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CodeRaising Boston is a 4-weekend hackathon bringing 8 teams of mentors and apprentices together to build cool nonprofit open-source software applications. Teams will meet at a venue to code each Saturday during the CodeRaising, with food and drinks provided. At the end of the CodeRaising, all 8 teams are expected to launch their applications to great fanfare. You can read more about it at CodeRaising.org.
Because one-weekend hackathons are often too short to produce applications substantial enough to have an afterlife. The short deadlines also create too much stress to let any serious mentoring happen. We want to redress both of these shortcomings with CodeRaising.
The goals of CodeRaising are:
- To give participants a fun, challenging software-building experience
- To help beginners learn by building real-world, hands-on projects
- To build neat and useful software that lives on as open source
To apply to participate, edit the Projects wiki page to list your project and your team.
Here is a list of suggested project ideas.
Mentoring in Open Source communities - What works and What doesn't by Esther Shindler.
Art of the Community by Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community Manager at Canonical. His book is published by O'Reilly and brings together over a decade of experience in growing, empowering, and leading communities to success.
Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel is about how to run a successful free software project. It's a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software.
What it means to be a hacker
The Hacker Chick's (Abby Fichtner) About Section
Julython - month-long programming competition that takes place in January and July.
Django Dash - 48 hour coding competition
Code Retreat - 1 day retreat to learn best practices in programming
CodeClub A nationwide network of volunteer-led after school coding clubs for children aged 9-11. Found via this Wired Magazine article
CharityJams is a regular code-jam in New York that works on RapidFTR.
Boston Startup School especially their Rampup program.
Lock ‘n Load: Learn to Code is a 12 hour Python class taught by Aaron White in Boston.
Launch Academy Become a software developer in 10 weeks. Instruction is Rails.
Apprentice.io Full-time apprentice for 3 months. Instruction is Rails.
Hacker School 3-month full-time school in New York
Hackbright Academy 10 week program for women in San Francisco.
Code Fellows 4 Week Rails Program in Seattle. Guarantees a job of $60K, or you get your money back. Django classes coming "later this year."
Lots more here: http://www.quora.com/Programming-Bootcamps/What-are-the-short-term-3-12mo-development-bootcamps-academies-around-the-world