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The week ahead for Hacks/Hackers:

• Hacks/Hackers-IRE in Columbia, Mo., gathers to discuss CSS preprocessors LESS & SASS.
• Hacks/Hackers Austin is celebrating its 5th birthday with an event on media innovation, with speakers Burt Herman, Trei Brundrett and Anna Tauzin. Happy birthday, Austin group!
• In Dublin, the group meets up to talk about how ‘data’ is used as a tool for investigative journalism in Ireland.
• The Miami Hacks/Hackers group is getting together for a Q&A with the founders of the media startup The New Tropic.
• Two notable events more than a week ahead: MozFest in London and I-Con leadership event in Miami.

Group Spotlight: @HacksHackersDEL

Hacks/Hackers Delhi brought together more than a half-dozen speakers to discuss different approaches for reaching a mobile news audience. Check out the Storify by Aayush Soni for a great recap, or search the hashtag #mobilexnews to see tons of live-tweets from the event.

These photos and more on the event’s Facebook page.

Worth a read:

• NICAR-L adds a Spanish-language data journalism listserv (IRE)
• Twitter lays off 8 percent of the company (TechCrunch)
• What AMP (maybe) means for news developers (by Ted Han, Justin Reese, Thomas Wilburn, and Julia Wolfe for Source)
• Github Gitdown: Unlocking the potential of the world’s largest co-creation platform (Phillip Smith)
• WNYC is ready to make a $15 million move into podcasts (Nieman Lab)
• Society for News Design to expand its training for journalists and technologists with $130,000 from Knight Foundation (Knight Foundation)
• The New York Times strategy memo (CNN Money)
• Google Launches Cloud Datalab, an interactive tool for exploring and visualizing data (TechCrunch)
• Two resource guides on data journalism recently shared by Hacks/Hackers groups: 7 free resources for data journalism (Carolina Cristanchi, in Spanish), Intro to Data and Code (Lena Groeger)
• Data Viz: Humanitarian buzzword explorer and bingo (Ben Parker, IRIN News)
• Fusion and Univision start “The 19 Million Project” about migration crisis (spearheaded by Mariana Santos, who is now Director of Interactive Projects at Fusion, and with several other longtime Hacks/Hackers organizers taking part, including Hacks/Hackers Miami organizer Rachel Schallom)

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