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Do You Want to Play a Game? News + Gaming hackathon on April 22-23

We’re hosting a News+Gaming hackathon on April 22 and 23, at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, sponsored by Seattle-based BigDoor, which offers a gamification API. To participate, register on our Meetup.com page. We will have great food. The agenda: – Friday, April 22, 6:30 p.m.: Social

Coding for Beginners, taught by Dan Nguyen at General Assembly, Thursday, 3/24 8 pm

Update: It’s sold out and we are seeing huge demand for another class. So we are working on finding new time/space. Hacks/Hackers is teaming up with tech space General Assembly to start offering courses in the digital journalism space! Our first offering is by Dan Nguyen (@dancow)

Hacks/Hackers party at SXSW

[View the story “The “Awesomest Journalism Party” Leaves its Marq” on Storify]

Demo Day 2 at Hacks/Hackers NYC on April 5

In December, we had held a Demo Day with 5-minute lightning talks (presentations) from ProPublica, OpenGovernment.org, Slate, TPM and others. We’re holding another one on April 5 at New Work City, and want you to present your demonstrations of journalism and technology-related projects, software and APIs. Fill out

Call for Entries: Seattle Hacks/Hackers Demo 2011 on March 29

Have an amazing product that is poised to transform journalism and the way we tell stories? Are you a tech start up hoping to share your million dollar idea with a group of forward thinking technologists and journalists? Developing an innovative plugin? Hacks/Hackers Seattle is organizing its first demo

Awesomest Journalism Party. Ever @ SXSW

Please join Hacks/Hackers, Online News Association, Poynter Institute, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Vision Cloud, Scribd, Tableau Software and more for a rockin’ party during SXSW. It’s the Awesomest Journalism Party. Ever. Really. And you’re invited for music and fun with some of the most innovative journalists and

Google Fusion Tables at Hacks/Hackers NYC. Talk + workshop, March 7-8

Google is sending developer relations engineer Kathryn Hurley from the Bay Area to demo how Google Fusion Tables can be used for journalistic purposes. RSVP now for two separate but related events at Pivotal Labs, near Union Square: * Join Hacks/Hackers NYC on March 7 at 6:30 p.m.