[ddj] Hacks/Hackers BA Media Party at Buenos Aires

Tue Jul 3 15:10:53 UTC 2012

Hi,

I am the Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires co-founder, and we've announced
yesterday the most ambicious #hhba meetup ever at the end of august! I hope
you can join us.

Mariano Blejman
@blejman

Hacks/Hackers Media Party (Mediathon+Hackathon en Buenos
Aires)<http://hhba.info/?p=3677>

*Hacks/Hackers Media Party **(Mediathon + Hackathon en Buenos Aires)*

Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires is pleased to invite journalists, organizations,
software programmers, designers, and editors to a three-day series of
talks/keynotes and workshops, and a super hackathon to work towards
building the future of the media. Some of the keynote speakers are the
members of The Guardian Interactive team (Alastair Dant, Jonathan Richards,
Mariana Santos, Alex Graul, Robin Beitra, Nicola Hughs), Tyson Evan, deputy
editor for interactive news at The New York Times, Justin Arenstein Knight
Fellow digital media strategist and media consultant at Google and ICFJ,
and Dan Sinker, director of the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project. Further
international participants will be announced soon.

The Conference will be coordinated by LibreBus, an Derechos Digitales NGO,
Creative Commons and Mozilla project, which comes to Buenos Aires through
four latinamerican countries.

The Hackathon conclusions will be especially considered by the Knight
Foudnation Prototype program, which grants of up to 50 thousand dollars.
Follow the updates on http://hhba.info and http://meetupba.hackshackers.com

*Venue: *Centro Cultural Konex, Sarmiento 3151, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos
Aires, Argentina.

Date: 30-31 August and 1 September

All talks and workshops are of free and public access, expect the workshop
led by the team of The Guardian, which has a registration fee. To register
for this Conference, visit the website of Hack/Hackers Buenos Aires at
http://meetupba.hackshackers.com and confirm for each day separately. To
participate in the workshop led by the staff of The Guardian, register
through Meetup to be included in a waiting list and you will be contacted
shortly by Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires to make the payment.

*Why this Conference?*

We have built the largest community of Hacks/Hackers in South America and
the fifth largest in the world after the ones in New York, San Francisco,
London, and Boston. Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires has 750 members and it keeps
growing. Since April 2011, we have organized 13 conferences, hackathons and
meetups, and we have supported several programs and projects related to
communication and technology. It is about time to come meet us.

Hacks/Hackers is an meetup group for journalists and software programmers
to meet worldwide and collaborate in building the future of the media. It
is part of a growing organization which first met in San Francisco in 2009
and has now over ten thousand members and almost 40 chapters. It is a
non-profit project, with no other affiliations. Hacks/Hackers was created
by Burt Herman (Storify.com), Rich Gordon, and Aron Pilhofer of the New
York Times, and it is the best networking place worldwide for journalist
and technologists to find relations, products, services, and ideas.

*Here is a description of the workshop led by the Guardian interactive team*

The Guardian Interactive team will present a 6hr workshop where the aim is
to guide groups through the creation of interactive content within a
multi-disciplinary team: from early concept work through early
designs/mock-ups, interaction design, data processing (if needed), and,
depending how far teams get, prototyping. The aim of the workshop will be
to unmask some of the processes inside a large, media organisation, in
particular the adherence to tight deadlines, decision-making, and
prioritisation, and to provide support on specific skills, including
editing, interaction/motion design, and development.

The end result might be a set of wireframes or, with some luck, a piece
with a few moving parts.

You will need to bring your laptop, and lots of energy.

The team is formed of: Alastair Dant – lead interactive developer, Jonathan
Richards – interactive journalist, Mariana Santos- interactive and motion
designer, Alex Graul – interactive developer, Robin Beitra – interactive
and game  developer, Nicola Hughes – from Knight Mozilla program, data
researcher.

This team is able to deliver from A to Z any interactive project using
data, following the new ways of delivering news, with a sharp eye for
innovation.

*Conference Schedule*

Thursday, August 30th (Talks and Mediathon)

9am – Alastair Dant, The Guardian Team (MasterClass – public access, no fee)

12pm – 6pm – Workshops on dataJ, timelines, mapping, tableau (public
access, no fee)

Claudio Ruiz “Hack the law: Creative Commons, resources and free cultur for
an open journalism”

Friday, August 31st (Talks and Mediathon)

9am – Tyson Evans, The New York Times (MasterClass –public access, no fee)

11am – 6pm – The Guardian Workshop (registration fee required) +
simultaneous workshops (public access, no fee)

Saturday, September 1st (Hackathon)

9am – 6pm Open source tools for an open journalism

Development of free software tools, map and timeline combinations, tools
for journalists, transparency tools. The Hackathon prototypes will be
especially considered by the Knight Foundation Prototype program, which
grants donations of up to 50 thousand dollars.

The members of the *Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires* team are Mariano Blejman,
Martín Sarsale, Guillermo Movia, Mariana Berruezo, César Miquel, Ezequiel
Clerici, Sergio Sorín, and Andrés Snitcofsky.

Recommended hotel: Ibis Obelisco

Special discounts for participants of Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires

*Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires*

Twitter @HacksHackersBA
mail ba at hackshackers.com
web http://meetupba.hackshackers.com
blog http://www.hackshackers.com
blog local http://hhba.info
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