{"id":530,"date":"2009-08-13T09:55:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T16:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/?p=530"},"modified":"2009-08-13T09:55:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T16:55:53","slug":"free-software-foundation-launches-gnu-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/free-software-foundation-launches-gnu-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Software Foundation Launches GNU Generation."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><strong>GNU Generation, an open source community for teens!<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-533\" title=\"GNU Generation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/GNUGen1.png\" alt=\"GNU Generation\" width=\"250\" height=\"247\" \/>The Free Software foundation has launched a community for teens ages 13 to 18 that are interested in contributing to open source. It&#8217;s goal is to give kids interested in open source development, a place to exchange ideas and participate in open source projects. <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.fsf.org\/wiki\/Group:GNU_Generation\" target=\"_blank\">GNU Generation<\/a> isn&#8217;t just for coders. It will encourage kids to contribute art and documentation, and promote advocacy as well.<\/p>\n<p>In a time where Open Source is starting to get a real foot hold on the American computer frontier, it&#8217;s good to see organizations reaching out to our youth with constructive ideas.<\/p>\n<p>GNU Generation is holding annual contests and award the participants with free memberships and prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Good going GNU!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Stu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GNU Generation, an open source community for teens! The Free Software foundation has launched a community for teens ages 13 to 18 that are interested in contributing to open source. It&#8217;s goal is to give kids interested in open source development, a place to exchange ideas and participate in open source projects. GNU Generation isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[97,99,95,96,94,100,190,98],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source","tag-clubs","tag-contest","tag-free-software-foundation","tag-fsf","tag-gnu","tag-kids","tag-open-source","tag-prizes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}