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Pivoteers and Pioneers in the New Age of Social Distancing

Submitted by Yulia on Tue, 05/05/2020 - 12:47pm

Discovery webisodes: Challenges and Opportunities exposed by COVID-19

Free Webinar Series: OpenHub , in collaboration with HVTechFest is offering a series of online public meetings exploring economic development challenges and opportunities during the unprecedented COVID-19 public health crisis. The focus will be on the current challenges and the urgent need for rapid tech development for local businesses and...

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OpenHubs’s Rapid Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Transition to online learning for Newburgh Girls Code Club (NGCC):

Submitted by Shelley Tween on Sun, 05/03/2020 - 1:25pm

OpenHub, in collaboration with the Newburgh Free Library, mentors youth in an ongoing after-school coding club based on Girls Who Code whose mission is to “close the gender gap in technology and to change the image of what a programmer looks like and does”. Since the Fall, participants ages 11 through 18 from all over the Hudson Valley, gathered...

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Presenting HV Startups from Healthcare / Life Science / Pharma industry

Meet entrepreneurs in Healthcare & Life Science & Pharma, learn about innovative technology, chat with investors on how to get your project funded.

At this event, healthcare startupers - Ruobing Xia from NamiTherapeutic, Gary German from Nonnatech - http://nonnatech.com/, and Robert Williams from XZEVN Solutions will pitch, share their startups stories and insights.

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Starting at the Hackathon

We plan to have HVTechFest winners to present their projects and discuss their next steps / test their projects for a startup viability.

https://hvtechfest.com/hackathon

We will be happy to see you presenting - please submit your startup talk / pitch / challenge using this form: https://tinyurl.com/StartupHV

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Straight Talk about OpenHub's Fast Track Website Development Bootcamp

Submitted by Shannah on Fri, 10/18/2019 - 8:19pm

Firstly, this Bootcamp has a schedule of one 3-hr class per week in the evening from 6-9pm. This is specifically so people can take the Bootcamp while they continue to work. Each course in the Bootcamp gives, on average, three hours of homework, although students can opt to put more time in at home than that with extra assignments. Bootcamp...

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ABC series: Build a business website using WordPress - C

Workshop C How to secure and backup my website and why

Website backup strategy
How to keep website clean
What is website Security?

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ABC series: Build a business website using WordPress - B

Workshop B How to add and manage content along with adding additional functionality, i.e. plugins

Building blocks of content: posts and pages. Without great content, even the most well-designed, tightly-structured blogs will ultimately fail. There are two blocks you need to worry about, pre-launch and post-launch contents:

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ABC series: Build a business website using WordPress - A

Workshop A How to get hosting and set up WordPress

This will be a very intense hands on A-B-C course on WordPress websites. We will cover best practices on both aspects - business and technical.

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October StartupHV at Newburgh

On October 17th we will have several startups pitching to local investors. Come learn and practice your pitch. Meet local investors (see bios below). Apply to present & pitch - send us a DM!