After a few months spent toiling in the Hacks/Hackers laboratory, we’re back and happy to announce the details for Connect events in San Francisco, London, and NYC.
Hold the date The San Francisco event will take place on the weekend of January 22 at the startup co-working space Runway, followed by events in London on the weekend of February 5 at Rainmaking Loft, and New York City on the weekend of February 26 at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
Happy Wednesday! Watch for news soon from Hacks/Hackers about the next Connect events in New York, San Francisco and London.
The week ahead:
Hacks/Hackers IRE in Columbia, Mo., will hear about research into the page load times of news websites. In Los Angeles, the chapter will hear about three projects during a Show and Tell with the L,A, Times Data Desk. In Lima, Hacks/Hackers chats with the Electronic Frontier Foundation about defending digital privacy.
A wonderful moment happened last week: Hacks/Hackers folks from all over the world met up in London at MozFest to brainstorm the future of Hacks/Hackers. They chatted about how they what Hacks/Hackers mission, structure and activities could look like in 2017. For more about the group talked about, notes are here: bit.ly/hhroots Check out all their smiling faces:
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The week ahead for Hacks/Hackers:
In Buenos Aires, the chapter brings together several speakers on “cybersurveillance, big data and human rights.
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The week ahead for Hacks/Hackers:
In London, folks from several different chapters attend MozFest and host a session about Hacks/Hackers. If you’re a Hack/Hacker in London or at MozFest, you may also be interested in this pre-event event hosted by OpenNews and News Labs. The chapters in Columbia, Mo.
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*The week ahead for Hacks/Hackers:*
In *Montréal* tonight, they’ll be learning about Crypto 101 – Secure communication for journalists – including understanding encryption and tools to use for protection from government surveillance. In *Zürich*, the chapter will hear how Neue Zürcher Zeitung built this beautiful 3-D interactive about the first ascent of the Matterhorn.
Happy Wednesday. Hacks/Hackers Austin celebrated its 5th birthday last night with cake, tacos and an event on media innovation. Cheers to another 5 years!
*The week ahead for Hacks/Hackers:*
The *Miami* Hacks/Hackers chapter holds a Q&A with the founders of the media startup The New Tropic. In *Vancouver*, the local chapter is meeting up for a social event, to commiserate about the seasons changing (and relax now that the national election is complete).
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*The week ahead for Hacks/Hackers:*
Hacks/Hackers-IRE in *Columbia, Mo.*, gathers to discuss CSS preprocessors LESS & SASS. Hacks/Hackers *Austin* is celebrating its 5th birthday with an event on media innovation, with speakers Burt Herman, Trei Brundrett and Anna Tauzin.
All around the world last week, Hacks/Hackers chapters met on topics as varied as web scraping in Python to net neutrality to new storytelling techniques at Zeit Online. In New York City, a panel of four professor/journalists talked about the joys and challenges of teaching data + journalism. A couple of photos:
The week ahead for Hacks/Hackers:
Hacks/Hackers-IRE in Columbia, Mo., will be talking about how to create custom map styles with TileMill.
Last week Hacks/Hackers chapters around the world tackled a ton of great topics: developer newsroom culture, chat apps, experimental video approaches, interactive news web apps in Angular and so much more.
On a personal note, it was wonderful to meet some Hacks/Hackers organizers at the Online News Association conference in Los Angeles last week. I hope to find more chances to meet Hacks/Hackers organizers and members face-to-face. Y’all are a good group of folks.
Welcome to the new Hacks/Hackers weekly newsletter. This newsletter aims to be a service to you – a way for you to learn from and about what’s going on in the 75(!) Hacks/Hackers chapters around the world. The newsletter has four parts (for now – ’til you suggest others):
“Chapter spotlight” gives you a quick window into the life of one chapter. If you’d like to nominate a chapter (or an exceptional organizer), let me (Julia Haslanger, the author of this newsletter) know.