Hacks/Hackers global call coming up tomorrow!

Welcome to July, hacks and hackers! In the first half of 2016, H/H groups held nearly 100 meetups in dozens of cities. We also held seven Connect events from San Francisco to London, with another coming up in Toronto in a couple months.

Tomorrow, we’re holding our monthly global call, so please join in!

The week ahead:

• Miami is holding OpenHack Miami
• IRE is meeting for its regular open lab
• Hacks/Hackers is holding its global monthly call

Group spotlight:

London held its June meetup last week, looking at polling data just before the Europe-shaking Brexit vote. The London meetups draw huge crowds of up to 200 people a month, so the organizers built a list of tasks ahead of time.

Organizer Joanna Geary shared the templates they use for assigning roles and tasks. “This means everyone knows what they have to do and stops too many last-minute panics!” she said.

Worth a read:

• That surge of Britons “frantically Googling” the EU after Brexit turned out to be under than a thousand people (Medium)
• The FAA finally announced its rules for drones, and Matt Waite explains what that means for drone journalists (Drone Journalism Lab)
• Social networks are quietly beginning to ban extremist content using algorithms (Reuters)

Job openings:

• Europe:
• The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is hiring a Data Lab director
• Storyful is hiring a journalist in the UK
• North America:
• Vox is hiring a graphics reporter in Washington, D.C.
• Conde Nast is hiring a data engineer in New York
• The NYT has several data analyst positions open
• The New Yorker is looking for an editorial production developer
• EdSurge is seeking a data journalist to cover education technology
• The Good Search, an ethical executive search company, wants to hire a data research associate
• Africa:
• CodeforAfrica is hiring for several positions, including senior Python developer

Other upcoming events:

• July 19 – Austin, Texas, USA – Front Porch, a conference for web design and development
• July 28-29 – Portland, Oregon, USA – SRC CON, a Mozilla conference for journalist coders
• July 29-31 – Atlanta, USA – the first Women Who Code hackathon
• Sept. 22: NYC Media Lab Annual Summit, for executives, academics and startups to convene around future of media