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From: Dan Rademacher <dan.r.rademacher(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:01 PM
Subject: [nerdsfornature] Jobs at Bay Nature! Headed to Stamen!
To: nerdsfornature(a)googlegroups.com
Hello Nerds!
First, big news that some of you already know: On August 1 I'll be crossing
the Bay to SF to join fellow Nerd for Nature Beth Schechter at Stamen
Design<http://stamen.com>.
I'll be their project manager helping them more efficiently and happily do
their magic, rockstar stuff. I'm super excited about that!
And also sad to be leaving Bay Nature <http://baynature.org> after almost
10 years.
But, hey, that means Bay Nature has not one but two job openings (what can
I say, my shoes are big!):
- A nature-loving, experienced journalist to be the full-time Editorial
Director
- A nature- and tech-loving nerd to be the part-time Tech and Data
Manager
Check out the postings here: http://baynature.org/about-us/jobs. That
includes everything you need to know, including salary range (which BN
likes to publish because, hey, why not be transparent about it?).
Share the listings with your friends (the really competent ones), send them
to your favorite local nerds and journos. Bring on the applicants!
All best,
Dan
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> Date: July 3, 2013, 10:53:56 AM PDT
> To: POLICYFELLOWS(a)LSW.NAS.EDU
> Subject: The National Academies' Christine Mirzayan S&T Policy Graduate Fellowship Program is NOW Accepting Applications for the January 2014 session
>
> We are pleased to announce that the National Academies is accepting applications for the January 2014 session of the Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program.
>
> The online application is available at:
>
> http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/policyfellows/index.htm
>
> We encourage you to share this information with qualified individuals.
> The Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program is designed to engage early career individuals in the analytical processes that inform U.S. science and technology policy. Fellows obtain the essential skills and knowledge needed to work in science and technology policy at the federal, state, or local levels. Fellows spend 12 weeks at the National Academies in Washington, DC learning about science and technology policy and the role that scientists and engineers play in advising the nation. Each year, applicants from around the world become part of a National Academies committee, board, or unit. Each fellow is assigned to a senior staff member who acts as his or her mentor. The mentor provides guidance and ensures that the fellow’s time is focused on substantive projects and activities within the fellow’s assigned unit. An immersive experience, the program is designed to broaden fellows’ appreciation of employment opportunities outside academia and leave them with both a firm grasp of the important and dynamic role of science and technology in decision-making and a better understanding of the role that they can play in strengthening the science and technology enterprise for the betterment of mankind.
>
> General fellowship information may be found below. Additional information may be found at:
>
> http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/policyfellows/index.htm
>
>
> 1. Application Deadline
> Applications are due September 5, 2013.
>
> 2. Selection of Candidates
> Successful applicants will be notified in late October 2013.
>
> 3. Class Size
> The session can accommodate up to 26 individuals.
>
> 4. Stipend
> The stipend for the fellowship period is $8500.
>
> 5. Term
> The fellowship term is 12 weeks. The January 2014 session will commence on January 21, 2014 and end on April 11, 2014.
>
> 6. Fellows’ Orientation
> Mandatory program orientation will be conducted from Tuesday, January 21 to Friday, 24, 2014.
>
> Program Office
> The National Academies Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship
> 500 Fifth Street, NW
> Washington, DC 20001
> Telephone: 202-334-2455
> Fax: 202-334-1667
> E-mail: policyfellows(a)nas.edu
> Visit us on the web at: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/policyfellows
>
>
Hi,
I am working in a digital agency in Oakland downtown and my coworkers and I
need a quick training on the basics of Photoshop.
It will be probably 2 hours lesson in our space.
Do you know anyone that could be interested?
Best,
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
____________________________________________
*
*
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.
>
> 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:
>
> 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;
>
> Investigating networks to discover at-risk or threatened individuals across the world, including technologists working on combating censorship and surveillance.
>
> Assisting with development of OnlineCensorship.org, a crowdsourced platform for instances of censorship on social networks.
>
> Providing advocacy support for cases selected from Threatened Voices and OnlineCensorship.
>
> 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
>
> Although we will consider applicants with a range of knowledge and skills, we are particularly interested in those whose experience includes:
>
> Persuasive writing
>
> Digital rights advocacy
>
> Data visualization and measurement tools
>
> Interns will have opportunities to participate and contribute to organizational discussions and strategy sessions at both EFF and GVA.
>
> Requirements and desired qualities
>
> All applicants must demonstrate a commitment to using fact-based reporting to defend the exercise of human rights online. Other requirements include:
>
> Knowledge of international Internet rights and human rights frameworks
>
> Knowledge of politics and culture in countries outside North America
> and the EU, particularly those where netizens are routinely under threat
>
> Proven writing skills
>
> Attention to detail
>
> Ability to conduct efficient, effective online research
>
> Experience using information-sharing platforms and tools
>
> Fluency or high proficiency in one or multiple foreign languages
> (particularly Arabic or Russian) is preferred but not required.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
Hi all,
I recently started working the communications front for a super rad startup
called Open Garden. Essentially, OG is a mobile broadband network that uses
p2p mesh technology to provide internet connectivity between smartphones,
laptops and tablets.
Last night I hopped on a call with some folks in India who run a nonprofit
to help rural farmers tackle problems like soil testing, crop planning,
seed recommendation, etc; They're planning to install Open Garden on their
Android tablets and phones, pooling local networks of 2G and occasionally
3G mobile data to provide internet connectivity to the tablets.
It's a great team doing exciting work. Hit me up if you'd like to hear
more, or check out the link below. And btw, if you're looking for work and
want to hear about more opportunities, join the sudo-jobs mailing list
here: http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-jobs
>From the call-out (https://opengarden.com/careers.html):
*Qualifications*
* Minimum 5 years of experience with network programming in C
* Minimum BA in CS or another technical field
* Demonstrated ability to write complex network code: e.g., a
high-performance event loop
* Experience in implementing a protocol specification, e.g., an RFC*
*
* Additional pluses *
* Experience with startup environment
* Contributing or leading protocol development, e.g., co-authorship or lead
authorship of IETF drafts or another form of specification
* Experience with peer-to-peer systems
* Experience with mobile development
* Being based in or near San Francisco
* Contributions to open-source projects
* Knowledge of Objective C, Java, or Ruby
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Be well,
Jenny
http://jennyryan.nethttp://thepyre.orghttp://thevirtualcampfire.orghttp://technomadic.tumblr.com
`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
-Laurie Anderson
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
-Hannah Arendt
"To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
-Stéphane Mallarmé
~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
https://www.eff.org/opportunities/jobs/web-developer-hypertext-hacker
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit civil liberties
organization based in San Francisco, is seeking a full-time programmer to
help build web applications that protect and promote civil liberties in the
digital world. The Web Developer will be responsible for improving and
maintaining EFF's existing websites, creating new activism campaign sites
and web projects, writing code to integrate with our CiviCRM database, and
making sure things scale when our campaigns go viral. We'll also be
counting on your creative ideas for future web projects.
EFF's web projects include content-oriented sites like EFF.org and
Surveillance Self-Defense; activism campaign sites like the Open Wireless
Movement, Defend Innovation, and Jailbreaking Is Not a Crime; our growing
online database of FOIA documents; traffic-heavy petitions that fight
legislation like SOPA and CISPA; cutting-edge, creative tools for Internet
users to take action for digital rights you'll develop for EFF's new Action
Center; and web-centric liberty-enhancing projects like Panopticlick, HTTPS
Everywhere and the SSL Observatory. You'll have opportunities to build new
free software for the open web and contribute patches to existing software
that we rely on.
Requirements:
- Passion for using web technology to fight for online free speech,
innovation and privacy
- Working knowledge of the complete web application stack (application,
databases and operating systems)
- Very fluent in JavaScript and at least one major server-side
application language (PHP preferred but not mandatory)
- Ability to write custom web applications on demand
- Good knowledge of computer security, and especially web security
- Linux command line operations and shell scripting
- Ability to work with remote APIs and efficiently integrate them into
web apps
- Working knowledge of git or similar version control software
- Appreciation of the power of good UI design and an interest in
wielding it
- Strong oral communication skills and enthusiasm to support and
collaborate with multiple teams around the organization
- Ability to prioritize and multitask in a workplace where many things
are happening at once
Would be great:
- Comfortable enough with contemporary front-end web development (HTML5,
CSS3) for building attractive user interfaces
- Knowledge of Drupal and writing Drupal modules
- Knowledge of CiviCRM development
- Experience working with Salsa Labs
- Familiarity with Python
- QA/testing tools and test-driven development
- Experience with caching or CDNs
This is a full-time position based in EFF's office in San Francisco, CA.
Salary is negotiable depending on experience, and includes an excellent
benefits package. To apply, send a cover letter and your resume with links
to some samples of your work to techjobs(a)eff.org. Please send these
materials in a non-proprietary format. No phone calls please.
https://www.eff.org/opportunities/jobs/web-developer-hypertext-hacker