ScraperWiki event for journalists and programmers: Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Manchester, a chance for web developers and designers to pair up with journalists and bloggers to produce a number of projects and stories based on public data.
When? Friday October 15th 2010 from 9.30 am to 7.30 pm Where? At Vision+Media, Broadway 100, Salford Quays, M50 2UW (nearest tram: Broadway) View on Google Map. Who is it for? We hope to attract ‘hacks’ and ‘hackers’ from all different types of backgrounds: people from big media organisations, as well as individual online publishers and freelancers. How much? Absolutely free, thanks to our sponsors, Inside the M60, Guardian Open Platform, the Digital Editors Network, Vision+Media (supported by the European Regional Development Fund and the Northwest Regional Development Agency), Journal Local and MEN Media, for making the event possible. Refreshments, lunch and evening reception will be all be provided. What happens on the day? The aim is to show journalists how to use programming and design techniques to create online news stories and features; and vice versa, to show programmers how to find, develop, and polish stories and features. All sorts of data was scraped and played with at our past events: in Liverpool, projects included mashes of police, libraries and courts data. Birmingham saw lots of health- related projects, as well as scraping of political party donor and leisure centre information. This four minute video from our Liverpool event gives you a flavour of the kind of projects that can be developed. http://blog.scraperwiki.com/2010/08/11/video-liverpool-hacks-and-hackers-hack-day/ We are also running events in Leeds on October 28th, Belfast November 13th and Dublin November 16th. Please see a little article that gives you an overview of what we are about and which was published yesterday http://socialmedia.net/2010/10/06/scraperwiki-hacks-and-hackers-day-comes-to-dublin . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en.
