BlogWorld & New Media Expo will be in New York from May 24 to May 26, and Hacks/Hackers is offering members 20% off registration. tl;dr, Updated: Register for BlogWorldExpo with discount code HHVIP20 to get 20% off all registration rates. Register by April 14 to get the lowest price. Full details about the conference and exhibitors can be found on the BlogWorld & New Media Expo website. The longer version:
The Chicago Tribune News Applications team wants to introduce hacks to hackers, thus hosting the April meeting of the Chicago Python Users Group (ChiPy, http://chipy.org) and planning an agenda that should be of crossover interest to journalists and coders alike. Time: Thursday, April 14, 2011 7 pm Place: Tribune Tower, 435 N Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL The main event will be a reprise of Christopher Groskopf‘s PyCon 2011 talk, “Best Practices for Impossible Deadlines,” where he provides a general overview of how the Tribune NewsApps team has developed its methodology for building applications at the speed of news.
Hacks/Hackers Heartland had a lightning talk event on March 24 at the Harper Center of Creighton University in Omaha. Among the presenters: Matt Waite, formerly of St. Petersburg Times and Politifact (now a professor at University of Nebraska), who sees a need for more fundamental hacking. Here is pdf of the slides (light on text, but full of images from the Matrix.) and the video
April 5 Demo Day has been announced. You’ll hear from: Toby Murdock, Kapost publishing system Matt Terenzio, Localeaks anonymous news tips Jonathan Hall, SenseCast Kinect-driven news displays Nathan Freitas, The Guardian Project open-source mobile security Larry Adams, Narrative Science data-driven story generator Steven Romalewski and David Burgoon, OASISnyc interactive New York City maps The lightning talks are 5 minutes a piece, with a brief Q&A after each. Thanks to everyone who submitted a pitch!
We kicked off our first demo event last night with a packed house at Tableau Software (our event sponsor) in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood. More than 50 hacks and hackers packed the meeting space to learn about recent innovations at Tableau, Intersect, The Seattle Times, Journalism That Matters-Pacific Northwest and Microsoft Fuse Labs. Guests also spent a good chunk of time eating, drinking and making connections during the fully catered (thanks, Tableau) networking session that we’re hoping will lead to some cool projects in the near future.
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.
Join Hacks/Hackers Toronto on March 29th for an evening of presentations, demos and chatter on the topic of online communities and journalism. We have three terrific talks planned, and we have an exciting new space to host the event and foster conversation afterwards. Craig Silverman, Ivor Tossell, Kim Fox, Mason Wright, Phillip Smith are hosting. Time: 7 p.m. March 28. Place: Radiolaria 1166 Dundas St West Toronto, ON Itinerary: First, Kim Fox of CBC News online and Jennifer MacMillan of The Globe and Mail will talk about different approaches to story comments — why we open stories to comments, when to allow them and factors to consider.
Great opportunity for hacks and hackers. Early stage investor NYC SeedStart is taking applications now for its 12-week media-focused bootcamp. The program offers seed funding to two-person (or more) teams based in New York focused on creating media products for digital content, mobile technology, advertising infrastructure or e-commerce. The application deadline is March 31. The program will give up to 10 companies $20,000, office space, and time in exchange for a small piece of equity (5%).
UPDATE: Watch UStream video of the 2011 Seattle Hacks/Hackers demo beginning at 6:3o p.m. on Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Free live streaming by Ustream Thanks to everyone who submitted entries for our first demo event! We received far more applications than we could accommodate for this first round. The bad news: We couldn’t possibly fit all of your presentation pitches into one event. The good news: We’re already thinking of new ways to feature innovative projects, products and ideas in the coming months!
We’re hosting a News+Gaming hackathon on April 22 and 23, at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, sponsored by Seattle-based BigDoor, which offers a gamification API. To participate, register on our Meetup.com page. We will have great food. The agenda: – Friday, April 22, 6:30 p.m.: Social event with talks about gaming mechanics (alcohol too!). Find hack day partners for Saturday and share ideas. – Saturday, April 23: Daylong hackathon at CUNY in midtown starting at ~9 a.