Summer of Making: a temporary rewards program sponsored by GitHub to get minors to make coding projects

Summer of Making: a temporary rewards program sponsored by... #rewards #beermoney

https://kbin.melroy.org/m/programming@programming.dev/t/1096974

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

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

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

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!
"So we can further train CoPilot on projects of people who can't sue us."
the projects don't have to e hosted on github

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.

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.