$10k Software Dev Grant Open up Connect with (pr05)

The Processing Basis is enthusiastic to announce pr05 (pronounced “pros”), a new grant and mentorship initiative by the Processing Basis designed to assist the qualified advancement of early to mid-profession application developers by way of hands-on involvement in open up-source initiatives.

This is a distinctive possibility to increase as a developer when creating a tangible effect on software initiatives applied by tens of millions of creatives, artists, educators, and learners globally.

The Processing Foundation is a nonprofit focused to marketing application studying in just the arts, and inventive finding out inside technologies-linked fields.

Their initiatives also aim to celebrate the various communities that make these fields lively, liberatory, and modern.

Thematic Areas

Participants will choose from a predefined record of tasks that can be accomplished underneath mentorship. In the spirit of their to start with program’s theme ‘New Beginnings’, they have assembled a curated record of assignments picked for their probable to solidify and broaden the foundations of Processing and p5.js. Each job will be mentored by a developer/contributor experienced in this distinct region.

  • Simplify the Workflow for Processing Libraries, Equipment, and Modes
  • Produce an Official Processing VSCode Extension
  • Prototype a Collaborative Desktop Editor for Processing
  • Revamp the Friendly Mistake Technique (FES) for p5.js 2.
  • Update CodeMirror to Variation 6 for the p5.js Editor

Benefits of Participation

  • A full of five candidates will be invited to sign up for their 2024 cohort. Picked candidates will receive a $10,000 stipend to make it possible for them to spend 200 hours over a period of time of 4 months on their contributions.
  • They also get accessibility to the Processing Foundation’s network of developers, artists, designers, activists, educators, engineers, researchers, and collectives to collaborate and trade throughout and after the completion of their project.
  • Mentors are assigned to each and every Grantee. Mentors are knowledgeable software program experts and/or core contributors from the Processing and p5.js communities. The job of mentors is to give advice (resourceful, technological, and skilled), as effectively as serve as an advocate for the grantee’s get the job done. Grantees are predicted to take part in regular digital meetings with their mentor.

Who can Implement?

  • If you are an early to mid-job programmer, coder, developer, or software package engineer and are psyched about contributing to open up-supply tasks, this method is for you. Their objective is to develop a various cohort of members committed to boosting the Processing and p5.js ecosystems, when enriching their professional journey.
  • Open to U.S.-dependent and global candidates. Only a person software per person. Groups, collectives, and companies can’t apply as the grant is offered to folks.
  • They specially really encourage applications by people today from communities traditionally underrepresented or marginalized in tech fields due to race, gender, class, sexuality, immigration/documentation standing, age, geographical location, and/or disability. Their goal is to assemble a group of grantees that displays international diversity and delivers a wide variety of views to enhancement get the job done.
How to Use

Click here to utilize. The deadline for software is Friday, Could 31, 2024.


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