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On 20/02/14 14:55, 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. > Sorry I am at the Torbay PI jam on the 8th March. Paul -- -- http://www.zleap.net http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 Torbay Raspberry Pi Jam 8th March 2014 - http://dcglug.drogon.net/torbay-pi-jam/ I am committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable groups and expect any school or establishment I am involved with to share this commitment. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq