August 2011
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LetGive--a platform for good
It has been a while since my last post, but I am thrilled to say that the delay was because of a rather tremendous life change. Between working with Developers for Good and being a part of the Hamptons Hackathon, I appeared on the radar of LetGive. LetGive is a startup that is creating a platform that allows mobile and web developers to seamlessly incorporate charitable giving into their...
July 2011
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Education--a universal good
I finished up my latest Girl Develop It class on PHP this week and next week I will be wrapping up the one on Android development. Each time I teach a class, for GDI or elsewhere, I always leave the class with an elevated sense of how capable we, humanity as a whole, could be with access to education.
In my classes, I teach programming to people, particularly women, who are uncomfortable with...
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Hamptons Hackathon for Humanity--a reflection
During what may have been the first all-female* hackathon in NY, fifteen people banded together to use technology to take on the global problem of human trafficking. We were programmers, designers, writers and researchers. We came from a variety of backgrounds. We had an array of skills. And we all came to donate the most precious resource we had, our time.
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Thoughts on Programming for Good
The problem with being a programmer who has a much deeper desire to create change than earn money is actually finding people to work for. Imagine a site that accepts applications from non profits to have work done and matches programmers who want to spend part (or all) of their time on lesser paying projects that matter?
Am I the only one who wants this?
This week I had a series of personal and...