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Update History page #1412

Closed calincionca35 closed 3 years ago

calincionca35 commented 3 years ago

Feature request

Update OC's History page

Proposed solution

Add OC's major milestones since 2017 to the History page https://www.operationcode.org/history

Potential alternative solutions

Additional context

hollomancer commented 3 years ago

Biggest thing will be VET-TEC, new board members and corporate partnerships, chapters starting

calincionca35 commented 3 years ago

@hollomancer Would you also consider adding the GuideStar Gold Transparency Seal as a milestone?

calincionca35 commented 3 years ago

My PR #1417 creates the placeholders for the copy for this issue.

datphotogurl commented 3 years ago

Here is the copy for the /history page. We will need to also create a tab under "About Us" in the head navigation (open another issue).

### Operation Code’s History
 2011 Humble Beginnings Operation Code's founder - retired U.S. Army Captain, David Molina, attended his first hackathon in New York City. After a weekend learning to code at AngelHack, he was inspired to pursue software engineering as a post-military occupation. He submitted an application to The Flatiron School while on active-duty, only to discover that the program did not accept the "Post-9/11 GI Bill" as payment. 

2013 One Month's Rails Molina exited military service and began to self-teach Ruby on Rails, a full-stack web development platform for building comprehensive web applications. He also started attending meetups with "B-More on Rails" while finishing One Month's Rails online course. After meeting Rubyists from around the world, he was introduced to the Portland, Oregon Ruby group. Inspired, Molina joined Techstars' Patriot Boot Camp (PBC) at George Washington University. 

Grassroots Advocacy During this time, Molina met with Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, to speak about the inability to use the Post 9/11 GI Bill for coding bootcamps. Before departing D.C., Molina received advice from U.S. Army Congressional Fellow Ben Culver, on gathering data to address the problem.  This was the beginning efforts for the current VET TEC pilot program under the Forever G.I. Bill.  

Operation Code's First Draft Molina’s next step was to purchase the domain opcod3.us and work with fellow Army veteran and software developer, Don Livanec to finish the first live webpage in 2013.

2014 First Commit

At Cascadia Ruby, Molina received encouragement from fellow Rubyist, Whitney Rose, to launch Operation Code's petition using "Launchrock". After lengthy discussions with Kristin Smith, Adam Enbar (representing The Flatiron School), and Code Fellows, the first line of code was committed to GitHub.

Our Official Domain and Brand is Born Later that same year, web developer, teacher, entrepreneur and co-founder of Code Fellows, Ivan Storck, purchased the domain 'operationcode.org' and became our first donor in the process.  To round out 2014, HackHands co-founders Forest Good and Geraldo Ramos joined Operation Code, designing our logo and providing veterans free access to hack.summit, a virtual conference to learn from the world's most renowned programmers.

2015 501(c)(3) Official Status Operation Code formally launched as a nonprofit, led by David Molina. The kickoff event hosted dozens of veterans, software developers, media representatives, and staff members from Senator Ron Wyden and Congressman Earl Blumenauer's offices.

April 2019 Congress Passes VET TEC Program As a direct result of the lobbying and work of Operation Code, VET TEC was launched. Under the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act (also known as the Forever G.I. Bill), the VET TEC program received $15 million per annual budget to assist students in the areas of: information science, software, computer programming, data processing and media application. This program does not utilize the entitlement and remaining months of the G.I. Bill, but requires candidates to have at least one day of remaining entitlement remaining. Students receive a housing stipend similar to the G.I. Bill at the E-5 with dependents rate.

February 2021 Guidestar Gold Operation Code receives the Gold Seal of Transparency from Guidestar.org, the independent data analysis for non-profit certification of approval.

March 2021 Operation Code Exceeds 8000 Members

Today, Operation Code continues our advocacy efforts and strategic alliances, builds on our supportive online community, local chapter and online meetups, mentorship, career networking, free learning resources, access to code school scholarships, and continues to advocate for veteran and military family access to code schools and careers in the tech industry.