Coding day teaches value of open source

Western Washington University's Association for Women in Computing and Association for Computing Machinery held Open Source Day at Viking Union from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 9.

About 50 people attended the event and learned more about open-source computing through tutorial, panel discussion and one of seven projects.

The one-day workshop was organized by 35 volunteers and mentors, who came from all over the Northwest to help out.