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If you have kids (or you are one) and you're in or near the San Francisco area, you might want to sign up for the GitHub-sponsored CoderDojo coming on February 25th. CoderDojo is a free, not-for-profit movement with a strong open source emphasis on open source that seeks to teach young people how to code and make learning "a fun, sociable, kick ass experience."

The organization was founded by James Whelton and Bill Liao, and has focused mostly on Ireland until now. (There's also a CoderDojo in London.) The program is for kids between seven and 18, and according to GitHub's Cameron McEfee has been teaching "HTML, CSS, Javascript, iOS app development, and pretty much anything else they think sounds awesome." Kids also get guest lectures from tech mentors and tours of tech companies, in addition to instruction on development.

With little fanfare, GitHub has released Janky under the MIT license. Janky is a continuous integration (CI) server that runs on top of Jenkins and Hubot, designed to work with projects hosted on GitHub.

Node.js is not only attracting a lot of developer interest, it's also proving interesting to entrepreneurial types. Case in point, NodeSocket, a Node.js hosting business that's in development. NodeSocket bills itself as a "hosting platform and community for developers." Currently in private beta, NodeSocket is a hybrid service play that will offer pre-configured VPSes with Node.js set up for easy application deployment.

Founder Justin Keller says that NodeSocket isn't a PaaS play. NodeSocket gives users the ability to create one or more VPSes with full root access to modify and install packages. Node.js Package Manager (NPM) is installed by default.

Today, CollabNet announced Connect, its new integration framework to provide app dev orchestration and management. The big news here is its integration with Atlassian's bug tracker tool JIRA. It also brings the Git source code repository into an enterprise setting that can be used more adroitly by larger project teams. The goal is that your data stays in one place while you move through the development and test lifecycle.

You can download a free trial of Connect here.

Today GitHub rolled out GitHub Enterprise, a self-hosted GitHub instance that companies can deploy internally. If you've heard this song before, another company that specialized in catering to developers went "enterprise" and never quite managed to get any traction. Is GitHub headed down the same rabbit hole, or is the company likely to succeed where SourceForge failed?

One year after acquiring Bitbucket, Atlassian is taking aim at GitHub. The company announced Git support with free, unlimited private Git repositories today. Git support is new to the Bitbucket service, which started around Mercurial repositories.

In addition to Git support, the company also announced a new importer for GitHub as well as importers for other hosted code collaboration services like Google Code, CodePlex and SourceForge.

GitHub, the website for sharing code and developing software collaboratively, today reported that it has hit 1 million registered developers hosting code. The understated but much-loved site simply posted a celebratory illustration and Tweeted a Tweet about it.

GitHub launched just over three years ago and has stolen many a heart from Sourceforge, Google Code and other related websites. (Sourceforge remains much more trafficked though.) GitHub's support for the git system of version control, as well as its well designed user interface, has made it the coolest place for developers to work online.

You know there's a slight problem somewhere when a developer uses words like "hell fire" to refer to a project. When it comes to Etherpad, the popular collaborative editor, it's not the concept that's problematic, it's the delivery.

Thankfully, the Etherpad Foundation has put two years into delivering a kinder and gentler version. Called Etherpad Lite, it streamlines the original into something more manageable to install and run."

Companies and projects focusing on large-scale collaboration might want to start thinking about collaboration in a new way. Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody closed out the second day of LinuxCon North America 2011 with a contrarian look at collaboration. While many treat collaboration as a "love fest" or harmonious interaction, Shirky put forward the idea that productive methods of fighting are the most successful, particularly in open source.

Shirky, who also teaches at New York University, started talking about his "favorite bug report ever." The bug report, for Firefox (#330884), was a corner case where Firefox would show any user what sites that should never save passwords even if selected by another user.