Hacks/Hackers Connect Brussels is almost upon us! You still have a few days to register, so spread the word! We’re excited to hold our third Connect event in Europe and to host a session on Google’s Digital News Initiative. It will take place the day the second round of applications open, June 2nd.
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Happy Friday, hacks and hackers! We’re excited to bring the Connect series to Brussels in just two weeks. Connect Brussels is a pan-European event with participants attending from across the EU. Like all Connect events the focus is on building a vibrant media entrepreneurship community — only a few spots remain, so register today and spread the word to your colleagues in the region.
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Happy Friday the 13th, hacks and hackers. #HHConnect Miami fires off today and continues throughout the weekend:
The week ahead:
Miami and IRE are holding their regular weekly open labs Helsinki is taking a look at news orgs’ analytics, including some on gender balance The #PanamaPapers talks keep boomeranging around the world, this week reaching Munich London is featuring speakers from a tech community, an innovation agency and a political nonprofit Chapter spotlight:
Welcome to May, hacks and hackers. Miami is gearing up for its highly anticipated Connect event next weekend, with Brussels coming up next month. Go here to express your interest in attending, or follow along at #hhconnect.
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Miami is holding its regular Monday OpenHack IRE will hold its regular Wednesday lab Miami will also be hosting the twttr.
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:
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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:
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '712666768171380736', document.getElementById('tweet-container-712666768171380736'), ); 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. Please help us spread the word!
The week ahead: