Join the Hacks/Hackers August open call tomorrow

Welcome, hacks and hackers. We’ve already reached the end of July, a month that saw more than three dozen Hacks/Hackers meetups across the world. That’s more than one per day!

A new month also means a new global open call. Join us tomorrow at 1500 GMT!

Week ahead:

• Miami is holding its regular OpenHack Miami
• IRE in Missouri is holding its weekly meeting
• Hacks/Hackers is holding its global open call

Group spotlight:

Uruguay hosted a panel last week to discuss making data projects that are both engaging and reusable. The group relaunched earlier this summer by holding their third annual DataCampUY. Organizer Manuel Podetti, who helped reboot the group, suggested groups try to hold regular events to keep the group active, perhaps leaning on other groups to help with planning.

“When you are planning a event, it’s good to organize it with other organizations. This allows you to add new people to H / H and learn from other communities.”

Worth a read:

• The definition of “sponsored content” is shifting, mostly thanks to Facebook (NYTimes)
• One of Wikileaks’ recent data dumps included private information on nearly every woman in Turkey (Huffington Post)
• Press rights groups are protesting the Turkish government’s decision to crack down on the media (Guardian)
• Adblockers are controversial among readers and publishers both, but they’re making their own money off of ads (Wired)

Job openings:

• Africa:
• ICJF is offering a year-long fellowship to work with Code for Africa
• North America:
• Toronto’s Global News is hiring an investigative/data journalist
• Solutions Journalism is hiring a university relations manager
• News startup the Texas Tribune is hiring a software engineer
• Arizona State University’s student newspaper is hiring a Technologist in Residence
• The Puget Sound Business Journal is seeking a tech reporter
• Minnesota Public Radio is looking for a product designer
• The San Diego Union-Tribune is seeking a data reporter
• 18F, a data and innovation arm of the U.S. government, has several openings
• Europe:
• New Scientist magazine is hiring a technology editor
• The German Research Centre for Geosciences is hiring a data scientist
• The Tab, a student reporting network, is hiring a full-stack developer in London

Other upcoming events:

• August:
• Aug 10-13 – Syndey, Australia – Storyology, a journalism and storytelling conference
• Aug 25-27 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – the Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires media party
• September:
• Sept 15-17 – Denver, USA – Online News Association (ONA)’s annual conference
• Sept 17-20 – New Orleans, USA – Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism conference
• Sept 20-22 – Jakarta, Indonesia – Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)
• Sept. 22 – New York, USA – NYC Media Lab Annual Summit, for executives, academics and startups to convene around future of media
• (Hacks/Hackers community members can register with a 25% off discount code: HACKSHACKER)
• Sept 23-24 – Toronto, Canada – Hacks/Hackers Connect Toronto
• Sept 23-25 – Kathmandu, Nepal – Asian Investigative Journalism Conference
• Sept 29-Oct 1 – Miami, USA – Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium
• Sept 30-Oct 1 – Stanford, USA – Computation + Journalism Symposium