Newsletter: Nov. 4, 2015: Hacks/Hackers at MozFest | Events in Singapore, Bengaluru | Job openings

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The week ahead for Hacks/Hackers:

• In London, folks from several different groups attend MozFest and host a session about Hacks/Hackers. If you’re a Hack/Hacker in London or at MozFest, you may also be interested in this pre-event event hosted by OpenNews and News Labs.
• The groups in Columbia, Mo., and Miami both hold their regular open lab hours.
• Hacks/Hackers India, as a launch event for a new group in Bengaluru, holds an event on how to connect with a social news audience.
• In Singapore, the group hosts a post-mortem and open critique on election graphics from the recent general election.

Group spotlight:

The Islamabad group held its first meetup on Monday. A good group of more than a dozen people came out to discuss using earthquake data. Check out photos on Hacks/Hackers Pakistan’s Facebook page and tweets from the event.

Job openings:

• MediaShift is hiring a metrics section editor/curator. (Submitted by Mark Glaser)
• The Seattle Times is looking for a summer digital intern (Submitted by Thomas Wilburn)
• The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), a project of the Center for Public Integrity, is hiring a server administrator and web developer. (Submitted by Hamish Boland-Rudder)

(Have a job opening to share? Let us know.)

Worth a read:

• Dispatches from The 19 Million Project meeting in Rome about the migration crisis, including lots of cool interactives and some open-source code. Mariana Santos, a longtime Hacks/Hackers organizer, has been streaming on Periscope some interesting sessions from the gathering.
• National Geographic Society sets biggest layoff in its history (The Washington Post)
• Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley Leaves Company Because Of Diversity Issues (TechCrunch)
• How We Moved 34,000 WIRED Pages to One Site in 9 Hours (Wired)
• First steps in data journalism in Spain (Maria Crosas, dinfografia)

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