Dublin (and others) traverse the digital frontier

Greetings, hacks and hackers. By the time you read this next newsletter, the American president will have been chosen (finally), so let’s take a look at what other countries are up to in the meantime.

Hacks/Hackers Dublin is promoting the Investigative Journalism on the Digital Frontier Conference taking place in Ireland, but they’re not the only ones pushing digital boundaries this weekend. Buenos Aires, a veritable hotbed of hackathons, is holding its first hackathon on “institutional violence,” a threat to human rights in Latin America and everywhere.

The week ahead:

• Singapore is taking on 3D graphics
• Dublin is attending the Investigative Journalism on the Digital Frontier Conference
• Buenos Aires is hosting its first hackathon on institutional violence
• Miami is holding its regular OpenHack Miami
• IRE in Missouri is holding its weekly meeting
• South Wales is holding its first event

Group spotlight:

Taipei went a pretty ambitious route with its very first meetup last month: they held a QGIS workshop with two instructors and a pretty full turnout

Hacks/Hackers groups are always striving to find the best way to communicate with members and organize events. For their part, co-organizers Silva Shih and Kirby Wu made a variety of online homes for the group, including a Twitter, website and Github. Future months will hopefull indicate which are the most useful and popular.

Worth a read:

• ProPublica is swooping in to take over Sunlight Labs’ various open government projects, saving them from extinction (ProPublica)
• Facebook lets advertisers exclude viewers by race, adding to its already dubious content distribution practices (ProPublica)
• “Content-recommendation companies” like Outbrain are wearing out their welcome at media companies (NYT)
• Mic is experimenting with videos that play on the iPhone – before the owner has even unlocked the screen (NiemanLab)

Job openings:

• North America:
• The Daily Dot is looking for a tech writer
• CBS MoneyWatch is hiring a data editor
• The Marshall Project has an opening for an editorial designer
• ObserverMedia is hiring a front-end engineer
• Wirecutter, which was just bought by the NYT, has nine openings
• NYTLabs alum Alexis Lloyd is looking for a data viz designer for a new startup
• WaPo is hiring a graphics reporter and designer
• The Texas Tribune has a data viz opening
• Europe:
• The Sun in London is hiring a tech and science reporter
• University College Dublin has an opening for professor in digital communication

Other upcoming events:

• November:
• Nov 7-9 – Johannesburg, South Africa – African Investigative Journalism Conference
• Nov 11-13 – Dublin, Ireland – Hacks/Hackers Dublin’s Investigative Journalism on the Digital Frontier Conference
• Nov 18-19 – Leuven, Belgium – VVOJ conference, a gathering of the Dutch-Flemish Association of Investigative Journalists
• Nov 19-20 – London, UK – the Parliament Accountability Hack, aka ParlyHack
• Nov 22 – Birminghham, UK – a one-day data journalism conference
• Nov 22-23 – Covilha, Portugal – the Journalism and Mobile Devices Congress
• Nov 23-24 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – European Women in Technology Conference
• December:
• Dec 1-4 – Panama City, Panama – the International Anti-Corruption Conference
• Dec 2-3 – Dead Sea, Jordan – the Arab Investigative Journalism Conference