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Submission + - Call For OSS Projects Who Want New Developers (grad-dc.co.uk)

Submitted by kittylyst on Sunday March 07, 2010 @08:13AM

kittylyst writes: Open Source Jumpstart 2010 is a 1-day event being run by the London Graduate Development Community on April 17th at IBM South Bank in central London to provide an introduction to Open Source development for students and recent graduates. We're getting together a group of 60 students and helping them get started in contributing to Open Source — fixing bugs, writing code, improving docs and adding test cases. We're completely full (and wait-listed) for student places, but we have space for 1 or 2 more projects who would like to come and present, have the students work on project tasks for them, and hopefully get some enthusiastic new developers into their community. Our current roster of projects includes Apache Harmony, Tuscany and Aries, PHP, JRuby and several others. If you know of a project that would like to participate, and can send an experienced dev to London for the day, please get in touch. Full Disclosure: I'm one of the organizers of the event.

Submission + - Public Outcry Saves Major Astronomy Project (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by kittylyst on Monday February 02, 2009 @06:07AM

kittylyst writes: The esoteric details of how stars form and what gravitational lensing can tell us about Einstein's theories may not seem the stuff of impassioned public protest, but when the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank was threatened with closure last year, there was a national outcry. Now the revered observatory is about to begin a new era of exploration.

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