Hello everyone, Apologies if this message is off-topic - pointers in the right direction much appreciated. I have been lurking for awhile but this message is my first post.
I am working with a volunteer team to create the first ever Open Source Day at the upcoming Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference. [0] On the final day of the conference, Saturday, 12 November 2011, we are inviting several humanitarian focused open source projects to send mentors and work with the attendees on coding projects as part of our Codeathon for Humanity. We would like to invite the Humanitarian Open Street Map team to participate if there's interest on your side. We are particularly interested in having HOT/OSM join us due to the conference attendees' interest in geo-related programming. To get an idea of what the Codeathon for Humanity will be like, you can take a look at information from last year's codeathon, which was only a four hour event with one project involved, the Sahana Software Foundation. [1] The Codeaathon for Humanity mailing list archives may also be useful. [2] Our goals for this year's Codeathon include: - introducing more people to using/programming open source software - give our attendees the opportunity to learn and collaborate together - help the humanitarian project participants recruit new contributors If you would be interested in participating, please contact me to follow up. In either case, thank you for all of your hard work for those in the greatest need through HOT. [0] - http://gracehopper.org [1] - http://gracehopper.org/2010/conference/open-source-track/#session6 and http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/GHC2010 [2] - http://groups.google.com/group/codeathon-for-humanity Best, LH -- Leslie Hawthorn Open Source Outreach Manager Oregon State University Open Source Lab http://identi.ca/lh http://twitter.com/lhawthorn _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
