Welcome to July, hacks and hackers! In the first half of 2016, H/H chapters held nearly 100 meetups in dozens of cities. We also held seven Connect events from San Francisco to London, with another coming up in Toronto in a couple months.

Tomorrow, we’re holding our monthly global call, so please join in!

The week ahead:

• Miami is holding OpenHack Miami
• IRE is meeting for its regular open lab
• Hacks/Hackers is holding its global monthly call

Chapter spotlight:

London held its June meetup last week, looking at polling data just before the Europe-shaking Brexit vote. The London meetups draw huge crowds of up to 200 people a month, so the organizers built a list of tasks ahead of time.

Kerplunk chart on the complexities that will affect #EUref vote outcome from @JoeTwyman #hhldn pic.twitter.com/SWb61gZdnn

— LauraOliver (@LauraOliver) June 22, 2016

Organizer Joanna Geary shared the templates they use for assigning roles and tasks. “This means everyone knows what they have to do and stops too many last-minute panics!” she said.

Worth a read:

• That surge of Britons “frantically Googling” the EU after Brexit turned out to be under than a thousand people (Medium)
• The FAA finally announced its rules for drones, and Matt Waite explains what that means for drone journalists (Drone Journalism Lab)
• Social networks are quietly beginning to ban extremist content using algorithms (Reuters)

Job openings:

• Europe:
  • The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is hiring a Data Lab director
  • Storyful is hiring a journalist in the UK
• North America:
  • Vox is hiring a graphics reporter in Washington, D.C.
  • Conde Nast is hiring a data engineer in New York
  • The NYT has several data analyst positions open
  • The New Yorker is looking for an editorial production developer
  • EdSurge is seeking a data journalist to cover education technology
  • The Good Search, an ethical executive search company, wants to hire a data research associate
• Africa:
  • CodeforAfrica is hiring for several positions, including senior Python developer

Other upcoming events:

• July 19 – Austin, Texas, USA – Front Porch, a conference for web design and development
• July 28-29 – Portland, Oregon, USA – SRC CON, a Mozilla conference for journalist coders
• July 29-31 – Atlanta, USA – the first Women Who Code hackathon
• Sept. 22: NYC Media Lab Annual Summit, for executives, academics and startups to convene around future of media