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News Hackathon Austin on Oct. 16: Hacks/Hackers/Hacking

On October 16, Hacks/Hackers ATX presents a day-long Hackathon bringing journalists, news bloggers, and government employees together with technology developers to create data-driven news applications, seeking and making sense of open data available from the State of Texas and other sources. The day will start with examples of data-driven

NYC’s Open(source).athon: Coding, Bao and Demos

Put more than forty Hacks/Hackers members in the gorgeous OpenPlans penthouse with plentiful caffeine, wifi, and a coding mission and you have the first Hacks/Hackers open(source).athon in New York City, which took place on October 2 and attracted participants from as Chicago (from The Chicago Tribune)

Hacks/Hackers Austin Sept. 30 Debut Meetup Draws > 40

The Austin group of Hacks/Hackers kicked off with a social meetup on September 30 at Austin’s Pizza near The University of Texas campus. More than 40 communicators and coders got together for some pizza and beverage, with lots of promise that these initial contacts will lead to some

Open(source).athon in NYC kicks off

Hi from the inaugural Hacks/Hackers NYC Hackathon, where the caffeine has been replenished and the coders are getting down to geekery. For the full-real time experience, you can follow @opensourceathon and watch #hackshackers. I’ll be blogging notes from the day, recapping the speakers’ presentations and chronicling what the

Hacks/Hackers NYC and Facebook: Making Your News Social

(Photo of the Hacks/Hackers NYC meetup at OpenPlans by Dan Nguyen/Flickr) You asked for the slides from Justin Osofsky’s Facebook for publishers presentation, and we’ve got ’em, along with statistics. Working Together to Build Social News We’ll have notes from the meetup in a bit…

Data And Metadata In News Gathering and Management by Hacks/Hacks NYC

(A big thanks to Daniel Bachhuber for initiating notes on TypeWithMe.com, with help from Greg Linch and Chrys Wu. This is version 5 of the notes, lightly edited, with more context added.) Since time immemorial, two major knowledge management questions have bedeviled news organizations. First, when faced with a

Come for the ONA conference, stay for the hacking

Hacks/Hackers is hosting a hackathon in conjunction with the annual Online News Association conference that is being held Oct. 28-30 this year in Washington DC. We’re calling it Hacks/Hackers/Hacking. With all the journalistic and Web talent gathered in one place, this will be an amazing chance