HOT LINKS
Ben: Jenn Schiffer's essay about not policing code ecosystems makes a good point: it's not a good thing for coders or for code ecosystems if people get chased out for not meeting some arbitrary bar of worthiness.
Julia: The Schools of Journalism dives into the varying communities in the journalism industry, the “interesting” times we live in, and ways to approach the future.
Kay: An incredibly inspiring coder.
RC: The guy who invented those annoying password rules now regrets wasting your time.
Inndy: The Internet Archive is posting digitized 78prm records, and there are now a couple of Tweetbots: @great78project posts every 10 minutes; @78_sampler posts every 2 hours.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
No Office Hours next week — we're all attending WordCamp for Journalists in Denver. If you're in town, come say hi 👋 – and be sure to join us for Contributor Day on Saturday, 8/19, to work on the next Largo release!
WE MADE A THING
We’ve collected a partial list of sites using Largo in the wiki on INN/Largo. If you know a site that's not in the list, let us know!
EVENTS/DEADLINES
August 17-19: WordCamp for Publishers.
August 18: Last day to apply for the Poynter-NABJ Leadership Academy for Diversity in Digital Media.
September 29: Last day to apply for a Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowship.
SHOUT OUT
Reveal's "What makes a sanctuary?" compares policies between different sanctuary cities and states.
The Coral Project just released a set of guides designed to help people in journalism improve their strategy, skills, and understanding for effective community engagement.
ProPublica and Public.Resource.org have added an additional 1.9 million electronically-filed Form 990 documents to the Nonprofit Explorer database, bringing the total to more than 3 million records.
The New York Times has open-sourced a text-message-based facial-recognition system for members of Congress. It's called Who the Hill.
GET A JOB
Center for Public Integrity is hiring a data editor in DC.
The Texas Tribune is hiring an interactive designer/developer.
Chalkbeat is hiring a digital producer.
If you're looking for general jobs in nonprofit news, check out the main INN newsletter and sign up here to get it in your inbox every Tuesday. Two INN newsletters are better than one!
DISCOVER
LISTEN: The Preytorians 📻
WATCH: Surfers playing with a floating dock 🌊
EAT: 17 different home-made ramen recipes 🍜
DRINK: A vanilla and fresh cherry bourbon cocktail 🍸
Watching MP3s being copied is nowhere near as fun.
