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NYC December 1st Demo Day line-up

We had lots of excellent submissions for our Demo Day at New Work City. Thanks for all interest. We are sure to do it again, such that all worthy projects will gain an audience. Drumroll please. The Hacks/Hackers presenting on December 1. * Kushal Dave, FourSquare engineer, who will present

Atlanta’s Hacks/Hackers first event with a Knight NewsChallenge Panel

On Monday November 22, the Atlanta group of Hacks/Hackers hosted its inaugural meetup at RíRá Irish Pub in Midtown. Approximately 50 people attended the event , with hacks and hackers from media companies like Turner/CNN, Cox Media Group and the AJC; academics and students from institutions like the University

Hacks/Hackers ATX – Lingo Swap for Programmers and Journalists

The next meeting of Hacks/Hackers ATX (and last of 2010) will be on Dec. 8 at the Austin American-Statesman, 6:30-8:30pm. This meeting seeks to bridge the gap between journalists and programmers by explaining some of the terms and techniques of each field. Mattt Thompson, a hacker at

Public media needs coding collaborators

_Public broadcasters — National Public Radio, the Public Broadcasting System and their local affiliates — are playing a significant role in leading media innovation in the 21st century. This is the second of two guest posts about the various projects of “pubmedia” — by which the author refers mainly to public broadcasters and

Collaborate on your Knight News Challenge ideas

We’re trying to spur ideas/collaboration among Hacks/Hackers members for the Knight News Challenge, a grant program that supports news innovation that has a Dec. 1 deadline. So far more than $20 million has been granted to dozens of projects, including Spot.us, DocumentCloud, Ushahidi and MediaBugs. Who

Download the new Hacks/Hackers membership signup form

We’ve updated the Hacks/Hackers membership signup form on Scribd. The changes: new logo, and also knowing what kinds of volunteering we need on a group-by-group basis — photography and blogging for example. Download and use for your group, if you need. Make sure to keep a list of people’

Hacks, hackers invited to participate in Random Hacks of Kindness, Dec. 4-5

On December 4th and 5th, Random Hacks of Kindness is holding a multi-city hackathon to create software to “mitigate or respond to disasters around the world and save lives.” The Hacks/Hackers community is invited to participate. The organizers of Random Hacks of Kindness think both developers and journalists — who