OpenHatch newsletter, April 2014
Welcome to OpenHatch newsletter number 21.
Report on PyCon US 2014 forthcoming. Videos feature many talks by OpenHatch-related people and on OpenHatchy topics!
Free ebook How to get started with open source includes a chapter on Open Source Comes to Campus Q&A by Shauna Gordon-McKeon.
Reports on Open Source Comes to Campus events recently held at UMass Amherst and Rutgers.
Four Open Source Comes to Campus events were held this month, at George Mason University, SUNY Stony Brook, Northeastern Illinois University, and MIT. Pictures and blog posts coming soon! Next month is Hartnell College on May 3rd and UC-Davis on May 10th. There’s still room for students and mentors at both! Click the links to sign up.
OpenHatch participant Kyzz wrote about what he has learned from asking and answering questions on our IRC channel.
Bruce Byfield writes in Linux Magazine on OpenHatch: Non-profit advises projects, helps volunteers and The birth of SpinachCon.
Philip Durbin attended the recent OpenHatch event at MIT, found out about AppInventor, and his 7 year old just made her first app.
New projects in the OpenHatch volunteer opportunity finder
- Blindspot, “an accessible Windowless Windows desktop app, focussing on providing access to the Spotify service to blind or partially-sighted screen reader users”.
- SCons, “an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility”.
- Oscar, “an open-source ecommerce framework for Django”.
OpenHatchy but not OpenHatch things around the web
Community Data Science Workshops at UW — “designed with lots of help and inspiration from Shauna Gordon-McKeon and Asheesh Laroia of OpenHatch and lots of inspiration from the Boston Python Workshop.”
Programming Languages and RailsGirls.tw transcript and slides from talk by Audrey Tang.
Steve Klabnik on How to be an open source gardener.
Rachel Nabors writes Of GitHub and Pull Requests (and comics).
Bonnie Bogle on Women Who Code @Mapbox.
Julie Evans on not feeling guilty about not contributing to open source, and when to contribute.
Also check out links submitted to /r/openhatch, and add your finds!
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Thanks to Britta Gustafson and Shauna Gordon-McKeon for contributing to this edition!