative. She led a workshop on contributing to open source projects, attended sessions on open science, open government, and teaching open source, and generally had a blast meeting tons of smart, passionate women involved in open culture.
In July at OSCON Asheesh Laroia will be giving a talk on quantitative community management, and another on web scraping.
OpenHatchy but not OpenHatch things around the web
Sarah Sharp updates on the Outreach Program for Women Linux Kernel Internships:
A month ago, Amanda McPherson and Greg Kroah-Hartman from the Linux Foundation asked me to coordinate an internship program aimed at getting more women to participate in the Linux kernel. In order to be considered for an internship, the applicants need to submit patches to the Linux kernel, and get them accepted. The results have been amazing: 41 women applied for 6 Linux kernel internships. In 13 days, 374 patches were submitted, and 137 patches were accepted.
Emily O’Leary on Inclusivity in Free Software, with good examples to follow.
Applications for 2014 Code for America Fellowships are due July 31. A great opportunity to learn and teach about open source in government.
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