Greetings, hacks and hackers. By the time you read this next newsletter, the American president will have been chosen (finally), so let’s take a look at what other countries are up to in the meantime.
Hacks/Hackers Dublin is promoting the Investigative Journalism on the Digital Frontier Conference taking place in Ireland, but they’re not the only ones pushing digital boundaries this weekend. Buenos Aires, a veritable hotbed of hackathons, is holding its first hackathon on “institutional violence,” a threat to human rights in Latin America and everywhere.
It’s almost election time in the U.S., hacks and hackers! Please join us next Wednesday as reporters catch up after Media Party Africa and batten down the hatches for the American election. The global open call will take place at 1500 UTC (find your local time here).
The week ahead:
The Hacks/Hackers global call takes place on Wednesday Helsinki is meeting to discuss a media innovation contest Miami is holding its regular OpenHack Miami IRE in Missouri is holding its weekly meeting Chapter spotlight:
This weekend, a third Hacks/Hackers group held its own Media Party, this time in South Africa. The sold-out event is bringing 350 attendees plus speakers from around the world to Cape Town to discuss African media innovation and civic technology. Miami held its second Media Party in April, and of course Buenos Aires holds the trophy for the original Media Party, which celebrated its fifth anniversary this year in Argentina.
Greetings, hacks and hackers! There’s been significant interest in starting new Hacks/Hackers chapters from North America to Latin America to Asia over the past few months. One of the newest members of the family, Caracas, held their first event last weekend: #DataYTequeños (cheesy sticks):
Un poco de lo que se vivió hoy en el primer encuentro de #hhccs pic.twitter.com/1ALi9PLQ54
— HacksHackers Caracas (@hackshackersccs) October 9, 2016 The next to get started is Taipei, so if you know anyone in Taiwan, spread the word!
Welcome to October, hacks and hackers! The Investigating Asia conference took place in Kathmandu last week, as did digital journalism convenings on practically every other continent.
While we’re still digesting the tips and tools from those events, investigative journalism conferences in Africa and the Middle East have already been announced for the upcoming months.
On Sale Now: Book your seat at the #Africa Investigative Journalism Conference #AIJC16 https://t.co/q2COnKR5z2 pic.twitter.com/AWo7xsEVYG
— GIJN Africa (@gijnAfrica) August 7, 2016 The week ahead:
Hello, new hacks and hackers! As of last week, he have 1,000 subscribers on this newsletter. So if you haven’t already heard, we hold global open calls for the entire Hacks/Hackers community on the first Wednesday of every month. Please join us next Wednesday, October 5!
The week ahead:
Hacks/Hackers is holdings its monthly global open call. Everyone welcome! Montreal is sharing the best cloud-based tools for journalists Miami is holding its regular OpenHack Miami IRE in Missouri is holding its weekly meeting Chapter spotlight:
Greetings, hacks and hackers! Toronto just wrapped up a maximum-capacity Connect event:
We Did It, and It Is Up To Us! Thank you Toronto! #hhconnect #futureofmedia #cdnmedia #futureofjournalism pic.twitter.com/GU6NB6uwnP
— Phillip Smith (@phillipadsmith) September 25, 2016 At the same time, the Jakarta hosted the Global Forum for Media Development, the NYC Media Lab held its Annual Summit in New York, Y Combinator’s Startup Conference took place in New Delhi, and the Asian Investigative Journalism Conference happened in Kathmandu.
The Online Journalism Association held its yearly conference this weekend in Denver, Colorado, and Hacks/Hackers was there to celebrate. Abigail Edge has managed to drum up significant interest – including sponsors! – for the relatively new Colorado chapter by holding happy hours during national events like NICAR.
Drinks are on us during @HacksHackersCO #ONA2016 meetup! More details: https://t.co/NMwomfwTfM pic.twitter.com/VvEtNQk7B6
— name.com (@namedotcom) September 7, 2016 The week ahead:
London is discussing “interactive imagery” for its September meetup Birmingham is hosting a series of lightning talks Miami is holding its regular OpenHack Miami IRE in Missouri is holding its weekly meeting Chapter spotlight:
Welcome to another week, hacks and hackers. The Media Party last month saw the creation of several new exciting Meetup groups, like Caracas, Venezuela, and Quito, Ecuador. Spread the word to your friends in the LatAm community!
Les tengo una increíble noticia. Oficialmente tenemos hacks&hackers en Caracas.Únete y planifiquemos ya un encuentro https://t.co/JBqOC67f1S
— Katherine Pennacchio (@KathyPennacchio) September 3, 2016 The week ahead:
Mendoza, Argentina, is holding an open gov hackathon Nairobi is discussing cyber security Miami is holding its regular OpenHack Miami IRE in Missouri is holding its weekly meeting Colorado is hosting an afterparty for the ONA conference Halifax is getting together to plan their next session Atlanta is teaching “non-coding for hacks” at the Atlanta Press Club Chapter spotlight:
Welcome to September, hacks and hackers, and happy Labor Day to those laboring in the U.S. Tomorrow we’ll be holding our monthly global call at 1500 GMT. Please join in!
The week ahead:
New York is featuring new journalism endeavors on its eighth Demo Day Miami is holding its regular OpenHack Miami IRE in Missouri is holding its weekly meeting It’s another #HacktheConstitution day in Johannesburg Chapter spotlight: