Meetups
Introducing the Open(source).athon in NYC
The Hacks/Hackers NYC is throwing an open(source).athon in the OpenPlans penthouse on Oct 2 to see how much great software for news/information we can open source in 12 hours?
If you are a hacker, bring your code and get the time and some help to push
Chicago Debut Meetup: September 15 at the Holiday Club
Hacks/Hackers Chicago is getting into gear with its first Meetup on Wednesday, Sept. 15 from 6-8 p.m. at the Holiday Club (4000 N Sheridan Road). More details below
Meet up, geek out, and enjoy complimentary food and beverages with programmers, journalists and others in Chicago’s media and
ProPublica Redesign Involves the Readers in Complex Stories
At ProPublica, we make a habit of sharing. We give our biggest stories for free to news organizations, and we hand out recipes for some of our most complex investigations. We encourage other news organizations to steal our stories, and give out, free to use, clean, reliable, analyzed data that
Google’s ‘Living Stories’: An End to Static Online News
Source code for Living Stories (including a WordPress plugin) can be downloaded from Google Code.
The Launch of Hacks/Hackers London
We’re delighted to announce that the first international group of Hacks/Hackers got off to a fantastic start yesterday.
Having originally expected a modest turnout, we were bowled over when more than 50 journalists and coders gathered at The Shooting Star pub in Spitalfields on Wednesday evening for the
August 18 NYC Meetup: Learning From Google’s Living Stories
Next meetup: Wednesday, August 18, at the NYC Google offices, where we will discuss the concept of “Living Stories.” Presentation starts at 7 p.m., but come early and socialize (and gawk) at 6 p.m.
Google, in a three-month experiment with The New York Times and The Washington Post,