[gtug-bsas] Próxima edición de Hacks/hackers (inglés)

Dear members of Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires,

 

At the next meetup of Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires, Andrew Leimdorfer, Senior Product Manager of BBC News, will be coming from London. Leimdorfer is someone we'd like to talk to if we were at the BBC: he manages the "News Specials" team, and at the next  #HHBA he'll tell us how their multimedia specials work, how they create their interactive graphics, and how they do their data-viz and action measurements. Leimdorfer will also give a summary of his experience at the Knight-Mozilla project and what they hope to achieve each year with the scholarship fellow they host.

 

Tuesday 13th of december 2011, 6.30 pm at AreaTres Humboldt 2036, Buenos Aires.

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Also participating in the meetup will be members of the GarageLab team, which developed QuePasaRiachuelo.org.ar, a platform based on public data for visualizing and monitoring the problematic of Cuenca Matanza Riachuelo, created and designed by the organizations that make up the Espacio Matanza Riachuelo in alliance with GarageLab. Meanwhile, Santiago Siri de Popego will show us Zenzey.com, a real-time social media analysis platform with semantic analysis and impressive visualizations. Also, Felipe Lerena will show us the results of "The Ages of the Web," the recent hackathon at Fábrica de Fallas, and we'll do a quick update of what happened at the Mozilla Festival in London, where we worked for three days with the interactive editors of the newspapers that best explore the concept of #datajournalism. Each talk will last ten minutes at most.

 

Attention: Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires is an open, collaborative space always open to receiving proposals. If you have ideas or a project that you think could be stimulating for the group's more than 470 members, come to the next meeting or write to us at ba@hackshackers.com  Journalists and programmers alike, those who want to participate in the organization of the meetings and hackathons are welcome.

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Why do we do this?

Hacks/Hackers is a space for exchange, consisting of journalists and software programmers who unite all over the world to collaborate on the construction of the future of communication media. It is part of the growing organization that had its first meeting in San Francisco in November 2009 and now has thousands of members all over the world. It is not for profit and has no affiliation. Hacks/Hackers is the best space for networking at the global level for finding relationships, products, services, and ideas among journalists and techies. It was created by Burt Herman (Storify.com) and Aron Pilhofer (The New York Times).

 

So far Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires has had nine gatherings: three meetups in Buenos Aires (between 100 a 150 attendees), two conferences, and four hackathons. One hackathon was in the city of Rosario, where we worked on an interactive application in HTML5 for doing audiovisual coverage within the framework of the 4th Forum of Digital Journalism of Rosario. Another was the superhackathon at Technopolis, where we worked on the Mapa76.info project, an automatic extraction software for documents, which is currently under development. We participated in the International Conference on Free Software at the National Library and gave a virtual conference at the Ibero-American New Journalism Foundation, and recently we developed the "Hack Real-Time Election" with Andy Tow during the Argentine elections, a project with had a powerful impact nationally. Last weekend we worked on "The Ages of the Web" at Fábrica de Fallas.

 

The Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires team includes Mariano Blejman, Martín Sarsale, Guillermo Movia, Mariana Berruezo, César Miquel, Ezequiel Clerici and Sergio Sorín. Translated to english by Michael Romano.

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