[open-government] International Hackhaton - RHoK?

Mon Nov 8 17:49:10 UTC 2010

hi Pedro - I've been in touch with the RhoK people. They are awesome.

At the moment they aren't able to link the events but are supportive. 
They also are only in a few cities and are focused more on apps for 
crisis management. That said, I know there is a lot of interest on their 
part in open data and being supportive of that, and of course, we love 
RHoK...

I've linked to their site on the opendataday.org website and if we are 
able to integrate the events more closely we will, but in the meantime, 
we have a lot of people in cities where RHoK doesn't have events where 
people would like to get together, and I'm keen on supporting anyone who 
wants to have an event.

Also, the World Bank (which is sponsoring the RHoK event) has been in 
touch a few times, they also want to help support the International Open 
Data Hackathon so I know there is a real desire to ensure that both 
events support each other.

Hopefully there will be more news on this front soon.

cheers,
dave
www.eaves.ca
@daeaves

On 10-11-08 9:39 AM, Ton Zijlstra wrote:
> yes that was pointed out earlier. David Eaves got in touch with the
> organizing people, and we connect where possible I think.
>
> best
> Ton
>
> On Monday, November 8, 2010, Pedro Markun<pedro at esfera.mobi>  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> during the Drumbeat Festival people pointed out that our International Hackhaton will take place at the same time as the RHoK - Random Hacks of Kindness ( http://www.rhok.org/ )
>>
>>
>> I do think that both events have a lot in common. Does anybody know people involved? How can we unite forces?
>> []'sPedro Markun
>>