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Hello, new hacks and hackers! As of last week, he have 1,000 subscribers on this newsletter. So if you haven’t already heard, we hold global open calls for the entire Hacks/Hackers community on the first Wednesday of every month. Please join us next Wednesday, October 5! The

Greetings, hacks and hackers! Toronto just wrapped up a maximum-capacity Connect event: At the same time, the Jakarta hosted the Global Forum for Media Development, the NYC Media Lab held its Annual Summit in New York, Y Combinator’s Startup Conference took place in New Delhi, and the Asian Investigative

The Online Journalism Association held its yearly conference this weekend in Denver, Colorado, and Hacks/Hackers was there to celebrate. Abigail Edge has managed to drum up significant interest – including sponsors! – for the relatively new Colorado chapter by holding happy hours during national events like NICAR. The week ahead: * London

Welcome to another week, hacks and hackers. The Media Party last month saw the creation of several new exciting Meetup groups, like Caracas, Venezuela, and Quito, Ecuador. Spread the word to your friends in the LatAm community! The week ahead: * Mendoza, Argentina, is holding an open gov hackathon * Nairobi is

Welcome to September, hacks and hackers, and happy Labor Day to those laboring in the U.S. Tomorrow we’ll be holding our monthly global call at 1500 GMT. Please join in! The week ahead: * New York is featuring new journalism endeavors on its eighth Demo Day * Miami is holding

Happy Monday, hacks and hackers. Quite a few groups are taking a break this week after a whirlwind of activity last week, and Buenos Aires just wrapped up the Media Party yesterday. Check out the Group Spotlight for some of the highlights of that conference. In other news, registration has