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St. Louis Hacks/Hackers sets ‘awesome’ goal

The first St. Louis group meet-up was a great success. Fifteen hacks and hackers met for happy hour last Thursday, and expectations are high. When asked “Hacks/Hackers should ___,” the overwhelming answer was “be awesome.” (There was also a vote for “be pretty.” We’re going to try for both.

St. Louis Hacks/Hackers meetup Thursday

St. Louis is joining the Hacks/Hackers community. The first STL Hacks/Hackers meetup will be 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4 at The Dubliner in downtown St. Louis. RSVP at on.fb.me/STLhh. St. Louis has a large and very active programming community, and several

Hacks/Hackers Toronto Meetup Oct. 21

Hacks/Hackers is coming to Canada. A new Toronto group has been founded and its first meetup is Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. at the Press Club (850 Dundas St. W.). Those interested in attending can register at meetupTO.hackshackers.com, and anyone with questions can email toronto@hackshackers.

Inside the Knight News Challenge at Bay Area Hacks/Hackers

Hacks/Hackers Austin Sept. 30 Debut Meetup Draws > 40

The Austin group of Hacks/Hackers kicked off with a social meetup on September 30 at Austin’s Pizza near The University of Texas campus. More than 40 communicators and coders got together for some pizza and beverage, with lots of promise that these initial contacts will lead to some

Hacks/Hackers NYC and Facebook: Making Your News Social

(Photo of the Hacks/Hackers NYC meetup at OpenPlans by Dan Nguyen/Flickr) You asked for the slides from Justin Osofsky’s Facebook for publishers presentation, and we’ve got ’em, along with statistics. Working Together to Build Social News We’ll have notes from the meetup in a bit…

Data And Metadata In News Gathering and Management by Hacks/Hacks NYC

(A big thanks to Daniel Bachhuber for initiating notes on TypeWithMe.com, with help from Greg Linch and Chrys Wu. This is version 5 of the notes, lightly edited, with more context added.) Since time immemorial, two major knowledge management questions have bedeviled news organizations. First, when faced with a