OpenNews/hackdays/insideroutsider
Knight-Mozilla-MIT "Insider/Outsider" Hack Day
The Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project is sponsoring at 24-hour hack day as a lead-in to the 2013 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference. While the conference is invite-only, the hack day is open to talented developers who want to spend their weekend working with others to build amazing things.
Following the conference theme of "Insider/Outsider," this hack day will be focused on civic data and opening up challenging data sets.
If you're tweeting about this hackday, please use the #datahack hashtag
Logistics
- Where: MIT Media Lab 5th Floor 75 Amherst Street Cambridge, MA 02139
- When: 3pm sharp Saturday June 22 to 4pm Sunday June 23
- Will there be food? Yes, there will be food. We will be providing dinner and late-night snacks on Saturday night and breakfast and lunch on Sunday.
- What to bring You will need to bring your own laptop and power supply. Also, bring any challenging civic data sets you've been wanting to wrangle.
- We'll supply the WiFi, the plugs, and collaboration and brainstorming materials like post-its, sharpies, etc.
Schedule
Saturday 6/22
- 3pm Opening Circle
- 7pm Dinner
- 10pm Building closes
Sunday 6/23
- 9:00am Building opens
- 9:30am Breakfast
- 12:30pm Lunch
- 2:45pm Show and Tell
- 3:45pm Closing Circle
Project Teams and Ideas
We're going to use HackDash to help gather teams and ideas this year.
Project Ideas
To pre-seed ideas for the hack day, we invited some of the attendees to outline some basic concepts of things to build/problems to solve. If you like these, please add a +1 next to the item. If you have your own ideas, please feel free to add them below. If you have a team already coalescing around an idea, feel free to kick it over to HackDash.
Tools & APIs
Have tools or APIs that would be helpful for this hack weekend? List them here.
Communications
If you're tweeting about this hackday, please use the #datahack hashtag
To stay connected to the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project, follow us @opennews and check the web to find out additional ways to get involved.
Your Blogs
If you're blogging about the event, please link to it here.
Places to Eat and Drink
The hotel bar and restaurant in the Marriott is lackluster; I'd avoid it if you can.
- Za Homemade pickles, excellent wine list. Rest of menu is pizza and salad and THAT'S IT. Across the street from the Marriott.
- Mary Chung's Classic MIT hangout. Chinese food. Eat the Suan La Chow Show. In Central Square. Lip-dragging distance from Le Meridien; an eight minute walk from the Marriott.
Do You Want To Eat A Vegetable?
Veggie Galaxy Vegan/vegetarian diner and bakery. Retro/air-quotes diner food. Only vegan. Clover Vegan restaurant. Informal, inexpensive.
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