{"id":16413,"date":"2015-10-03T17:46:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T17:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.francaisdeletranger.org\/en\/?p=16413"},"modified":"2020-09-16T16:28:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T16:28:56","slug":"mdfdeusa-grand-opening-of-the-french-american-holbertson-school-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.francaisdeletranger.org\/en\/2015\/10\/03\/mdfdeusa-grand-opening-of-the-french-american-holbertson-school-in-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"MDFDE\/USA: Grand Opening of the French-American HOLBERTON SCHOOL in San Francisco!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From left to right, the three Holberton School’s <\/i>cofounders: Julien, Sylvain, Rudy<\/i> Pitching @Trinity Ventures<\/i><\/div>\n<\/address>\n
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Holberton School<\/strong> \u200f@<\/s>holbertonschool<\/b> <\/a> 18 hil y a 18 heures<\/a> <\/small> Facebook HQ <\/a><\/div>\n
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Hanging out with @<\/s>holbertonschool<\/b><\/a> mentors: @<\/s>acoomans<\/b><\/a> iOS dev @<\/s>instagram<\/b><\/a> @<\/s>flz<\/b><\/a> Production engineer @<\/s>facebook\u00a0 <\/b><\/a>Julien Barbier<\/a>, Florent Thoumie<\/a>, Arnaud Coomans<\/a> et Sylvain Kalache<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Congrats Sylvain KALACHE, Julien BARBIER & Rudy RIGOT!<\/h2>\n

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WOW! So proud of you guys for accomplishing so much already in San Francisco and Silicon Valley and in such a short time!<\/p>\n

With our very best wishes of continued success to you, the @holbertonschool<\/a> @TechMeAbroad<\/a> and all our talented French engineers @While_42 <\/a>for the future worldwide!<\/p>\n

Kind regards,<\/p>\n

Elisabeth Jenssen<\/strong><\/p>\n

P.S. Looks like “Leon” is not going “home” anytime soon…<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.francaisdeletranger.org\/en\/2014\/10\/29\/mdfdeusa-happy-2nd-anniversary-sylvain-kalache-while42-sf-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Pizza, T-shirts and Coding: An Education in the Human Connection<\/h1>\n

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Funding a school is not a familiar venture for us, but investing in talented entrepreneurs? We know all about that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It seems everyone wants to be a software engineer these days, thanks to a demand for quality programmers in nearly every industry. The need has spurred a wave of \u201clearn quick\u201d coding programs<\/a> and bootcamps, and business is booming<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While we at Trinity Ventures<\/a> recognized how important this transition is for the tech industry, we never considered investing in a software engineering school ourselves. Until we heard from Julien Barbier. When he said he wanted us to fund Holberton School<\/a>, we said yes.<\/p>\n

I first met Julien when he was the head of growth and marketing at Docker, the open-source application container engine. I watched him turn a tiny marketing budget into a huge network of Docker ambassadors and evangelists. His efforts really helped to make Docker what it is. As Julien\u2019s pizza parties grew, so too did the Docker fanbase. He learned how to tap into the basic human desires for recognition, and opportunities for collaboration and personal development, to nurture fans everywhere. These individual engineers would then go to their companies and ask to use Docker. It was really their collective voices that drove the awareness, interest and adoption that Docker is seeing today.<\/p>\n

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Julien is a software engineer who understands the value of human connection. He likes to say he achieved the momentum around Docker with nothing but pizza, t-shirts and love. He made sure the developers he met got the recognition they deserved. Every time a developer would blog about Docker, he would not just promote the content, he would make sure Docker sent traffic back to the developer\u2019s own site and help raise the developer\u2019s profile on social media. This made for happy developers and happy developers converted their friends.<\/p>\n

This wasn\u2019t the first time Julien built a community. He has a history of bringing developers together<\/a> and I think he can parlay this experience into building a successful school. At the end of the day, the best schools create long lasting alumni networks that graduates can use as a resource for life. That is what Julien and his co-founders Rudy Rigot and Sylvain Kalache intend to do with Holberton School. This new institute is named after Betty Holberton<\/a>, a programming pioneer who defied the stereotypes of her time. It is with the Holberton family\u2019s permission, and with that spirit in mind, that Holberton School is seeking its first pupils.<\/p>\n

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Not only do I have every faith in Julien to turn Holberton School into a thriving, diverse community, but his enthusiasm for this venture has helped to educate us on the changing world of higher education. Holberton is not your typical coding school. The two year program is project-based and peer-driven, moving away from a traditional lecture and curriculum model. And there\u2019s no skimping on quality education. Just as he was able to build a community at Docker, Julien has gathered a talented group of engineers, CEOs and product managers to mentor these students and help them understand the world of opportunities this education creates.<\/p>\n

I think this is a vision that will speak to people of all walks of life, but it specifically gives young people another option as they consider life after high school. I hope this encourages many more who would not otherwise consider software development to see careers in technology as real, attainable and welcoming.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, education means helping people better themselves through learning. In Julien\u2019s mind, that takes a human connection. And sometimes, a slice of pizza.<\/p>\n

To Learn More:<\/em><\/p>\n

Become a Full-Stack Software Engineer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

More women developers? Hell yes, says Holberton School\u200a\u2014\u200aTechRepublic<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

San Francisco program to train software engineers using project-based learning | Education Dive<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Holberton School Seeded to Train Software Engineers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Hello, World! https:\/\/www.holbertonschool.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Betty Holberton<\/h1>\n

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Born Frances Elizabeth Snyder, Betty Holberton attended the University of Pennysylvania, where on her first day of classes, she was reportedly told by her math professor to quit wasting her time attempting a mathematics degree and to stay home and raise children. Holberton instead studied journalism, then went on to be hired by the Moore School of Eningeering to be one of the first \u201ccomputors\u201d to work on ENIAC.<\/p>\n

Apparently her professor was wrong, as she became the Chief of the Programming Research Branch, Applied Mathematics Laboratory at the David Taylor Model Basin in 1959, helped to develop UNIVAC, wrote the first generative programming system (SORT\/MERGE), and the first statistical analysis package for the 1950 U.S. Census. Holberton worked with John Mauchly to develop the C-10 insturctions for BINAC (generally considered to be the origins of modern programming languages), and also worked with Grace Hopper in the early standards of COBOL and FORTRAN. Not only did Holberton create commands, but she was also responsible for developing the numeric keypad and for making computers that awful beige color. Holberton was the only woman, of the original six ENIAC programmers, to receive the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award in 1997 (Bouman).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Serial co-founders Julien, Sylvain, Rudy, now launching a Software Engineering School committed to diversity<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Oops… they did it again! They just never stop surprising us with their incredible projects. Sylvain (former LinkedIn\/SlideShare engineer), Julien (former Docker marketing manager) and Rudy (former Apple tech engineer) have joined forces once again…<\/p>\n

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The three accomplices<\/a> are making a name for themselves in the tech community of the Silicon Valley (and not just for while42 crazy afterparties…): Sylvain as the genius tech engineer and recurring events photographer, Julien as the social marketing guru and growth hacking expert, and Rudy as the brilliant computer programmer and smart content creator. But they are even better known as a tremendous team, constantly chasing the next big thing.<\/p>\n

Their list of accomplishments so far is already impressive:<\/p>\n