Lightning Talk: Developing Developers

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Proposal launches a grassroots apprenticeship called growing programmers with a public Google group and a commitment to take one unpaid apprentice who must not currently have a job developing software and must be willing to mentor somebody else as part of a lineage model. Requirements include driving one’s own education and asking focused questions. A children mentoring list exists for school outreach and Living Social is hiring in Boulder.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:05Developing Developers @mikgehard
3. 0:25What are you going to do about it?
4. 1:43What am I going to do about it?
5. 1:57a job developing software
6. 2:50All pre-requisites apply to any other apprentices in the lineage

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