So once again another random twitter comment lead to an amazing mentoring experience. I saw a random tweet whilst sitting in an apartment room in Belltown Seattle from a friend sitting in Sydney who retweeted one of his friends who needed help with mentoring for an Apps Camp for Girls being ran in Seattle. Of course we all knows what followed because well im involved in the story, so the next step was me volunteering…
“So as I have been known to I answered a call out on twitter for help with the first OSCON Kids Day. They needed someone to teach the Python class, so as I do I said sure no worries here is my credentials. I was pretty excited to partake in this event for a couple of reasons, I have always wanted to attend OSCON and this would be my first one, this would be my…
So yesterday was my first day at doing the Mozilla Teach the Web course… We had a live video session followed by a twitter chat [ see hashtag #teachtheweb ] and were left with a list of cool things to make using the Mozilla online resources… So what did I do? I started with signing up to Mozilla Badges, I had known about this project for awhile but just not yet had time to play.…
10 to 12 August So the week was a success and the teams headed down to Birmingham to present there ideas. The Friday was spent locked up in rooms practicing their presentations and then finally presenting to a group of judges who would pick the winners for the Saturday presentation. The Saturday presentation was huge there was about 500 people or more packed into the hall which was lit up with amazing sculptures and LED lighting effects. The winners…
So my good friend Steve from Rewired Australia pinged me and told me about Young Rewired State in the UK and how it would be on whilst I was over here. I got onto my email and contacted the team and asked how I could help. There was a spot at the Mozilla HQ which was awesome I love that place it is filled with geekiness and awesome people with a huge chillout space and…