[Guest post by Dave Riordan, Product Manager, NYPL Labs]
Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting and speaking at the incredible Hacks/Hackers NYC meetup, a collective of some of the most talented and interesting folks in New York with a bent toward building a better-informed citizenry through journalism, technology and design. They welcomed us and we fit right in.
Rather than have myself and Ben Vershbow do our traditional dog-and-pony show (that poor, poor pony), the entire Labs team got up on stage to share some of our most interesting projects and technical investigations, several of which were shown for the first time.
With more than 970 participants from three continents, the Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires Media Party became “the world’s largest event of Hacks/Hackers in the history of this organization”, according to Dan Sinker, director of Knight-Mozilla OpenNews, who came to the meetup. Held Aug. 29-31 in Ciudad Cultural Konex, Buenos Aires, the largest media festival in Latin America brought together journalists, software programmers and designers to work for the future of media.
Con más de 970 participantes de tres continentes, la Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires Media Party, se convirtió en “el evento de Hacks/Hackers más grande del mundo en la historia de esa organización”, según aseguró Dan Sinker, director de Knight-Mozilla Open News presente en el encuentro. Durante tres días, la fiesta productiva de medios más grande de América latina reunió periodistas, programadores de software y diseñadores para trabajar por el futuro de los medios, del 29 al 31 de Agosto de 2013 en Ciudad Cultural Konex, Buenos Aires.
Yes! The Danish chapter of Hacks/Hackers is now rolling. Huge support for mixer and great support for an event committee to help create future events.
Hacks/Hackers NYC gathered for Demo Day 5 at Pivotal Labs for another inspiring mashup of startups hacking the future of content. The Summer 2013 demos by the Hacks/Hackers NYC community explored technology to better visualize information and tell compelling stories. They ranged from editorial visualizations and video interactives, to query searches, to building transparency in health costs. Each presentation was limited to 5 minutes followed by a 5 minute Q&A by the audience.
Building on the excitement around data journalism at our previous hackathon, Hacks/Hackers New Delhi recently paired up with the Hindustan Times — one of India’s leading English newspapers — to host a showcase of innovative data journalism work going on in the country.
The goal was to share best practices when it comes to using data to source, tell and visualize stories.
Avinash Celestine of the Economic Times started off by explaining how he’s using open data – particularly Indian government census data – to answer big questions about socioeconomic trends on his Datastories blog.
Unos días antes de realizar nuestra primera Media Party en agosto de 2012, nuestro capitulo de Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires se dio cuenta de que íbamos a necesitar un megáfono para anunciar algunas de nuestras actividades a los cientos de participantes.
Pregunté por Twitter quién tenía uno: alguien lo dejó en la puerta el primer día del evento y lo devolví unos meses después.
El proceso de construcción colectiva es arduo y azaroso, pero siempre entretenido.
Hacks/Hackers Austin was one of several organizations that helped bring the Code With Me Workshop to the Texas capital city on May 18-19. Along with the local Online News Association and the Austin American-Statesman, with generous funding from the Knight-Mozilla Open News project and Texas State University, Code With Me provided of HTML, CSS and JavaScript skills for journalists. The workshop is the brainchild of Sisi Wei of Propublica and Tom Giratikanon of The New York Times.
Hacks/Hackers Rosario (HHROS) is already a reality. On Thursday, April 25, the second Argentine chapter of Hacks/Hackers (HH) had its first meetup in ClubdeFun Bar, with more than 60 attendees.
Programmers, journalists, designers, entrepreneurs, technologists and IT professionals gathered at the venue to attend the talks offered by Ezequiel Clerici (Journalist and co-organizer of Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires and HHROS), Pablo Cuadrado (Mozilla Argentina ), Dart Ceballos (Bachelor of Social Communication, digital reporter and co-organizer of HHROS) and Mariano Blejman (Knight International Journalism Fellow at International Center For Journalists and co-founder of Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires).
On April 1, Hacks/Hackers ATX (in conjunction with ONA Austin) hosted Ben Jones and Jewell Loree of Tableau Public. The pair went through the comprehensive offering that Tableau provides for data visualization.
The meeting opened with a presentation from Harsh Patel of MakerSquare, a new organization providing Web development training in the Austin area.
Many thanks to Christian McDonald for arranging this event with refreshments sponsored by Tableau Public.