A summer mentorship program hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Open Source Program Office
🕴🏾Silas 📸
Map of campus and town, including bike paths, foot paths, roads, and more (via OpenStreetMap)
- Transit app to help use the metro. Enter a location and choose from a list of routes.
- Summer Recreation (campus gym) hours
- Summer dining hours (Note: Nine/Lewis and Porter dining halls are also open around mealtimes)
- Laundry App (Note: Sign up for $5 Laundry Credit. Scroll down if there's no pop-up)
- Conference Services After Hours (for lockouts or other housing needs): (831) 332-0705
- Community Safety Officer (CSO) dispatch (for safety assistance, noise complaints, etc. 7pm-3am): (831) 459-2100
There's a lot to explore right here in Santa Cruz! Good Times (a free local weekly paper) publishes a weekly events calendar.
Here are some other popular summer activities:
- Thursday night concerts on the colonnade (free, near the Boardwalk)
- Friday night movies on the beach (free, near the Boardwalk)
- Walk around downtown with ice cream from Penny Ice Creamery or Mission Hill Creamery
- Wander one of the local Farmers' Markets (Westside or Downtown locations)
- Learn to surf at Cowell's Beach
- Go for a hike on Upper Campus, connecting to either Wilder Ranch State Park or Pogonip (at Pogonip, try to find the koi pond or the historic lime kilns!)
- Visit the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk for rides, games, laser tag, mini golf, and amusement park food
- Explore UCSC's own Arboretum gardens
Many open source communities love emoji!
Here's how to quickly access the emoji keyboards/palettes on various operating systems:
- In macOS, hold down
Cntrl + Cmd + Space Bar. Click and hold on an emoji to select a skintone. - In Windows, hold down
Windows key + .