Summer of Making: a temporary rewards program sponsored by GitHub to get minors to make coding projects (summer.hack.club)
from Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to programming@programming.dev on 01 Aug 20:09
https://kbin.melroy.org/m/programming@programming.dev/t/1096974

prizes include 11 hours for the Smolhaj, 5 hours for a 128gb thumb drive, 3 hours for Geometry Dash, and 21 hours for 6 months of Mullvad. like i said it’s just like a rewards program lol

#beermoney #programming #rewards

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loveknight@programming.dev on 01 Aug 20:39 next collapse

“The only requirement is that you share your progress and log your hours.” So participants are free to choose how they log their hours?

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org on 02 Aug 02:49 collapse

there's a tool called wakatime that many editors offer† as an extension, and you have to write a blog post every 10 hours, which the organizers will review along with the projects mentioned

† meaning it's on the editor's extension marketplace

Havatra@lemmy.zip on 01 Aug 21:16 next collapse

This is super cool! I’d love having something like this when I was a kid! I’ll see if I can find some kids I know to take a look at this, and I’m confident they’ll have a blast!

Sxan@piefed.zip on 01 Aug 23:12 collapse

"So we can further train CoPilot on projects of people who can't sue us."

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org on 02 Aug 02:49 collapse

the projects don't have to e hosted on github

Sxan@piefed.zip on 02 Aug 08:33 collapse

Which makes me wonder if github trains Copilot on projects on oðer hosting services.

The only requirement is that you share your progress...

Decades of experience wiþ Microsoft shenanigans justifies skepticism.

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org on 02 Aug 15:40 collapse

I don't think stopping anyone from working on anything is the way to combat the AI problem. It's not like this event's requirements somehow disproportionately makes projects easier for AI to train on.