[Events] Open source career taster days in London, May 13, 20, & 28

[Sumana Harihareswara]

http://www.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/50183

"A series of three one day workshops for women returners aimed at
raising awareness of Open Source development as a dual skillset or
second career."

Cost: £10 plus VAT @ 20%, per day, to include lunch and refreshments.

"The course will aim to build awareness and confidence and help women
take some first steps either towards learning to code or to update
existing skills and to learn how they might contribute to Open Source
projects. It will aim to raise awareness of self-training opportunities
and of Open Source career paths and entry points."

Flossie & Fossbox are copresenting this.  Topics include "Introduction
to FLOSS culture and licensing models," introductions to Git and Python,
and:

"How are Open Source projects organised? Brief overview of development
roles (feedback, support, bug reporting, new feature requests,
writing/updating software/creating artwork/documentation/translation).
Introduction to development methods: test driven, agile"

Promising!  Please spread the word to women in England whom you know?
-- 
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation