Almost two years ago, a couple of people interested in computer programming in journalism brainstormed an idea for a website where software developers working in journalism and media could go to get solutions to their programming problems from their peers.
The site — at help.hackshackers.com — has been running since**launched in **April 2010, attracting more than 200 registered users, 145 questions and more than 500,000 page views.
The question now for Hacks/Hackers members is: Should the site continue to exist?
We kicked off the “Coding for Beginners” intro course at New York City’s General Assembly with Dan Nguyen tonight. It sold out in a day. And we are working on scheduling more classes..
It was packed.
Update: It’s sold out and we are seeing huge demand for another class. So we are working on finding new time/space.
Hacks/Hackers is teaming up with tech space General Assembly to start offering courses in the digital journalism space! Our first offering is by Dan Nguyen (@dancow), a news application developer at Pro Publica (and photographer of many of our Hacks/Hackers events), who will be teaching “Coding for Beginners.”
Date & Time: Thursday, March 24, 8-9:30 p.
Hacks/Hackers Austin kicked off the first meeting of 2011 with an Intro to Django session, presented by Jon Loyens, Director of Bazaarvoice Labs. Loyens did a short presentation on Django as a Python-based Web framework, and then moved into a live demo. You enjoy photos and video of the session below. More photos available on the Meetup.com page.
Once again, there was a good crowd, this time at the offices of the Texas Tribune.