Code for Progress

Code for Progress updated their business hours.

Check out Code for Progress Community Learning Series Alum, Larry Williams Jr's UnionBase - brining digital innovation to the labor movement: https://www.ecnmy.org/engage/we-spoke-to-the-guy-whos-trying-to-bring-unions-into-the-21st-century/

We spoke to the guy who's trying to bring unions into the 21st century “The limits of the labor movement don’t make sense to my generation”

JOB POSTING: Our amazing friends at Fugue DC are seeking a Senior Web Engineer. Great place to work. Please apply if interested and help spread the word!

https://fugue.co/careers/551217/

Senior Web Engineer Fugue builds, optimizes, and enforces cloud infrastructure, continuously and automatically. Declare your cloud. Let Fugue automate the rest.

The film Hidden Figures is inspiring a new generation of young female coders of color.

'Hidden Figures' A Hit With Young Women Of Color Interested in STEM The film Hidden Figures is inspiring a new generation of young female coders of color. NPR checks in with some teenagers who like the movie.

We had a front end workshop this week taught by Andrew M. & Leslie L. from Fugue DC! Learning React and Javascript. Grateful for volunteers.

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"Stuck in the Shallow End is a story of how inequality is reproduced in America—and how students and teachers, given the necessary tools, can change the system."

Stuck in the Shallow End An investigation into why so few African American and Latino high school students are studying computer science reveals the dynamics of inequality in American schools.

Reflection of breakthrough technologies of 2016.

Have our most important new technologies made any headway? Find out how new ideas like reusable rockets, immune engineering, and Tesla’s Autopilot have progressed.

Click here to support Help launch Tightshift Laboring Cooperative!

http://www.recode.net/2016/12/1/13805948/first-round-capital-founders-survey-2016-diversity-problem-tech

More than 80 percent of tech founders still have no formal plans to promote diversity And that’s a problem.

"It’s okay to not know everything.
Just go for it.
Don’t be afraid."

We had 2 guest speakers visit CFP recently: Danielle Cummings & Rose Robinson from Black Women in Computing! Thank you so much for your work!

DC just set an ambitious goal to become the No. 1 city for 'inclusive innovation' - Technical.ly DC And Mayor Bowser's administration has some ideas for how to get there. It's all laid out in the city's first ever “Inclusive Innovation Report.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-medal-of-freedom-margaret-hamilton-grace-hopper/

White House honors two of tech's female pioneers Medal of Freedom is being awarded to female tech pioneers Margaret Hamilton and Grace Hopper by President Obama

We had a great time visiting the amazing workspace of iStrategyLabs DC! Thank you to Marina, CJ, Natalia, Cornelieus and the rest of the team for showing us the work that you all do!

Tech Innovation + Inclusion Summit DC TechUP connects diverse tech talent with companies who believe diversity is an advantage, and that inclusive teams are stronger, smarter, and better. TechUP intentionally recruits badass, underrepresented and strikingly talented tech professionals with a variety of skills. We especially seek women,…

Social Movement Technologies is offering matching grants of $3,000 to organizing groups and $10,000 to organizing networks and coalitions for the purpose of significantly ramping up their online organizing in 2017. These grants pay for half the cost of SMT staff time to work with the organization over 6-9 months during 2017. Funding is available for up to 15 grants of $3,000 each, and up to 2 grants of $10,000 each.

2017 Matching Grants to Ramp Up Online Organizing! - Social Movement Technologies SMT is offering matching grants of $3,000 to organizing groups and $10,000 to organizing networks and coalitions for the purpose of significantly ramping up their online organizing in 2017. These grants pay for half…

BUILDING AND LEARNING:

The fellows are building a field communication tool that utilizes SMS, hybrid of text messages, and web messages. It's pretty cool. And a work in progress. The deadline for this app is this Friday! This project is for Get Out the Vote! in Philly.

Do you know what tomorrow is????
The Code for Progress Hack night! That's right. Come hang out, meet new people, and share ideas for collaborations and projects. All are welcome. No RSVP necessary. Come for as little or as long as you want.

When: Wednesday, Oct. 26th 6:00pm-8:00pm
What: Having fun, hacking, sharing, creating, hanging out.
Where: Code for Progress Office in Dupont Circle: 1726 Connecticut Ave NW #400, Washington, DC 20009
Who: All are welcome, no prior experience in programming is necessary.
Why: Why not? Let's build together.

Hope to see you there!

"Code Next will work with 70 eighth-grade students in Oakland and 70 at its location in Harlem, which is set to open in 2017. Until then, students in New York will able to attend classes at Google’s NYC headquarters.

Through Code Next’s curriculum, which was developed in partnership with MIT Media Lab, students will be able to learn how to code, participate in hands-on activities and expose themselves to computer language processing in after-school and weekend programs."

Code Next: a commitment to cultivating young Black and Hispanic tech leaders Code Next connects computer science to students’ everyday lives through projects like designing and programming a robot or 3D printing an Android chess set.

The free four week long community learning series is well underway!

We are in the second week of teaching and learning the Fundamentals of Programming at the Code for Progress space. We are focusing on python.

Interested in learning code and meeting others who share similar interests? Join us for our hack nights! We meet every other Wednesday from 6-8p.m at the Code for Progress office in Dupont. Next one is October 26th!

We visited the offices at Mapbox DC yesterday!
Map box is an open source mapping platform for developers. We heard from the security team, cartographers, and learned about geocoding, open street map, Mapnik, Mapbox GL, and Mapbox Platform.

These site visits are a way for the fellows to see what careers and opportunities are possible in tech as well as to build community with local DC tech organizations.

Huge thank you to Julianne BG, Marissa F, and the amazing team at Mapbox for a fun and informative visit .

"As Lovelace notes, the act of putting problems into code.... would inevitably lead to new ways of thinking about those problems, mathematical or otherwise, and ultimately to new solutions and understandings of whatever science comes under this influence"

Stretch Your Mind: Code - DML Central If everyone learns to code, they won’t necessarily all become rich, but they might all begin to see the world in different, beneficial ways.

This week we visited the headquarters of Vox Media in DC! Thank you Ashley T. and the rest of the Vox team for the wonderful visit and speaking with the group about the work that you all do everyday. We learned about the eight editorial brands of Vox including: SB Nation, The Verge, Polygon, Curbed, Eater, Racked, Vox and Recode. We also got a chance to hear from three web developers speak about "A day in the life at Vox." Super informative and helpful. The team, the work, and the offices at Vox are awesome. We really enjoyed our time.

Thank you so much!

We are bringing back HACKnights! Please join us at the Code for Progress workspace in Dupont Circle for a fun evening of hacking and socializing.

First hack night is TOMORROW!
Wednesday October 12th at 6pm!
RSVP at the link below!

We hope to see you!
http://meetu.ps/e/C4ZnG/vv5Yg/f

Code For Progress Web Programming Meetup Join us at Code for Progress for a fun night of hacking, hanging out, building cool stuff and learning new things. 6:00 - 6:15pm Participants arrive and socialize. 6:15 - 6:30pm Group introductions an

Principles for transparency and accountability in the U.S. presidential transition (Photo credit: White House Photographer Eric Draper/Wikimedia Commons) Making the transition between administrations more open, transparent and accountable is a critical goal that transcends partisan politics. All Americans have a stake in ensuring a peaceful, efficient and effective transition proc...

This week we visited Catalist in DC. We got to hear from Kemi Oso, Code for Progress alum and now Data Ops Engineer at Catalist, present on the work that she does everyday. Thank you Kemi for the awesome presentation on your work!

This place is incredible and we felt so invited. Huge thank you to CTO Tajh Taylor, Brad Lippeman, and the team at Catalist for giving us such great insight into the work that you all do around progressive campaigns, voter registration data, and more.

So, so relevant right now especially in light of the recent Presidential debate.
THANK YOU!!!

We had a guest speaker come to the Code for Progress space! Thank you to Jess Garson for coming to speak to the fellows on "Debugging"!

Notes from Jess:

"Write code, talk about it, make mistakes, talk about how you make those mistakes. Be immersed in the tech community, go to conferences."

And: "Debugging is hard. But, you can do it!"

Thank you, Jess!!!

Thank you to all of you who have expressed an interest in attending the Introduction to Programming course!

Update: This course is currently full. Thank you!!

Good news: we will be offering an additional Introduction to Programming in the next few months.

We will be sending out emails soon for further details to those who have filled out the Google form.

Excited to work and learn with you all. :)