Tag: Outreachy
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Career Opportunities
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. Steven Spielberg Hello! I’m Ivy Mboya. I’m currently based in Nairobi, Kenya. I’m a software engineer with 1 year of experience and currently interning on the ModECI project within Outreachy. I have a…
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Modifying Expectations : ModECI internship
As software engineers, we often set up project timelines & goals before we even begin working on said project. This is quite important as it helps us break down a complex project into small deliverable tasks and understand the scope of what we intend to build. But do we sometimes set timelines that are just…
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Conditions in MDF
The second task assigned to me by my mentor (Mr. Gleeson) was updating conditions in the Model Description Format (MDF) project as they were too abstract for an initial user to decipher. The MDF project’s main objective is to express computational models in a standardized format that allows them to be exchanged between different programming…