Hi All, As an FYI I responded to Leslie. Of course all of you are welcome to as well.
-Kate On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Leslie Hawthorn <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
