John Resig About Me
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Coder Day of Service John Resig About Me • Lots of Open Source work • jQuery, Processing.js, other projects! • Worked at Mozilla (Non-profit, Open Source) • Working at Khan Academy (Non-profit, free content, some Open Source) jQuery Beginnings • Library for making JavaScript easier to write. • Created it in 2005 • While I was in college! • I hated cross-browser inconsistencies • Also really dis-liked the DOM jQuery’s Growth • Released in 2006 • Slowly grew for many years • Started to explode in 2009 • Drupal, Microsoft, Wordpress, Adobe all use jQuery • Currently used by 70% of the top 10,000 web sites on the web. Full-time • From 2009 to 2011 got funding from Mozilla (my employer) • Worked on jQuery full-time! • Built up the jQuery Foundation (non-profit) Letting Go • Decided to step down to focus on building applications • Moved to Khan Academy! • jQuery Foundation runs everything now • They do a really good job :) Open Source/Open Data Tips Don’t be try to be perfect. Non-code things are just as important as code. Your community will mimic you. Benefits of Open Source/Open Data You use Open Source, why not give back? People will do projects you don’t have time for. You’ll attract interesting developers. ...which can lead to hiring good developers! Khan Academy Stats • 3 million problems practiced per day • 300 million lessons delivered • 100,000 educators around the world • 10 million students per month Khan API • Access to all data and user info • (with proper authentication) • You can access: • Videos + video data • All nicely organized • Exercise data • Student logs Data Analysis iPhone Application Exercises Exercises Exercise Racer Museums and Libraries Museums and Libraries • Cultural institutions • (Typically) Free for all • (Typically) Non-profits • They can use our help! Ukiyo-e.org Helping Public Institutions • Brooklyn Museum • New York Public Library • Digital Public Library of America • ...and many more! • All have public, free, open, APIs!.