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Re: [LUG] Hackathon in Exeter in March (National Hack the Government)

 

Hack the government, does that include cutting politicians into roughly cut small pieces? I'm in ;)


On 20 February 2014 14:55, trevor@xxxxxxxxxx <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am not sure if you have seen this, but if you haven't I receveied this from
the Hack Space group today:

Trevor


So, there were a few people who wanted to come to the Met Office
hackathon RC and I went to back in June last year but couldn't make it
due to the short notice. GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! National Hack The
Government is taking place in Exeter next month, and they are looking
for volunteers. It's mainly a software event, so coding is more the
order of the day than soldering - but as always, hackathons work better
with style and documentation so~ if you're not much of a coder or
sysadmin, there's plenty of call for photographers,
documentation-writers, policyhackers, bloggers and journalists,
designers, artists (Bring Wacoms! There's never enough Wacoms! (I <3
Wacoms. (Especially my 1992 piece of beautiful junk <3))).

For the coders, HTML, CSS, _javascript_ will be as wanted as
Python/Java/SQL. Analysis and Logic will be needed to make good use of
the data available, so people with sociology, economics/finance, health
and social care experie~..

Basically, there'll be something for anyone who wants to come along to
get stuck into, and the more people who come along the better it'll turn
out.

There are four centres including Exeter (So that's Bournemouth, London,
Glasgow) so it's a huge event. As far as I understand, Devon County
Council are leading and providing a lot of data.

It's a weekend, March 8/9

Here's the information:
http://nationalhackthegovernment.wordpress.com/exeter/

You can sign up here: http://rewiredstate.org/hacks/NHTG14

And they're on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nhtgexeter

Look forward to seeing you all there!

Regards,
Gray.

Gray Marchiori-Simpson
CEO E-Space Project.

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