[OH-announce] OpenHatch newsletter, April 2014

[Mike Linksvayer]

    OpenHatch newsletter, April 2014
    <http://openhatch.org/blog/2014/openhatch-newsletter-april-2014/>

April 30th, 2014
The @openhatch sprint team at #pycon! Next year I have to stay longer!!
<https://twitter.com/bugZPDX/status/455891395333484545>

Welcome to OpenHatch newsletter number 21.

Report on PyCon US 2014 forthcoming. Videos
<http://www.pyvideo.org/category/50/pycon-us-2014> feature many talks by
OpenHatch-related people and on OpenHatchy topics!

Free ebook How to get started with open source
<http://opensource.com/resources/how-get-started-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
<http://openhatch.org/blog/2014/teaching-open-source-at-umass-amherst/>
and Rutgers
<http://openhatch.org/blog/2014/teaching-open-source-at-rutgers-university/>.

Four Open Source Comes to Campus events were held this month, at George
Mason University <http://hackmason.org/openhatch/>, SUNY Stony Brook,
Northeastern Illinois University <http://chicago.openhatch.org/>, and
MIT <http://openhatch.mit.edu/>. Pictures and blog posts coming soon!
Next month is Hartnell College <http://hartnell.openhatch.org/> on May
3rd and UC-Davis <http://davis.openhatch.org/> 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
<http://openhatch.org/blog/2014/what-openhatch-has-taught-me/> from
asking and answering questions on our IRC channel.

Bruce Byfield writes in Linux Magazine on OpenHatch: Non-profit advises
projects, helps volunteers
<http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/OpenHatch> and The birth
of SpinachCon
<http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/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.
<https://plus.google.com/+PhilipDurbin/posts/PbtgTWgqQry>


      New projects in the OpenHatch volunteer opportunity finder

  * Blindspot <https://openhatch.org/projects/Blindspot>, “an accessible
    Windowless Windows desktop app, focussing on providing access to the
    Spotify service to blind or partially-sighted screen reader users”.
  * SCons <https://openhatch.org/projects/SCons>, “an improved,
    cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility”.
  * Oscar <http://openhatch.org/projects/Oscar>, “an open-source
    ecommerce framework for Django”.


      OpenHatchy but not OpenHatch things around the web

Community Data Science Workshops at UW
<http://networkcollectiv.es/2014/03/09/community-data-science-workshops/> —
“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
<https://plus.google.com/+AudreyTang/posts/gcymHuaxsru> transcript and
slides from talk by Audrey Tang.

Steve Klabnik on How to be an open source gardener
<http://words.steveklabnik.com/how-to-be-an-open-source-gardener>.

Rachel Nabors writes Of GitHub and Pull Requests (and comics)
<http://rachelnabors.com/2012/04/of-github-and-pull-requests-and-comics/>.

Bonnie Bogle on Women Who Code @Mapbox
<https://www.mapbox.com/blog/women-who-code-mapbox/>.

Julie Evans on not feeling guilty about not contributing to open source
<http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/04/26/i-dont-feel-guilty-about-not-contributing-to-open-source/>,
and when to contribute.

Also check out links submitted to /r/openhatch
<http://www.reddit.com/r/openhatch>, and add your finds!


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Thanks to Britta Gustafson and Shauna Gordon-McKeon for contributing to
this edition!

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