HackBright Academy is legit. One of my friends is the Director of
Operations there and she is a bright professional programmer who is
passionate about teaching women--she is also mostly self taught and was a
teenaged mother! really cool stuff. Many of the students finish the
programming are getting some incredible offers from tech companies--really
cool salaries.
Anyway:
http://www.hackbrightacademy.com/moms_in_tech
Candidates should be:
* a mother
A former tech professional
Intending to return as a technically hands-on lead, manager, or director
*The application Deadline is 7/20 for the Facebook Sponsorship.
Hackbright AcademyHackbright Academy is an accelerated Computer Science and
Software Development school exclusively for women. The Hackbright Academy
Programming Fellowship is a training program designed to help women become
awesome programmers. We teach the fundamentals of modern web development,
then introduce our students to Silicon Valley companies looking to expand
their engineering teams.
Goals
- Our goals at Hackbright Academy are to be the best place to become a
software engineer and to help more women become software engineers. That’s
why Hackbright Academy is exclusively for women. It’s been quite the
journey so far! We’ve helped over 50 women break into the industry with
confidence, relationships, and skills that will last a lifetime. We’ve
worked with many great companies over the past year, and most recently,
we’ve begun working with Facebook.
- Facebook also cares deeply about helping more women succeed as
software engineers. Today, we’re excited to announce a special sponsorship
with Facebook for women who have taken a career break from tech — the Moms
in Tech Sponsorship.
- There are many women who have started successful careers in tech who
choose to put their career on hold to dedicate more time to their children
and families. When these women think about returning to work, we want to
help them lean back in to their careers with the most up-to-date skill set
and technical abilities. *The Facebook Moms in Tech Sponsorship will
cover the full $12,000 tuition to Hackbright* where these women will be
able to refresh their technical skills and learn entirely new ones so
they’re well-equipped to rejoin the workforce.
Passing this on from Brynne at Publet.
Marina
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Well hello there Sudo Room!
Publet is creating the publishing platform for narrative content on the
Web. We give storytellers the tools to be professional media companies and
power business models for narrative content (NYT's
Snowfall<http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunnel-creek>
is
just the beginning).
As a lead front end engineer at Publet, you’ll be coding a SaaS tool to
create responsive, multimedia publications for tablet, phone and desktop.
You'll be joining a team with stellar UX and HTML5/JS/CSS3 expertise and a
passion for giving the new generation of storytellers a seamless publishing
experience. Some skills you'll need include:
- Rock solid JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3 experience. AngularJS preferred.
- Familiarity building on Django templates.
- Clean visual aesthetic to translate best design practices for the
responsive web.
- Mastery of cross browser compatibility.
ADDITIONAL DETES:
Publet comes with all the risks, perks, and problem solving of a startup,
as well as the company of a world-class editorial, design and development
team. We write and design for national publications (FastCompany, The
Economist, Rolling Stone), officiate the Awesome
Foundation<http://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/chapters/sf>
, Escape from Alcatraz <http://www.escapefromalcatraztriathlon.com/> and teach
code to journalists<http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gotoplanb/for-journalism>.
We have fun and think big. Join us. Shoot me an email with a short note and
the projects, code or achievements that represent you best. The position
includes free in-office yoga and a salary between $60-$100K plus equity
based on experience and commitment. Plus, we're located at the convenient
location of 16th & Mission.
Email me: Brynne(a)publet.com
Learn more: Publet.com/jobs
> The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Global Voices Advocacy (GVA) are jointly seeking two interns to work from EFF’s offices in San Francisco for summer 2013. University students and recent graduates with excellent writing skills and a deep understanding of free expression, openness, and privacy on the global Internet are strongly encouraged to apply.
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> Responsibilities
> Interns will focus on individual cases of bloggers, hackers, and social media users facing threats of censorship, harassment, arrest, or worse because of their activities online. Interns will work on a variety of projects through which they will document and analyze these cases, developing a range of skills along the way. Interns will be charged with:
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> Updating existing content and developing new content for Threatened Voices, a crowdsourced platform that documents individual cases of harassment, arrest, imprisonment and other threats as they are experienced by netizens around the world;
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> Investigating networks to discover at-risk or threatened individuals across the world, including technologists working on combating censorship and surveillance.
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> Assisting with development of OnlineCensorship.org, a crowdsourced platform for instances of censorship on social networks.
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> Providing advocacy support for cases selected from Threatened Voices and OnlineCensorship.
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> Assisting with blog posts to be published on EFF’s Deeplinks blog and GVA’s site. Posts will cover topics such as developments in Internet policy, Internet censorship, netizen harassment, and legal cases pertaining to digital rights. Interns with country- or region-specific knowledge may be asked to develop more in-depth writing projects, undertake translation, or assist in creating contact networks among communities in their region.
> Skills sought
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> Although we will consider applicants with a range of knowledge and skills, we are particularly interested in those whose experience includes:
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> Persuasive writing
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> Digital rights advocacy
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> Data visualization and measurement tools
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> Interns will have opportunities to participate and contribute to organizational discussions and strategy sessions at both EFF and GVA.
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> Requirements and desired qualities
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> All applicants must demonstrate a commitment to using fact-based reporting to defend the exercise of human rights online. Other requirements include:
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> Knowledge of international Internet rights and human rights frameworks
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> Knowledge of politics and culture in countries outside North America
> and the EU, particularly those where netizens are routinely under threat
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> Proven writing skills
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> Attention to detail
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> Ability to conduct efficient, effective online research
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> Experience using information-sharing platforms and tools
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> Fluency or high proficiency in one or multiple foreign languages
> (particularly Arabic or Russian) is preferred but not required.
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> Details
> Interns will be asked to work 15 -20 hours per week, and to commit 10 -12 weeks (June – August, but this is flexible) to the project, depending on availability. Interns must be able to work most days from the offices of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. Internships are unpaid and, unfortunately, we are not currently able to sponsor visas.
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> Interested applicants should send a cover letter, resume, and two short writing samples (ideally 1,000 words or less) to ellery [at] globalvoicesonline [dot] org. Position open until filled. Any questions concerning the internship can also be sent to this address.
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