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Hacks/Hackers Toronto Meetup Oct. 21

Hacks/Hackers is coming to Canada. A new Toronto group has been founded and its first meetup is Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. at the Press Club (850 Dundas St. W.). Those interested in attending can register at meetupTO.hackshackers.com, and anyone with questions can email toronto@hackshackers.

Riotstartr wins grand prize at Independent Media Mobile Hackathon in Chicago

Public media is investing in major digital projects

_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 first of two guest posts about the various projects of “pubmedia” — by which the author refers mainly to public broadcasters and

Inside the Knight News Challenge at Bay Area Hacks/Hackers

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)

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