Civic Hackers Across the Country Will Band Together in June for National Day of Civic Hacking
blog.programmableweb.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: Hackers across the country are getting ready to participate in the first annual National Day of Civic Hacking which will take place in over 80 cities on June 1st and 2nd, 2013. The two day event will bring together citizens, developers, government agencies and entrepreneurs to create applications using publicly available APIs and datasets, to help solve a civic or social problem impacting the local community. At the time of this writing, the National Day of Civic Hacking features over 85 locally organized events, 19 government partners, 37 data sets/resources and 5,000 participants are expected.... read the full post.
Tags: Federal Government, Hackathon
Citizen Science Hack Day
science.okfn.org
on 05/03/2013
Excerpt: Come and join other citizen scientists, humanities folks, technologists, designers, students, scientists, and all who are curious for a two days of Crowdcrafting Citizen Science at Medialab-Prado, Madrid, Spain. We’ll be hacking together apps and projects with various open tools such as Epicollect, PyBossa and/or BOINC. The goal of the hackfest is to show the benefits that Citizen Science gives to citizens as well as professional scientists thanks to the new technologies.... read the full post.
Tags: Hackathon, Science
Mashape April Hackathon!
aprilapihack.eventbrite.com
on 04/04/2013
Excerpt: Mashape is a Cloud API Hub where you can distribute, consume, and monetize private and public APIs. We are an API Marketplace with over 2000+ APIs in catalog including sentiment analysis APIs, face recognition, and more. You can sign-up to Mashape here -http://www. mashape. com/signup. When and Where? We are hosting a 24-hour API Hackathon this coming April 6-7 in our Mashape Hacker House at 433 Bryant St. , San Francisco. You can check out the venue herehttp://www. facebook. com/mashape. What's the Hackathon about? We'd like to see you build web or mobile applications from any "Machine Learning" APIs out there. Examples of these APIs include text processing, sentiment analysis, face recognition.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Hackathon, SF
NYC announces fourth BigApps 2013 competition, featuring $150K in prizes and 350 new data sets
thenextweb.com
on 03/19/2013
Excerpt: New York mayor Bloomberg has announced the city’s fourth annual BigApps 2013, a contest which calls upon developers to build Web and mobile apps using open city data. The competition will launch tonight at the massive 31,164-member New York Tech Meetup. The city has shared that the competition will feature $150,000 in prizes, up from $50,000 last year, as well as 350 new data sets from 60 City agencies and commissions. Interestingly, the city is now allowing participants to “incorporate approved Federal, State and private sector datasets and APIs” into their apps, in addition to city data.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Civic, Hackathon
UK Hackathon Produces Game To Help Fight Cancer
www.neontommy.com
on 03/11/2013
Excerpt: Last weekend's hackathon was aimed at producing a smartphone game that could allow players to analyze real data on the difference between healthy and cancerous cells. (Image via wikimedia commons)
Programmers, graphic designers, and game makers met last weekend for a hackathon organized by a UK-based charity to create a smartphone game designed to let players aid cancer research. The weekend-long event was just the latest of the increasingly common hack fests, and further exemplified how scientists and nonprofit organizations are more often taking advantage of video games to aid research and raise consciousness.... read the full post.
Tags: Hackathon
MUM Computer Science Students Win National Collegiate Hackathon Competition and Trip to Silicon Valley - Times Union
www.timesunion.com
on 03/10/2013
Excerpt: The company that placed this press release with PRWeb is responsible for its content. It is not edited by the Albany Times Union. Maharishi University Computer Science students were among the 10 finalists in a national collegiate hackathon competition to win a trip to Silicon Valley. During their visit there last week, they met with high-tech leaders from 15 companies. Fairfield, Iowa (PRWEB) March 09, 2013
Hackathons are growing in popularity. Companies like Facebook, Google, and now the White House have employed this strategy to come up with innovative software solutions to problems. Last month, a company called HackerRank announced a national collegiate computer-programming competition.... read the full post.
Tags: Hackathon
POV Seeks Hackathon-ers
documentaries.about.com
on 03/09/2013
Excerpt: POV is seeking nonfiction filmmakers to participate in its upcoming POV Hackathon 3, scheduled for April 13-15, 2013. Hackathon pairs filmmakers with Web techies, with the goal of exploring future nonfiction media platforms, including storytelling through games and audience interactions through mobile applications and social media. It's a great opportunity to develop projects through creative collaboration. Applications must be submitted by March 12.... read the full post.
Tags: Alerts, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Google, Googlereader, Hackathon, Ifttt
Columbia Hackathon
bwog.com
on 03/09/2013
Excerpt: Participants in Columbia’s Hackathon were hacking away from 9 pm Friday until 12 pm Saturday in John Jay Lounge. Bwog’s very own Sam “Ruby Prince” Aarons won the overall prize with his housing website that this isn’t a plug for at all. Lots of other cool and super helpful Columbia-centered apps were made, like one for dining hall hours and one for sports results. Hackers pitched ideas, formed teams and made their websites all in the time allotted.... read the full post.
Tags: Alerts, Google, Googlereader, Hackathon, Ifttt
What We're Reading: AA's Hackathon, Antarctica's Ice Caves : Condé Nast Traveler
www.cntraveler.com
on 03/08/2013
Excerpt: Bon Appétit: Charleston, South Carolina (aka the Top Rated City in the U. S. ) has been on my must-see list for a while now. So imagine my excitement scrolling through these snapshots from the Charleston Wine + Food Festival last week. Pimento cheese and Waffle House, anyone? —Tara Abell
New York Times: The risks of a ski trip to Kashmir? Security, avalanches, and the altitude. The rewards? Perfect powder, an absence of crowds, and staggering Himalayan beauty. —Saif Alnuweiri
Mashable: I come from a lineage of cycling fanatics (my dad even wrote about the Amgen Tour of California for CNTraveler.... read the full post.
Tags: Hackathon
LadyHacks: 7 projects from Philly’s first women-only hackathon
technical.ly
on 03/08/2013
Excerpt: LadyHacks project teams worked through the weekend. (Photo Credit: Tara Gordon / Skout Media)
LadyHacks: a Hackathon for Women brought together 65 women to work collaboratively this weekend on projects in an effort to add an entry point into a growing technology community broadly and civic hacking scene specifically. Organizers of Philadelphia’s first large scale, women-only hackathon, Tristin Hightower and Sondra Willhite, welcomed the crowd at WHYY during Friday evening’s project brainstorming session citing results of a poll taken at registration that revealed nearly 80 percent of the attendees had never before attended a hackathon. Yes, that number includes the six month old and a four year old who were in attendance.... read the full post.
Tags: Alerts, Google, Googlereader, Hackathon, Ifttt
Excerpt: Come and join other citizen scientists, humanities folks, technologists, designers, students, scientists, and all who are curious for a two days of Crowdcrafting Citizen Science at Medialab-Prado, Madrid, Spain. We’ll be hacking together apps and projects with various open tools such as Epicollect, PyBossa and/or BOINC. The goal of the hackfest is to show the benefits that Citizen Science gives to citizens as well as professional scientists thanks to the new technologies.... read the full post.
Tags: Hackathon, Science
Mashape April Hackathon!
aprilapihack.eventbrite.com
on 04/04/2013
Excerpt: Mashape is a Cloud API Hub where you can distribute, consume, and monetize private and public APIs. We are an API Marketplace with over 2000+ APIs in catalog including sentiment analysis APIs, face recognition, and more. You can sign-up to Mashape here -http://www. mashape. com/signup. When and Where? We are hosting a 24-hour API Hackathon this coming April 6-7 in our Mashape Hacker House at 433 Bryant St. , San Francisco. You can check out the venue herehttp://www. facebook. com/mashape. What's the Hackathon about? We'd like to see you build web or mobile applications from any "Machine Learning" APIs out there. Examples of these APIs include text processing, sentiment analysis, face recognition.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Hackathon, SF
NYC announces fourth BigApps 2013 competition, featuring $150K in prizes and 350 new data sets
thenextweb.com
on 03/19/2013
Excerpt: New York mayor Bloomberg has announced the city’s fourth annual BigApps 2013, a contest which calls upon developers to build Web and mobile apps using open city data. The competition will launch tonight at the massive 31,164-member New York Tech Meetup. The city has shared that the competition will feature $150,000 in prizes, up from $50,000 last year, as well as 350 new data sets from 60 City agencies and commissions. Interestingly, the city is now allowing participants to “incorporate approved Federal, State and private sector datasets and APIs” into their apps, in addition to city data.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Civic, Hackathon
UK Hackathon Produces Game To Help Fight Cancer
www.neontommy.com
on 03/11/2013
Excerpt: Last weekend's hackathon was aimed at producing a smartphone game that could allow players to analyze real data on the difference between healthy and cancerous cells. (Image via wikimedia commons)
Programmers, graphic designers, and game makers met last weekend for a hackathon organized by a UK-based charity to create a smartphone game designed to let players aid cancer research. The weekend-long event was just the latest of the increasingly common hack fests, and further exemplified how scientists and nonprofit organizations are more often taking advantage of video games to aid research and raise consciousness.... read the full post.
Tags: Hackathon
MUM Computer Science Students Win National Collegiate Hackathon Competition and Trip to Silicon Valley - Times Union
www.timesunion.com
on 03/10/2013
Excerpt: The company that placed this press release with PRWeb is responsible for its content. It is not edited by the Albany Times Union. Maharishi University Computer Science students were among the 10 finalists in a national collegiate hackathon competition to win a trip to Silicon Valley. During their visit there last week, they met with high-tech leaders from 15 companies. Fairfield, Iowa (PRWEB) March 09, 2013
Hackathons are growing in popularity. Companies like Facebook, Google, and now the White House have employed this strategy to come up with innovative software solutions to problems. Last month, a company called HackerRank announced a national collegiate computer-programming competition.... read the full post.
Tags: Hackathon
POV Seeks Hackathon-ers
documentaries.about.com
on 03/09/2013
Excerpt: POV is seeking nonfiction filmmakers to participate in its upcoming POV Hackathon 3, scheduled for April 13-15, 2013. Hackathon pairs filmmakers with Web techies, with the goal of exploring future nonfiction media platforms, including storytelling through games and audience interactions through mobile applications and social media. It's a great opportunity to develop projects through creative collaboration. Applications must be submitted by March 12.... read the full post.
Tags: Alerts, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Google, Googlereader, Hackathon, Ifttt
Columbia Hackathon
bwog.com
on 03/09/2013
Excerpt: Participants in Columbia’s Hackathon were hacking away from 9 pm Friday until 12 pm Saturday in John Jay Lounge. Bwog’s very own Sam “Ruby Prince” Aarons won the overall prize with his housing website that this isn’t a plug for at all. Lots of other cool and super helpful Columbia-centered apps were made, like one for dining hall hours and one for sports results. Hackers pitched ideas, formed teams and made their websites all in the time allotted.... read the full post.
Tags: Alerts, Google, Googlereader, Hackathon, Ifttt
What We're Reading: AA's Hackathon, Antarctica's Ice Caves : Condé Nast Traveler
www.cntraveler.com
on 03/08/2013
Excerpt: Bon Appétit: Charleston, South Carolina (aka the Top Rated City in the U. S. ) has been on my must-see list for a while now. So imagine my excitement scrolling through these snapshots from the Charleston Wine + Food Festival last week. Pimento cheese and Waffle House, anyone? —Tara Abell
New York Times: The risks of a ski trip to Kashmir? Security, avalanches, and the altitude. The rewards? Perfect powder, an absence of crowds, and staggering Himalayan beauty. —Saif Alnuweiri
Mashable: I come from a lineage of cycling fanatics (my dad even wrote about the Amgen Tour of California for CNTraveler.... read the full post.
Tags: Hackathon
LadyHacks: 7 projects from Philly’s first women-only hackathon
technical.ly
on 03/08/2013
Excerpt: LadyHacks project teams worked through the weekend. (Photo Credit: Tara Gordon / Skout Media)
LadyHacks: a Hackathon for Women brought together 65 women to work collaboratively this weekend on projects in an effort to add an entry point into a growing technology community broadly and civic hacking scene specifically. Organizers of Philadelphia’s first large scale, women-only hackathon, Tristin Hightower and Sondra Willhite, welcomed the crowd at WHYY during Friday evening’s project brainstorming session citing results of a poll taken at registration that revealed nearly 80 percent of the attendees had never before attended a hackathon. Yes, that number includes the six month old and a four year old who were in attendance.... read the full post.
Tags: Alerts, Google, Googlereader, Hackathon, Ifttt
Excerpt: New York mayor Bloomberg has announced the city’s fourth annual BigApps 2013, a contest which calls upon developers to build Web and mobile apps using open city data. The competition will launch tonight at the massive 31,164-member New York Tech Meetup. The city has shared that the competition will feature $150,000 in prizes, up from $50,000 last year, as well as 350 new data sets from 60 City agencies and commissions. Interestingly, the city is now allowing participants to “incorporate approved Federal, State and private sector datasets and APIs” into their apps, in addition to city data.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Civic, Hackathon
UK Hackathon Produces Game To Help Fight Cancer
www.neontommy.com
on 03/11/2013
Excerpt: Last weekend's hackathon was aimed at producing a smartphone game that could allow players to analyze real data on the difference between healthy and cancerous cells. (Image via wikimedia commons)
Programmers, graphic designers, and game makers met last weekend for a hackathon organized by a UK-based charity to create a smartphone game designed to let players aid cancer research. The weekend-long event was just the latest of the increasingly common hack fests, and further exemplified how scientists and nonprofit organizations are more often taking advantage of video games to aid research and raise consciousness.... read the full post.
Tags: Hackathon
MUM Computer Science Students Win National Collegiate Hackathon Competition and Trip to Silicon Valley - Times Union
www.timesunion.com
on 03/10/2013
Excerpt: The company that placed this press release with PRWeb is responsible for its content. It is not edited by the Albany Times Union. Maharishi University Computer Science students were among the 10 finalists in a national collegiate hackathon competition to win a trip to Silicon Valley. During their visit there last week, they met with high-tech leaders from 15 companies. Fairfield, Iowa (PRWEB) March 09, 2013
Hackathons are growing in popularity. Companies like Facebook, Google, and now the White House have employed this strategy to come up with innovative software solutions to problems. Last month, a company called HackerRank announced a national collegiate computer-programming competition.... read the full post.
Tags: Hackathon
POV Seeks Hackathon-ers
documentaries.about.com
on 03/09/2013
Excerpt: POV is seeking nonfiction filmmakers to participate in its upcoming POV Hackathon 3, scheduled for April 13-15, 2013. Hackathon pairs filmmakers with Web techies, with the goal of exploring future nonfiction media platforms, including storytelling through games and audience interactions through mobile applications and social media. It's a great opportunity to develop projects through creative collaboration. Applications must be submitted by March 12.... read the full post.
Tags: Alerts, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Google, Googlereader, Hackathon, Ifttt
Columbia Hackathon
bwog.com
on 03/09/2013
Excerpt: Participants in Columbia’s Hackathon were hacking away from 9 pm Friday until 12 pm Saturday in John Jay Lounge. Bwog’s very own Sam “Ruby Prince” Aarons won the overall prize with his housing website that this isn’t a plug for at all. Lots of other cool and super helpful Columbia-centered apps were made, like one for dining hall hours and one for sports results. Hackers pitched ideas, formed teams and made their websites all in the time allotted.... read the full post.
Tags: Alerts, Google, Googlereader, Hackathon, Ifttt
What We're Reading: AA's Hackathon, Antarctica's Ice Caves : Condé Nast Traveler
www.cntraveler.com
on 03/08/2013
Excerpt: Bon Appétit: Charleston, South Carolina (aka the Top Rated City in the U. S. ) has been on my must-see list for a while now. So imagine my excitement scrolling through these snapshots from the Charleston Wine + Food Festival last week. Pimento cheese and Waffle House, anyone? —Tara Abell
New York Times: The risks of a ski trip to Kashmir? Security, avalanches, and the altitude. The rewards? Perfect powder, an absence of crowds, and staggering Himalayan beauty. —Saif Alnuweiri
Mashable: I come from a lineage of cycling fanatics (my dad even wrote about the Amgen Tour of California for CNTraveler.... read the full post.
Tags: Hackathon
LadyHacks: 7 projects from Philly’s first women-only hackathon
technical.ly
on 03/08/2013
Excerpt: LadyHacks project teams worked through the weekend. (Photo Credit: Tara Gordon / Skout Media)
LadyHacks: a Hackathon for Women brought together 65 women to work collaboratively this weekend on projects in an effort to add an entry point into a growing technology community broadly and civic hacking scene specifically. Organizers of Philadelphia’s first large scale, women-only hackathon, Tristin Hightower and Sondra Willhite, welcomed the crowd at WHYY during Friday evening’s project brainstorming session citing results of a poll taken at registration that revealed nearly 80 percent of the attendees had never before attended a hackathon. Yes, that number includes the six month old and a four year old who were in attendance.... read the full post.
Tags: Alerts, Google, Googlereader, Hackathon, Ifttt
Excerpt: The company that placed this press release with PRWeb is responsible for its content. It is not edited by the Albany Times Union. Maharishi University Computer Science students were among the 10 finalists in a national collegiate hackathon competition to win a trip to Silicon Valley. During their visit there last week, they met with high-tech leaders from 15 companies. Fairfield, Iowa (PRWEB) March 09, 2013 Hackathons are growing in popularity. Companies like Facebook, Google, and now the White House have employed this strategy to come up with innovative software solutions to problems. Last month, a company called HackerRank announced a national collegiate computer-programming competition.... read the full post.
Tags: Hackathon
POV Seeks Hackathon-ers
documentaries.about.com
on 03/09/2013
Excerpt: POV is seeking nonfiction filmmakers to participate in its upcoming POV Hackathon 3, scheduled for April 13-15, 2013. Hackathon pairs filmmakers with Web techies, with the goal of exploring future nonfiction media platforms, including storytelling through games and audience interactions through mobile applications and social media. It's a great opportunity to develop projects through creative collaboration. Applications must be submitted by March 12.... read the full post.
Tags: Alerts, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Google, Googlereader, Hackathon, Ifttt
Columbia Hackathon
bwog.com
on 03/09/2013
Excerpt: Participants in Columbia’s Hackathon were hacking away from 9 pm Friday until 12 pm Saturday in John Jay Lounge. Bwog’s very own Sam “Ruby Prince” Aarons won the overall prize with his housing website that this isn’t a plug for at all. Lots of other cool and super helpful Columbia-centered apps were made, like one for dining hall hours and one for sports results. Hackers pitched ideas, formed teams and made their websites all in the time allotted.... read the full post.
Tags: Alerts, Google, Googlereader, Hackathon, Ifttt
What We're Reading: AA's Hackathon, Antarctica's Ice Caves : Condé Nast Traveler
www.cntraveler.com
on 03/08/2013
Excerpt: Bon Appétit: Charleston, South Carolina (aka the Top Rated City in the U. S. ) has been on my must-see list for a while now. So imagine my excitement scrolling through these snapshots from the Charleston Wine + Food Festival last week. Pimento cheese and Waffle House, anyone? —Tara Abell
New York Times: The risks of a ski trip to Kashmir? Security, avalanches, and the altitude. The rewards? Perfect powder, an absence of crowds, and staggering Himalayan beauty. —Saif Alnuweiri
Mashable: I come from a lineage of cycling fanatics (my dad even wrote about the Amgen Tour of California for CNTraveler.... read the full post.
Tags: Hackathon
LadyHacks: 7 projects from Philly’s first women-only hackathon
technical.ly
on 03/08/2013
Excerpt: LadyHacks project teams worked through the weekend. (Photo Credit: Tara Gordon / Skout Media)
LadyHacks: a Hackathon for Women brought together 65 women to work collaboratively this weekend on projects in an effort to add an entry point into a growing technology community broadly and civic hacking scene specifically. Organizers of Philadelphia’s first large scale, women-only hackathon, Tristin Hightower and Sondra Willhite, welcomed the crowd at WHYY during Friday evening’s project brainstorming session citing results of a poll taken at registration that revealed nearly 80 percent of the attendees had never before attended a hackathon. Yes, that number includes the six month old and a four year old who were in attendance.... read the full post.
Tags: Alerts, Google, Googlereader, Hackathon, Ifttt
Excerpt: Participants in Columbia’s Hackathon were hacking away from 9 pm Friday until 12 pm Saturday in John Jay Lounge. Bwog’s very own Sam “Ruby Prince” Aarons won the overall prize with his housing website that this isn’t a plug for at all. Lots of other cool and super helpful Columbia-centered apps were made, like one for dining hall hours and one for sports results. Hackers pitched ideas, formed teams and made their websites all in the time allotted.... read the full post.
Tags: Alerts, Google, Googlereader, Hackathon, Ifttt
What We're Reading: AA's Hackathon, Antarctica's Ice Caves : Condé Nast Traveler
www.cntraveler.com
on 03/08/2013
Excerpt: Bon Appétit: Charleston, South Carolina (aka the Top Rated City in the U. S. ) has been on my must-see list for a while now. So imagine my excitement scrolling through these snapshots from the Charleston Wine + Food Festival last week. Pimento cheese and Waffle House, anyone? —Tara Abell
New York Times: The risks of a ski trip to Kashmir? Security, avalanches, and the altitude. The rewards? Perfect powder, an absence of crowds, and staggering Himalayan beauty. —Saif Alnuweiri
Mashable: I come from a lineage of cycling fanatics (my dad even wrote about the Amgen Tour of California for CNTraveler.... read the full post.
Tags: Hackathon
LadyHacks: 7 projects from Philly’s first women-only hackathon
technical.ly
on 03/08/2013
Excerpt: LadyHacks project teams worked through the weekend. (Photo Credit: Tara Gordon / Skout Media)
LadyHacks: a Hackathon for Women brought together 65 women to work collaboratively this weekend on projects in an effort to add an entry point into a growing technology community broadly and civic hacking scene specifically. Organizers of Philadelphia’s first large scale, women-only hackathon, Tristin Hightower and Sondra Willhite, welcomed the crowd at WHYY during Friday evening’s project brainstorming session citing results of a poll taken at registration that revealed nearly 80 percent of the attendees had never before attended a hackathon. Yes, that number includes the six month old and a four year old who were in attendance.... read the full post.
Tags: Alerts, Google, Googlereader, Hackathon, Ifttt
Excerpt: LadyHacks project teams worked through the weekend. (Photo Credit: Tara Gordon / Skout Media) LadyHacks: a Hackathon for Women brought together 65 women to work collaboratively this weekend on projects in an effort to add an entry point into a growing technology community broadly and civic hacking scene specifically. Organizers of Philadelphia’s first large scale, women-only hackathon, Tristin Hightower and Sondra Willhite, welcomed the crowd at WHYY during Friday evening’s project brainstorming session citing results of a poll taken at registration that revealed nearly 80 percent of the attendees had never before attended a hackathon. Yes, that number includes the six month old and a four year old who were in attendance.... read the full post.
Tags: Alerts, Google, Googlereader, Hackathon, Ifttt
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