[open-government] International Hackhaton - RHoK?

Tue Nov 9 20:56:38 UTC 2010

Sara - hope you are getting some responses to this... Would love to see 
RHoK/OGHD event in Birmingham... I know that this is what is happening 
in Toronto as well. I would love if some opendata people got introduce 
to RHoK, crisiscommons and the great work you guys do!

On 10-11-09 2:07 AM, Sara Farmer wrote:
> Once more, without the annoying question marks...
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm one of the people in both the RHOK and OGHD camps. And I have a 
> suggestion for you all...  a combined RHOK / OGHD camp in Birmingham UK.
>
> This makes sense to me on several levels:
>
> * History: the last hackathon in this venue was crisis software for 
> local authorities that was produced as part of the Beyond 2010 open 
> government event
>
> * Opportunity: There are people in the UN thinking about humanitarian 
> open data, and putting humanitarians and open government folks in the 
> same space could spark some good ideas on this
>
> * Geography: The UK is roughly halfway round the world in hackathon 
> timezone terms, and could link the two camp sets together.
>
> But I could really do with your opinions on this.
>
> And volunteers!
> We have a venue in the centre of Birmingham for the 4th and 5th 
> December, if we can find people to run the hackathon on the day. There 
> are people (including myself) who are happy to help organising before 
> the event, but they're all away for the weekend itself - either on 
> holidays or in camps on the other side of the world.
>
> So a) what do you think of this idea, and b) who wants to join in?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Sara.
>
>
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