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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.