Welcome a thousand hacks and hackers on the phone next week
Hello, new hacks and hackers! As of last week, he have 1,000 subscribers on this newsletter. So if you haven’t already heard, we hold global open calls for the entire Hacks/Hackers community on the first Wednesday of every month. Please join us next Wednesday, October 5!
The week ahead:
- Hacks/Hackers is holdings its monthly global open call. Everyone welcome!
- Montreal is sharing the best cloud-based tools for journalists
- Miami is holding its regular OpenHack Miami
- IRE in Missouri is holding its weekly meeting
Group spotlight:
Hong Kong held a show-and-tell with media leaders earlier this week, and sadly it was the city’s last meetup for a while. Organizer Cedric Sam is moving on to New York, and is still looking for someone to pass the torch.
“Hong Kong has many news hacker jobs in both local and foreign media, and is often on par with New York and London as regional hub for international media,” Sam said. “So I don’t see why the pool wouldn’t be large enough to accommodate a vibrant Hacks/Hackers community!”
If you’re interested in helping to organize Hacks/Hackers Hong Kong, or know someone who is, get in touch!
Worth a read:
- The Sunlight Foundation, an American open gov nonprofit, abruptly announced an end to many of its tools, leading to questions about the longevity of open source tools (INN)
- NPR found huge success with its attempt to fact-check a presidential debate in real time, using Google Apps scripts, S3 servers and an embedded widget (Poynter)
- Snapchat released a Google Glass-like product called Spectacles (WSJ)
Job openings:
- Asia:
- Dow Jones has an opening for an Android developer in Hong Kong
- North America:
- IRE/NICAR is hiring a data director to oversee data and training projects
- The University of Colorado is looking for people to teach data journalism
- ESPN is hiring a software engineer in LA
- The Texas Tribune is seeking a data viz developer
- NYT is hiring an interactive news developer
- Voice of America is looking for a tech reporter in San Francisco
- Africa:
- IREX is looking for a Portuguese speaker to develop radio innovation in Mozambique
Other upcoming events:
- September:
- Sept 29-Oct 1 – Miami, USA – Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium
- Sept 29-Oct 1 – Chicago, USA – Local indie online news publishers are gathering for the LION summit
- Sept 30-Oct 1 – Palo Alto, USA – Computation + Journalism Symposium
- October:
- Oct 6-8 – Washington, DC, USA – Double Exposure, an investigative film festival and symposium
- (Hacks/Hackers community members can register with a 10% off discount code: HACK10)
- Oct 7-9 – New York, USA – Future of Storytelling Festival
- Oct 13-14 – Berlin, Germany – Ada Lovelace Festival for women developers
- Oct 14-15 – Washington, DC, USA – TransparencyCamp, the Sunlight Foundation’s unconference for open government
- Oct 17-17 – Vitoria, Brazil – Brazilian Conference of Citizen Media
- Oct 21-23 – Cape Town, South Africa – Media Party Africa, co-run by Hacks/Hackers Africa and Code for Africa
- Oct 25-27 – Casablanca, Morocco – d|bootcamp, a three-day civic hacking workshop
- November:
- Nov 7-9 – Johannesburg, South Africa – African Investigative Journalism Conference
- Nov 22-23 – Covilha, Portugal – the Journalism and Mobile Devices Congress
