2023 Open Source Academy Application

We have opened the applications to the 2023 Catalyst Open Source Academy for the 9th to 20th of January 2023

Aimed at senior secondary school students, our Open Source Academy is 2 weeks of learning about, and working with, Open Source technologies.

The first week is learning about the common tools and practises that we, at Catalyst, use for our clients.  We use the process of building a small application to cover things such as licencing, accessibility and understanding the requirements of the application.  The application comes together as we learn about HTML, CSS, Javascript, Apache, MySQL, PHP and Python.  We do this on a laptop the students have installed Ubuntu on and a server they have configured on our Catalyst Cloud.

The second week has a focus of working on a real Open Source project.  Working with developers who really know the project, the students work towards getting a patch into the source code of the project.  Previous years we have had Koha, Mahara, Matomo, Drupal and Silverstripe as options the students could choose from.

If you, or someone you know, are interested and in Year 11, 12 or 13 at Secondary School and can be in Wellington for the Academy (9th to 20th of January 2023) fill in the linked form for the Application.

We are accepting registrations until 17th of November for the places we have available.  If you have further questions, contact Ian at academy@catalyst.net.nz