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"new computer school in Paris has been overwhelmed by some 60,000 applicants. The school, called 42, was founded by a telecom magnate who says the French education system is failing young people. His aim is to reduce France's shortage in computer programmers while giving those who've fallen by the wayside a new chance. In the hallways of 42, suitcases and sleeping bags are piled, and people are stretched out on mattresses in some of the corners. There are showers and dozens of colorful bath towels. Living here for the next month are some of the 4,000 potential students who already made the first cut by passing cognitive skill tests online. Now they have to clear another hurdle. They're thrown together and challenged with computer problems for 15 hours a day. Only 800 students will get a place, says 42′s director, Nicolas Sadirac."

I like this: "Mark Suster, Venture Capitalist, Angel investor & former entrepreneur. Votes by Eren Bali (CEO & Co-founder, Udemy), David King (Founder & CEO, Green Patch and Blippy), Tao Tao (Co-founder, GetYourGuide), Jessica Mah (Founder/CEO inDinero.com), Michael Wolfe (Founder & Entrepreneur -- Vontu, Kana, I/PRO, P...), (more) It obviously depends on stage.  I like to invest at the seed or A round.  My ideal team is simple: Assuming 6 people 1. 5 engineers 2. 1 CEO who doubles as head of product management 3. Nothing else But obviously I am open to other configurations.  The key important things are: - strong tech DNA - dominance of tech personnel relative to others - strong product focus on CEO I never invest in: - business people who outsource tech dev to 3rd parties ("to speed up time to market")"

"revIgniter is a Web Application Development Framework primarily modeled on CodeIgniter, Ellislab, Inc. This framework is a toolkit for people who build websites using LiveCode. It empowers you to develop web projects in a fraction of time compared to writing LiveCode code from scratch by providing a large number of code libraries addressing frequently needed tasks, as well as a straightforward interface and consequential pattern to access these libraries. revIgniter lets you creatively concentrate on your project by lessen the quantity of code required for a given task."

"Open Steps is an initiative from two young berliners Alex Corbi (spanish, software developer) and Margo Thierry (french, european politics) who decided to leave their daily lives in July 2013 and travel around the world for one year. The purpose of this journey was to meet people and organisations actively working in Open Knowledge related projects while divulging the principles behind this topic."

"Netflix has a really cool app that uses the same code base for running the UI on all devices: tablets, phones, smart TVs, DVD players, refrigerators, and cars. While most people have no idea, nor care, how the app is implemented, you'll be interested to know they can change the interface on the fly or conduct A/B testing to determine the optimal user interactions. The guts of decoding and streaming videos are delegated to the native layer for best performance, so it's a fast, seemingly native app, that really does provide the best of both worlds."

participatory Design dude in Malmo.

These are acquaintances. Some of the open projects can be good to team up with for the local OC fest.