[Bradford] Fwd: [GMG-Devel] We're in Google Summer of Code and the GNOME Outreach Program for Women! It's official!

[David Carpenter]

Depending on how much coding he has done - it might be worth looking at:
http://www.codecademy.com/learn

I'm a bit sceptical at the best of times, but I think this is quite a
good resource.

I'm not sure what's available this side of the Pennines, but my
colleague in Manchester is involved in Young Rewired State, MadLab,
and code clubs, all of which will have young people specific
activities/coding/electronics based over the summer.

Google them and if they are of interest, then let me know if you need
an introduction - I suspect that remote participation is also an
option.

Cheers
David

On 10 April 2013 21:46, Paul Colley <pchcolley at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Dick (all)
>
> Initially when I saw this and the reference to students I hoped it might be
> applicable to my son who is only 17 and doing his A levels at the moment -
> but it looks crazy advanced (even tho he's a smart cookie). He's wanting to
> go to Lancaster Uni to do an MSc in ICT for Creative Industries (aiming
> high!) and hoping to maybe do something over the summer holidays this year -
> but this seems like a bridge too far with very little coding experience
> under his belt. Do you have any ideas of anything that might be applicable
> for someone a little earlier in his development - maybe some kind of work
> placement that might give him experience in the field that would put him in
> a more advantageous position when going for Uni interviews?
>
> Really appreciate any ideas from anyone out there. I know I'm his biased dad
> but he's a level-headed, motivated, fast learning young man and I'd like to
> find him something that would be cool and developmental.
>
> Thanks for giving this your consideration.
>
> Paul Colley
>
> From: Dick Thomas <xpd259 at gmail.com>
> To: Bradlug Mailing list <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 17:31
> Subject: [Bradford] Fwd: [GMG-Devel] We're in Google Summer of Code and the
> GNOME Outreach Program for Women! It's official!
>
> Any students on the mailing list looking for something to do this summer?
> mediagoblin has the chance to be an awesome piece of software
>
>
> Dick
>
>
> About.me http://about.me/dick.thomas
> Blog: http://www.xpd259.co.uk/
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>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber at dustycloud.org>
> Date: 9 April 2013 16:33
> Subject: [GMG-Devel] We're in Google Summer of Code and the GNOME Outreach
> Program for Women! It's official!
> To: MediaGoblin Devel <devel at mediagoblin.org>
>
>
> Hey all!
>
> I just wrote a blogpost that's worth getting excited about:
>   http://mediagoblin.org/news/opw-gsoc-2013.html
>
> That's right, we're participating in both OPW and GSoC!
>
> If you know students and/or any women who are interested in getting
> their feet wet with free software contributions in something like
> MediaGoblin, please encourage them to apply!
>
> This summer is gonna be awesome!
>  - Chris
>
> (PS: Thanks to those of you who signed up as mentors!)
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