Keep Going: Code for Oakland Resources are Available

June 6, 2011 By Anca View Comments

For many of the winners of Code for Oakland, June will be a busy month working on apps.   Apps should be submitted to the Apps4Communities challenge by July 11th.

If you didn’t finish (or start your app) this past weekend, here are some resources that will help you keep going:

Free Hosting through July 11th at Arctic Fox Hosting

Arctic Fox Web HostingArctic Fox Hosting has provided several free hosting accounts for Code for Oakland participants.  If you don’t have a place to host your app, you can do it on a locally-provisioned development environment that runs a LAMP stack and is available immediately.  Contact Mike Gagnon ([email protected]) to get access to this environment.

Hack Nights at Tech Liminal, Every Wednesday at 7:30

Join fellow coders, designers, and hackers on Wednesday evenings to work on your app (or start a new one).  RSVP:  [email protected].

Tech Liminal is located at 268 14th Street (between Harrison and Alice).

 

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Volunteer to help out at Code for Oakland

May 18, 2011 By mernit View Comments

Want to get involved with Code for Oakland, but not sure what you’d do there? Consider becoming one of our CFO Volunteers!
The CFO team is looking for 12 or so smart, hard-working, responsible people to help out with critical tasks like:

  • manning the door
  • helping attendees navigate the building/rooms
  • manage the food/clean up between meals and snacks
  • help facilitate discussions
  • be a runner
  • ??

If you’d like to volunteer, fill out this form
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDZBa19OQkptYjliSlZzdm0xeUl1ZVE6MQ

Volunteers get a cool t-shirt at cost and we’ll buy you drinks, later. Really.

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