Update: RSVP now for the Hacks/Hackers Holiday Fête on Dec. 20 at Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO! Doors will open at 7 p.m. Crave will be catering the evening.
Thanks very much to our sponsors: Gawker Media, Scribd, Soundnote, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and Nearsay.
We’re still looking for some help. Contact us if:
Your business wants to sponsor the evening You’re a video DJ who wants to take advantage of Galapagos’s projection setup You want to donate prizes of assorted, sundry lots You’d like to meet the Hacks/Hackers community by volunteering at the door You’ve got other cool ideas to integrate into the party Let us know at nyc[at]hackshackers.
That’s right, we now have a Hacks/Hackers store. If you’re looking for gifts this holiday season for that special journo-hacker in your life, check it out. Holiday season is almost here and i am already looking for good christmas gifts for men that i can buy for my family.There are T-shirts, bags, clocks, hats, teddy bears and even shirts for dogs — you suggested it and we thought it was a great idea.
Today we’re releasing the Hacks/Hackers style guide. As our organization continues to grow rapidly with chapters across the world (five countries and counting), it’s become clear we need visual brand consistency. We wanted to make it easier for our members to access and create high-quality logos for everything from events to websites to Hacks/Hackers gear.
As our brand continues to grow, we also wanted to explain how we ended up with our logo design in the first place.
We’re happy to announce the second gathering of Hacks/Hackers Toronto. This gathering is right in the heart of holiday season, so we’re calling it a holiday gathering.
However, there will be no jolly men in red suits or mistletoe at this event, we assure you. Instead, we will have a handful of local hacks and hackers who will each entertain us with a short, Ignite-style, presentation. Each presentation will explore that special place where journalism and technology collide and will — hopefully!
We had lots of excellent submissions for our Demo Day at New Work City. Thanks for all interest. We are sure to do it again, such that all worthy projects will gain an audience.
Drumroll please. The Hacks/Hackers presenting on December 1.
Kushal Dave, FourSquare engineer, who will present an advance off-the-recordish look at the new FourSquare API. (See the current API) Dan Nguyen of ProPublica, who will review the data gathering and data structuring behind Docs for Dollars.
On Monday November 22, the Atlanta chapter of Hacks/Hackers hosted its inaugural meetup at RíRá Irish Pub in Midtown. Approximately 50 people attended the event , with hacks and hackers from media companies like Turner/CNN, Cox Media Group and the AJC; academics and students from institutions like the University of Georgia, Kennesaw State University and Georgia Tech; entrepreneurs, consultants, small-biz media companies, and many others (including a librarian!)
The next meeting of Hacks/Hackers ATX (and last of 2010) will be on Dec. 8 at the Austin American-Statesman, 6:30-8:30pm. This meeting seeks to bridge the gap between journalists and programmers by explaining some of the terms and techniques of each field. Mattt Thompson, a hacker at Gowalla, will untangle and demystify some of the finer points of the programmer craft. And Matt Stiles of the Texas Tribune will talk about newsroom lingo and processes.
We’re trying to spur ideas/collaboration among Hacks/Hackers members for the Knight News Challenge, a grant program that supports news innovation that has a Dec. 1 deadline. So far more than $20 million has been granted to dozens of projects, including Spot.us, DocumentCloud, Ushahidi and MediaBugs. Who knows? Yours could be next.
The News Challenge gave support to our series of hackathons across the country. Inspired by the collaboration and the people we met, we’ve created a cross-chapter Google doc where you can leave thoughts/contact information/skills.
We’ve updated the Hacks/Hackers membership signup form on Scribd. The changes: new logo, and also knowing what kinds of volunteering we need on a chapter-by-chapter basis — photography and blogging for example. Download and use for your chapter, if you need. Make sure to keep a list of people’s email addresses, as Meetup does not allow us access to that.
Hacks/Hackers Membership Signup Form, Version 2.0
