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Lichfield Hacks & Hackers Hack Day (#hhhlich)

Thursday, November 11, 2010 from 9:30 AM to 7:30 PM (GMT)

Lichfield, United Kingdom

Lichfield Hacks & Hackers Hack Day (#hhhlich)

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Type Remaining End     Quantity
Hackers (programmers, designers, developers etc.) Sold Out Ended Free  
Hacks (bloggers, media/communication people, journalists) 3 tickets Ended Free  
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What? Scraperwiki, the award-winning new screen scraper and data mining tool and Lichfield District Council are putting on a one day practical hack day* in Lichfield, Staffordshire at which web developers and designers (hackers) will pair up with journalists and bloggers or anyone with an interest in media and communications (hacks) to produce a number of projects and stories based on public data. It's all part of the ScraperWiki UK & Ireland Hacks and Hackers tour. 

[Please note changed venue to the Best Western, the George Hotel]

Who's it for? We hope to attract 'hacks' and 'hackers' from all different types of backgrounds: people from big media organisations, as well as individual online publishers and freelancers.

What will I get out of it?
The aim is to show journalists how to use programming and design techniques to create online news stories and features; and vice versa, to show programmers how to find, develop, and polish stories and features. To see what happened at our past events in Liverpool and Birmingham visit the ScraperWiki blog.

How much? NOTHING! It's free, thanks to our sponsors, Lichfield District Council and the Lichfield-based hyperlocal and niche journalism platform Journal Local.

What should I bring? We would encourage people to come along with ideas for local ‘datasets’ that are of interest. In addition we will create a list of suggested data sets at the introduction on the morning of the event but flexibility is key for this event. If you have a laptop, please bring this too.

So what exactly will happen on the day? Armed with their laptops and WIFI, journalists and developers will be put into teams of around four to develop their ideas, with the aim of finishing final projects that can be published and shared publicly. Each team will then present their project to the whole group. Overall winners will receive a prize at the end of the day.

*Not sure what a hack day is? Let's go with the Wikipedia definition: It "an event where developers, designers and people with ideas gather to build 'cool stuff'"...

Keep an eye on the ScraperWiki blog for details of all stops on the Hacks and Hackers tour. 

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Best Western, the George Hotel
12-14 Bird Street
WS13 6PR Lichfield
United Kingdom

Thursday, November 11, 2010 from 9:30 AM to 7:30 PM (GMT)


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