Journalists have a lot of high-minded ideals about journalism. We don’t always live up to these ideals, but in Philadelphia, the William Penn Foundation decided to put some money behind the concept that journalism should be a public service. It created the Center for Public Interest Journalism and the Philadelphia Public Interest Information Network (now AxisPhilly). It put millions of dollars directly into public interest journalism, with a three-year runway to figure out what shape such an endeavor could take.

Every mourner encounters a well-intentioned person who says,

“I’m sorry for your loss. At least you’ll always have your memories.”

I would like to give this person the benefit of the doubt that they only mean this as a facile platitude, but in fact, it is one of the cruelest things to say. Memories, when you are lucky enough to have pieced them together somehow, fade. They are ephemeral. They change and shift and sway and disappear. What is meant to be a comfort merely serves as a reminder of the new reality of a lifelong stream of micro-losses.

This year the eight Knight-Mozilla Fellows are roughly half folks who were not previously involved with journalism development and half people who have deepened their engagement with this community via the Fellowship. Last week, we heard from the first group, Fellows who took varied paths to their news organizations. This week we learned what it’s like for people who have worked in newsrooms to experience those spaces as a Knight-Mozilla Fellow.

What do you mean, I get to do whatever I want? Stijn Debrouwere began the week by expressing his awe at the very premise of the Fellowship and the space it allows for exploration.

Last night I saw a documentary about Celebration, Florida. It mentioned how there is some rumor about it being a secret place for swinging couples, which reminded me of an episode of Bob’s Burgers. So, of course I needed to re-watch that episode to see how much it is actually related to that town (it isn’t, really). But before I could do that, I fell down a Wikipedia rabbit hole because I wanted to remember what H. Jon Benjamin looks like.

Last week, news devs gave an inspiring and entertaining array of responses as to “why develop in the newsroom?” This week, Knight-Mozilla Fellows shared their stories. They told how they were introduced to journalism development via their participation in the Fellowship. These Fellows represent some of the many different paths people take to join what can feel like “one big journalism Justice League.”

Stop the imposter syndrome madness. Noah Veltman kicked off the week by imploring us all to stop seeing the world as coders and muggles. This toxic coder/non-coder binary almost prevented him from participating in the Fellowship.

Open source development can often involve much solo toiling, but next week in New York there will be two in-person opportunities to learn about awesome open source projects.

• Open Source Science Fair 2.0: The New York Times is hosting a science fair of dozens of open source projects looking for contributors. The event will include lightning talks and presentations from Dan Sinker, Hilary Mason, and Haleigh Sheehan. The two NYC-based Knight-Mozilla Fellows, Brian Abelson and Mike Tigas, will also be exhibiting projects during the fair. It’s a great chance to visit a news organization and learn more about open source contributions as well as the intersection between open source and journalism. Stop by on Thursday, July 25 from 6:15-10:30pm at The New York Times Building  (242 W 41st St, New York, NY 10036)

Yesterday OpenNews launched the search for five Knight-Mozilla Fellows in 2014. In just 24 hours, we already received eight applications. Applications came in from six countries on four continents. We heard from Argentina, Belgium, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, and the U.S. From coders who, in addition to English, speak five other languages. From people who want to use their skills to hack and experiment with some of the best news organizations in the world.

While some journalists were relaxing in Italy, the coolest of the cool kids were hanging out in Philly. (But isn’t that always the case? Yes, yes it is.)  During a panel in Perugia last week, Aron Pilhofer described the New York Times’ in-house analytics team, which teed up nicely a conversation at BarCamp News Innovation between Brian Abelson, the Knight-Mozilla Fellow working on analytics at the Times, and Greg Linch, the guy who helped spark the idea for the position.

Again on the fourth Saturday of April, a whole lotta journalists, developers, and “future of news” types will gather at Temple University for BarCamp News Innovation. During one day, people collaborate and gripe in unconference sessions and hack and brainstorm in a hackathon (this year deemed a “start-athon”).

Since there will be a ton of smart folks in one place, it seemed like a great time to talk about that most vexing of questions: impact. Brian Abelson, the Knight-Mozilla Fellow at the New York Times is spending 10-months working to answer Greg Linch’s question, “So, what if we measured journalism by its impact?” Greg and Brian will both be in Philly, and they kicked off a Google Group to gather ideas in advance of the Saturday morning unconference session. Brian also put together a great recommended reading list. It’s pretty easy for the conversations around impact to go in circles, but the aim is for this discussion to be more focused. Greg suggested an “impact-a-thon” format where folks share case studies, discuss them in small groups, and then report back on the findings.

Every week, I put together an events listing for Source. All over the world, people organize hack days and conferences and workshops and meetups to discuss, invent, gripe, and marvel at journalism and technology. There are a lot of events. I get to attend some of them. OpenNews sponsors many.

Already this year, OpenNews has sponsored an array of events. Beyond trainings, OpenNews has supported:

• Hack Jersey, the first news hackathon in New Jersey. It took place on a college campus and a great mix of college students and old-school reporters participated. Look out for a Q&A soon with Tom Meagher about lessons from organizing your first hackathon.