New logos and a New Orleans hackathon
Suggest editsHope you had a good March, hacks and hackers! If you haven’t yet, check out the new H/H logos and make one for your local group. All you need is Photoshop, Illustrator or a free program and some elbow grease. Get ‘em while they’re hot!
Check out our new logo, part of the new look for #HacksHackers: https://t.co/v43cPNptAp
— HacksHackersNOLA (@HacksHackersNOL) March 23, 2017
The week ahead:
- Boston is holding a baseball hackathon as well as Conversations, a series on new frameworks for public discourse
- London will be discussing political bots, messenger bots, and interactive stories
- Brisbane is exploring The Algorithmic Life
- Philly is hosting lunch for remote workers
- Dublin is listening to an expert on data vis
- IRE is holding its regular weekly lab
Chapter spotlight:
New Orleans, which launched in the middle of last year, has already reached over 200 members. Organizer Samantha Sunne wrote about their last hackathon, which drew an unexpectedly large crowd.
#HacksHackers New Orleans finds its niche in a civic #hackathon https://t.co/GEhcLpqUDi #nolatech #followyournola
— Hacks/Hackers (@HacksHackers) February 9, 2017
Last week, they did a special hackathon for Sunshine Week, which coincided with New Orleans Entrepreneur Week.
Two coffee machines a-brewin' for the #HacksHackers #SunshineWeek #NOEW2017 hackathon pic.twitter.com/y8RjdLCL0l
— Samantha Sunne (@SamanthaSunne) March 19, 2017
Worth a read:
- A study says Americans trust news based more on who shared it than who published it (NiemanLab)
- Voice recognition devices like Siri and Alexa struggle to understand speech from users with accents, which may become problematic as voice-activated technology becomes more widespread (Backchannel)
- OpenNews added two more Source Guides to its collection, covering collaboration and census reporting (OpenNews)
Job openings:
- North America
- Politico is looking for a tech reporter
- Alley Interactive, who made the new Hacks/Hackers website, is hiring a software engineer
- USA TODAY Network is offering internships for UX design
- Dallas Morning News is seeking a data editor
- Wired is hiring an engineering manager
- National Geographic has an opening for a senior creative developer
- Europe
- The Globe and Mail is hiring a design editor
- The Guardian is looking for an interactive developer
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March | 29-31 | Brussels | Belgium | RightsCon for a freer Internet |
| March | 31 | Madison | USA | Center for Journalism Ethics conference |
| March | 31 | Boston | USA | Conversations: Creating new frameworks for public discourse |
| March | 31-1 | Tonsberg | Norway | SKUP conference for investigative reporters and editors in Norway |
| April | 5-9 | Perugia | Italy | International Journalism Festival |
| April | 15-16 | Austin | USA | ISOJ, the International Symposium on Online Journalism |
| April | 24-25 | Boston | USA | OpenVis Conf |
| May | 1-4 | Jakarta | Indonesia | UNESCO’s conference for World Press Freedom Day |
| May | 4-6 | Galway | Ireland | MoJoCon, the Mobile Journalism Conference |
| May | 15-20 | San Salvador | El Salvador | Forum for Central American Journalism |
| May | 18-20 | Hamburg | Germany | International Press Institute World Congress on media freedom in the digital age |
| May | 18-21 | Mechelen | Belgium | Dataharvest, the European Investigative Journalism Conference |
| June | 7-9 | Durban | South Africa | World News Media Congress |
| June | 15-18 | Detroit | USA | Allied Media Conference |
| June | 19-21 | Bonn | Germany | Global Media Forum on identity and diversity |
| June | 20-23 | Portland | USA | Open Source Bridge |
| June | 21-22 | Phoenix | USA | INN Days, business training for nonprofit newsrooms |
| June | 21-23 | Vienna | Austria | Global Editors Network summit |
| June | 22-25 | Phoenix | USA | Investigative Reporters & Editors IRE Conference |