Greetings, hacks and hackers, and happy Friday. Hacks/Hackers now officially has more than 50,000 members across 63 Meetup groups – and tens of thousands more connected on Facebook, Google and other channels. Let’s take a look at what these trailblazing groups are up to next week.
The week ahead:
India is holding a discussion on how to transform storytelling with social media Miami is holding its regular OpenHack Miami IRE is also holding its regular open lab in mid-Missouri Venice will host the author of a book on “The Architecture of Information” Chapter spotlight:
Hope you had a productive week, hacks and hackers. Let’s have a round of applause for Warsaw, who kicked off their very first Hacks/Hackers event on Tuesday. You can check out their adventures at #hhwaw:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEZfDVxIY8p/
The week ahead:
Nairobi is hearing from the Kenya journalists who worked on the #PanamaPapers project Paris is also featuring #PanamaPapers journalists from France and Europe Brisbane is holding a workshop on finding stories in huge amounts of text Rosario is holding a datathon to analyze public datasets in Argentina Miami and IRE’s weekly labs will be open for business Vienna is hosting speakers from Google News Lab and OpenDataCity Barcelona is teaching R for Dummies Chapter spotlight:
Connect Austin went off with a bang yesterday, and Miami is already in full swing getting ready for Connect Miami coming up in one month. If you or someone you know is interested in learning about media startups in Florida, send us your info here!
The week ahead:
Venice is hosting the makers of media projects Media Vox Pop and Formicablu Miami is holding its regular OpenHack Miami IRE is also holding its regular open lab in mid-Missouri Chapter spotlight:
Greetings, hacks and hackers! It’s just one week til Connect Austin, and in the meantime, Miami is staging a mediathon, Karachi is learning Instagram, and London is nabbing data guru Simon Rogers for its monthly meetup.
We’re still looking for input on the new Hacks/Hackers website, so please pass the RFI along to any coders, designers or other Internet makers you may know. We’re still accepting proposals through April 11.
Happy Friday, hacks and hackers! I thought about putting an April Fool’s joke in here, but don’t worry. I wouldn’t do that to you.
Before we see what the chapters are up to, I want to bring your attention to the Website Action Group’s Request for Interest for developing and designing a brand new website for www.hackshackers.com.
Interested parties should read the RFI and submit their proposals to info@hackshackers.com by April 11, 2016.
Greetings, hacks and hackers! We’ve got some news on the latest Connect milestone:
#HHConnect Austin: Lands April 14th @Statesman w/ #Lean expert @ashmaurya! RSVP today: https://t.co/NuifftCSHD pic.twitter.com/TRBHf6z7Xx
— Hacks/Hackers (@HacksHackers) March 23, 2016 Ash Maurya, creator of Lean Canvas, will be the featured speaker. We want to get the word out to all media entrepreneurs (or aspiring entrepreneurs) in the area, especially since a lot of people will already be in town for the ISOJ conference.
Happy Friday, hacks and hackers, and I hope those among you who went to NICAR last week are catching up admirably.
The week ahead:
Boston is holding a Baseball Hack Day, their fifth annual hackathon for baseball-related projects Brisbane s holding a showcase for projects by its own members, as well as special guest Lydia Byrne, a graphic illustrator Montreal is hosting an informational talk on the dark web, the deep web, and internet security for journalists Hacks/Hacker IRE is holding its regular weekly lab Chapter spotlight:
Happy NICAR to the lucky hacks and hackers here in Denver, and happy Friday to everyone else! If you’re not at the conference but would still like to grab the tipsheets and tutorials, I’d suggest Melody Kramer’s tips for finding the most popular tweets circulating on the #NICAR16 hashtag.
If you missed @Gephi #NICAR16 session yesterday, tutorial & data are here:https://t.co/jme4jLNjcJ pic.twitter.com/rJHvzSpIX4
— Peter Aldhous (@paldhous) March 11, 2016 The week ahead:
Hope all you hacks and hackers are ready for NICAR! (Or at least ready to follow it on Twitter.) Hacks/Hackers Colorado is hosting a happy hour for everyone in Denver, with drinks sponsored by the Knight Lab and Tableau. (Sadly, the beers cannot be shared on Twitter.)
The intrepid website committee is asking for opinions on their plans for a new and improved website. Please comment on the Google doc! This is for anybody who needs or wants a Hacks/Hackers website, no design or web experience needed.
Happy Leap Day weekend, hacks and hackers. (Is that a thing?)
The largest Hacks/Hackers group (over 5,000 and counting!) had what looks like an epic pool party last week, and other local groups are putting their members in touch with some pretty great opportunities.
The week ahead:
Hacks/Hackers IRE is holding its regular lab in Columbia, Missouri Sydney is holding an informational event about Editors Lab, a sort of hacking pageant from countries across the world Miami is holding its regular OpenHack night with other hacking and coding groups in town Denmark is rebooting with its first event of 2016, topic to be determined Johannesburg is informing local hacks and hackers about opportunities with impactAFRICA Halifax is holding an event on Thursday, details to be announced Chapter spotlight: