CottageIndustries

09/09/2016

Happy Birthday,
Open Source operating systems!

25 years ago this week, a college student in Finland shared his project on an email list:

09/06/2016

Friends At HackerRank on a tear...
Market and ethics... = ]

Check them out!

"The HackerRank team is on a mission to flatten the world by restructuring the DNA of every company on the planet.

We rank programmers based on their coding skills, helping companies source great programmers and reduce the time to hire. As a result, we are revolutionizing the way companies discover and evaluate talented engineers. The HackerRank platform is the destination for the best engineers to hone their skills and companies to find top engineers."

https://www.hackerrank.com/aboutus

07/09/2016

A student left this note outside the school where Philando Castile worked. (Photo: Ben Garvin)

04/07/2016

Red wrigglers arrived! Cottage now has indoor year-round worm composting! Thank you, Janet Brown and Eisenia fetida (species of worm friends). :)

01/22/2016

Real democracy is informed.
By definition.

Thanks Issac. :)

And it's getting really, really old ...

01/15/2016

Finally, technology used for... nope, still need to re-proritize.

Google shows us what the world will look like at tonight's GOP debate through Trump's eyes.

09/06/2015

CottageIndustries: A creative safe-haven for learners, dreamers, thinkers, and tinkerers who've found themselves clashing with our current education paradigm. It is a space to help youth (and non-traditional learners in general) unblock their potential, rediscover their agency, deepen connections with the communities they live within - inspired by the projects of those in the space.

Through exploratory and open source educational culture, learners have an opportunity to develop employable skills out of productive play, and exploratory skills via actually having a say.

(And, if interested, learn to make piles of bucks - a small portion of which maintains the growth of the platform). :)