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Big Projects Watch's goal is to support the civic oversight of big - often publicly funded - projects by providing a way to frame the complex structure of a project and model its particpants, central parts of the projects, main events and the interconnections between these entities.
- Example site: https://ber.piratenfraktion-berlin.de/
- Docs: http://django-big-projects-watch.readthedocs.org
- Code: https://github.com/holgerd77/django-big-projects-watch
Interactive Somerville is a way for you to connect with other residents and workers across Somerville by sharing your ideas, photos, videos, meeting notes, drawings, and articles.
- Example site: http://interactivesomerville.org/
- Code: https://github.com/SomervilleCC/interactivesomerville
Invite friends to donate a randomly selected amount (up to $10) to charity and one lucky winner will receive something awesome from Amazon. Makes use of the Stripe Connect API.
- Example site: http://donationparty.com
- Code: https://github.com/samuelclay/donationparty
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.
Julython - month-long programming competition that takes place in January and July.
Django Dash - 48 hour coding competition
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."
ID Hack 28 Hour Hackathon hosted in Boston. NGOs pitch international development projects to hackers who then compete for prizes.
Lots more here: http://www.quora.com/Programming-Bootcamps/What-are-the-short-term-3-12mo-development-bootcamps-academies-around-the-world