[okfn-labs] Gauging hack day interest: London and One Health

Thu Nov 22 21:01:33 UTC 2012

Hi Zach

+1 from the open science working group! I'm also a little involved in
planning the NHS hack day, which has a more applied health focus but it
might be worth avoiding the weekend of 26-27 Jan as the main catchment area
for that is Oxford/London.

The working group were planning an open science hack day towards the start
of next year anyway so would be happy to join forces with you.

Jenny

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Zach Beauvais <z.beauvais at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi Labs folk,
>
> I am possibly planning a hack event in the new year in London on the
> subject of One Health. [1][2]
>
> The general gist is to bring together researchers from some of the
> Bloomsbury colleges [3] and developers/info architects as an introduction
> to the world of hackdays and to foster some relationships between devs and
> epidemiologists, researchers, PhD candidates and others.
>
> There are massively important initiatives happening in the world of
> health,[4] and a lot of the data around is messy or under-used, and I think
> a hack day would be a good forum to kick off ideas and show the interest of
> open-source devs. The kinds of themes include:
>
> * zoonotic diseases (diseases passed from animals to people)
> * emerging diseases
> * climate change
> * urbanisation
> * movement of livestalk and wildlife in changing environments
>
> and more...
>
> My wife (doing her PhD in epidemiology at RVC) brought this up when I ran
> hack days for a startup, and said she wished she could get that kind of
> applied focus on some of the problems they're working on. Why not? It
> sounds like a good challenge, and I'm sure there is interest out there.
>
> So, would you be interested in a hack day, in London possibly around
> Bloomsbury, to work on diverse data sources?
>
> [1]: http://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/
> [2]: http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/
> [3]: http://www.bloomsbury.ac.uk/
> [4]: http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/44327/
>
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