User:Vtaylor/CIS89A Learning Web Design/Community service
There are plenty of community organizations that depend on the support of volunteers. Many are now looking to online volunteering as a way to continue their important work in the communities they serve.
For DeAnza CIS students, there are a number of organization with open source software development projects that can be completed in just a few hours. These are beneficial to the organization and can provide great real-world development opportunities for students (and graduates).
Oppia - an online learning tool that enables anyone to easily create and share interactive activities. These activities, called explorations, simulate a one-on-one conversation with an intelligent tutor. You can try a hosted version at Oppia.org. . Overview . Contributors and users information . Developer documentation - include information on using GitHub for managing code contributions
BRL-cad - BRL-CAD is a powerful open source cross-platform solid modeling system that includes interactive geometry editing, high-performance ray-tracing for rendering and geometric analysis, a system performance analysis benchmark suite, geometry libraries for application developers, and more than 30 years of active development. .
Projects - Coding-centric set we used for last GCI is at https://brlcad.org/gci/2019/tasks/ and another general audience set is at https://brlcad.org/wiki/Deuces. The tasks change up and get added regularly (listing everything is intimidating). Variety of difficulties and skills and not just coding tasks, but all are scoped around 2-4 hours of time for someone fully set up, experienced. That means they are tasks that’ll take the average newbie anywhere from a day to a week when you add in setup, discovery, and skill.
Google Next Billion Users - Google is working to expand access to information and build products that help people unlock economic opportunity around the world. We invite technology builders to use our development and design tools to create more inclusive products..
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