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+### Free Code Camp's [August Live Stream] (https://youtu.be/UhoxoYrJ6Qs) was the largest yet.
+
+## The agenda included:
+
+- Opening words from Michael
+- New front end challenges [3:00] (https://youtu.be/UhoxoYrJ6Qs?t=3m)
+- Newly configured full-stack challenges
+- New Nonprofit Projects [12:32] (https://youtu.be/UhoxoYrJ6Qs?t=12m32s)
+- Wiki [22:49] (https://youtu.be/UhoxoYrJ6Qs?t=22m49s)
+- New chat rooms [29:40] (https://youtu.be/UhoxoYrJ6Qs?t=29m40s)
+- New Live Streams [35:34] (https://youtu.be/UhoxoYrJ6Qs?t=35m34s)
+- New Internet Radio Station DJ'd by campers [36:30] (https://youtu.be/UhoxoYrJ6Qs?t=36m30s)
+- FCC Bot [39:24] (https://youtu.be/UhoxoYrJ6Qs?t=39m24s)
+- Matt Yamamoto Zipline Demo [54:24] (https://youtu.be/UhoxoYrJ6Qs?t=54m24s)
+- Closing from Quincy [1:04:15] (https://youtu.be/UhoxoYrJ6Qs?t=1h4m15s)
+- [Pull Request After Party with Quincy] (https://youtu.be/r0lCJ_TFYlI)
+
+<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UhoxoYrJ6Qs
+" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.evernote.com/l/AnvmsUWWNeJFNbfm7fDa7SRLmnbn7jafRL4B/image.png" 
+alt="Screen shot from our twitch feed on August 1 2015" width="560" height="315"border="10" /></a>
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+Our November 7, 2015 Summit began at noon EDT on [our twitch.tv channel](http://twitch.tv/freecodecamp) and was available afterward on our [youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8butISFwT-Wl7EV0hUK0BQ?sub_confirmation=1).
+
+This one-hour live-stream featured:    
+1. Quincy showcasing [our new Medium publication](https://medium.freecodecamp.com)    
+2. Berkeley explaining our recent curriculum improvements, and how you can contribute, too    
+3. Ben introducing the Challenge-o-matic 1000 tool for creating challenges
+4. Mike demoing a way to get FCC running on your computer with just a few commands using Vagrant    
+5. Kristian demoing a [collaborative modern music app built by campers](http://musare.com/)    
+6. Questions from our community
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+Our October 3, 2015 Summit began at noon EST on Saturday on [twitch.tv channel](http://twitch.tv/freecodecamp) and be available afterward on our [youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8butISFwT-Wl7EV0hUK0BQ?sub_confirmation=1).
+
+During this 1 hour live stream, we'll:
+- launch our free Front End and Full Stack Development Certificate programs
+- demo our new, more comprehensive portfolio pages
+- demo a new way that all our campers can immediately start helping nonprofits
+- talk with camper Blake Johnston, who created the Clementine.js boilerplate that Free Code Camp will use for our full stack Basejump challenges
+- launch our first-ever t-shirt campaign on teespring.com
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+## Sunday's Improvements
+* replaced our getting-started videos with a simple 10-minute process (using GIFs instead of videos)
+* doubled the number of our HTML5 and Bootstrap challenges
+* replaced Codecademy's JavaScript and jQuery challenges with our own challenges
+* added our own Object-oriented Programming and Functional Programming challenges
+* added two new Zipline front end challenges (Personal Portfolio and Simon game), and moved our Ziplines to much earlier in our curriculum
+* completely replaced our Field Guide with a searchable, and easily-editable open-source wiki
+* made it so your Bonfire code is stored in your browser, so if you leave the page, your code will be there when you come back
+* simplified our portfolio pages. You can now click a single button to mirror your Free Code Camp profile with your GitHub profile. Bonfire solutions are no longer shown here, but they'll eventually be accessible through our API.
+* fixed some issues with Brownie Points and Streaks
+* improved our Camper News page by removing the (mostly unused) comments and adding one-click upvoting
+* added a Creative Commons license to literally all of our images and text
+* thanks to Loopback, everything is now an API, and we will soon publish cool ways to interact with Free Code Camp's (non-sensitive) data
+
+## FAQ
+
+### The challenge I was most recently doing disappeared.
+You can just keep going. If you have time to go back and try our new challenges, they should be a quick review for you. Otherwise, keep moving forward.
+
+### Why are you deploying all these improvements at once?
+We've been working on some of the features for months on our Staging branch. Most of them were held up by a single task: our transition to [Loopback](http://loopback.io/). @BerkeleyTrue started working on this back in March. 
+
+### Was deploying everything at once necessary?
+Probably not. Going forward, we will deploy new code several times a day (as we did prior to the Loopback feature). We plan to start using a [continuous integration](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration) and other agile best practices as we reduce our [technical debt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt).
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+Our open source community has been hard at work throughout September on some major improvements. We're going to keep up this tempo, and do a special live stream for our first birthday (October 15, 2015). Here are the improvements we just pushed to production:
+
+###Certification
+* New challenges have appeared called "Claim your Front End Developer Certificate" and "Claim your Full Stack Developer Certificate".
+* We've built acceptance of our [Academic Honesty Policy](https://github.com/FreeCodeCamp/FreeCodeCamp/wiki/Academic-Honesty-Policy) into these certificate challenges.
+* Certificates are issued programmatically once you meet their requirements. 
+* Certificates are available right from your Code Portfolio, and publicly viewable to all as long as you haven't hidden your solutions.
+* Each certificate has a unique verifiable URL that employers can check. This makes it is impossible to forge our certificates without access to our production servers.
+
+###Code Portfolios
+* All challenges and their solutions now show up on your code portfolio, including Waypoints.
+* You can hide your solutions from other people.
+
+###Unauthenticated Campers
+* You can complete all of our challenges without being hassled to log in.
+* Once you complete a challenge, you will be redirected to the next logical challenge, even if you aren't logged in.
+
+###Improved challenges
+* @berkeleytrue figured out a way to make all challenge solutions 100% sharable. You can copy a URL directly from your browser and share it with others, and they will be able to run your code against the challenge's tests. URLs update automatically when you run a challenge's tests.
+* We completely rewrote all Bonfire tests to be as transparent as possible. By popular request, we no longer show the Chai tests themselves - just a message clearly explaining what each test is testing.
+* By popular request, we added gif-style challenges, and are replacing our video-style challenges with these. All of our old videos will remain available on our [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8butISFwT-Wl7EV0hUK0BQ?sub_confirmation=1).
+
+###Wiki improvements
+* @rafase282 has nearly finished creating [notes for every single challenge in Free Code Camp's curriculum](https://github.com/FreeCodeCamp/FreeCodeCamp/wiki/Map), including hints and solutions.
+* @codenonprofit has started creating "portal" style wiki articles that serve as better entry points into our tangle of 400+ articles.
+
+###Resolved experiments
+* Plug.dj shut down, and our plug.dj room with it. Some of our campers are working on building an open source music app to replace it.
+* We delisted several low-traffic casual Gitter rooms from our wiki and created a catch-all [Casual chat room](https://gitter.im/freecodecamp/casual) for non-coding-related chat.
+* We now recommend campers use their Campsite’s Facebook group for chatting instead of their campsite’s Gitter chatroom. Only a few of our Campsite Gitter chatroooms had active synchronous discussions, and about 1/3rd of all conversations consisted of someone saying “hello” and not getting a response. We’ve delisted all our Campsite Gitter rooms from our Campsite directory. Still, we will keep them open for archival purposes, and you can keep using it if you’d like. Here’s a short [blog post](http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/09/jump-start-your-local-campsite-with-coffee-and-code.html) about how our Campsites are evolving and growing.
+
+###Other exciting developments
+* We just launched our first-ever [t-shirt campaign](https://teespring.com/get-free-code-camp-t-shirt) and added a second campaign for [EU fulfillment](https://teespring.com/free-code-camp-shirt-eu).
+* We just launched Commit. Rather than going into detail on it here, read [@codenonprofit's blog post](http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/10/commit-to-yourself-commit-to-nonprofit.html).
+* We launched [Free Code Camp Labs](http://freecodecamp.com/labs) to showcase some unique projects our campers are building.
+* We started gathering [Stories from campers](http://freecodecamp.com/stories) and putting them all in one place. These are just a fraction of the campers who've advanced their careers and gotten coding jobs after learning with Free Code Camp, but it's a pretty representative sample.
+
+###Improvements coming in the next few weeks:
+* A clickable hint button on each challenge that cycles through a series of increasingly helpful hints.
+* Recommended solutions that you can compare your solution with once you complete each challenge.
+* We'll re-record some of our dated-looking gifs.
+* We'll finish the Get Set for Basejumps with Clementine.js (gif-style challenge)
+* We'll finish the new Get Set for Ziplines (gif-style challenge)
+* We'll move all Zipline and Basejump challenges to gif-style.
+* We'll add a back button to our gif-style challenges.
+* We'll launch our job board.
+* We'll publish several new JSON API and AJAX-related challenges
+* We'll finish a leaderboard creation mechanic designed for teachers to track students and campers to track their friends.
+* We'll finish the Hikes interface (Hikes are Briana Swift's [computer science theory challenges](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7tlgZg4Q1o&list=PLWKjhJtqVAbmfoj2Th9fvxhHIeqFO7wOy))
+* We'll close the ~30 pull requests that have piled up (thanks, contributors!)
+
+###And longer term goals we still haven't forgotten:
+* Support for major world languages ([translation is still underway](https://trello.com/b/m7zhwXka/fcc-translation))
+* Turning Free Code Camp into a single-page isomorphic app
+* Creating a browser-based replacement for Screen Hero / Team Viewer that is well suited to pairing on Free Code Camp.
+* React.js curriculum
+* D3.js curriculum and data visualization Ziplines
+
+##Our codebase is improving quickly. If you see something that looks funky or broken, please click that "bug" button and create a GitHub issue for us. Thanks for your patience and support.
+
+#Happy coding!