Hungry Academy is Open Education
Posted January 05, 2012 by Jeff
The developer shortage is a serious problem. Hungry Academy is training developers for LivingSocial, but we’re doing much more than that.
If you want to learn what we’re learning, do what we’re doing – you’re invited.
We’ve always made our tutorials public under Creative Commons licenses, and Hungry Academy will maintain that trend. We’re publishing:
- Our classroom tutorials
- Our project assignments
- Our model programs
- The best of our participant’s projects
Cool? It keeps going. As part of the program, the participants will be creating weekly presentations on small topics, in the style of RailsCasts. Those presentations will be live streamed. The best of them will be posted weekly in video form. They’ll also have dedicated time for contributing to the open source, as is standard in the community.
All those things will be open in whatever form appropriate, up on Github, and we’d love your feedback, corrections, and additions. The only limitation on their use is “please don’t start a technical training company using our stuff” - MIT license for code, a CC-attribution-non-commercial license for text.
We’ll be using Ryan Bigg’s Forem for group discussion of projects and general problems/solutions. Most of that will be public, plus we’ll have a dedicated forum for anyone following along with us. You can support each other, and we’ll do our best to pitch in too.
We’re supporting the local DC community, and will host and teach CodeNow classes to expose high school students to the world of programming.
If you’re already a Ruby/Rails developer, we’d love to have you involved with supporting the public community. We’re coordinating one-on-one mentorships internally, and if there’s interest we could likely use the same tools/techniques to match external mentors and learners.
In the end, this is a social agenda. We want to grow the programming community. Join us. If you want to learn, we will make sure you have no excuse.
Of course, applications are still open for the Hungry Academy program itself. They close Monday, January 9th, so don’t delay.