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Event Roundup, Dec 8

By Erika Owens

Posted on December 8, 2014
This week are many Hacks/Hackers holiday parties as well as your last chance to vote for the NICAR 15 T-Shirt.
Event Roundup, Nov 17

By Erika Owens

Posted on November 17, 2014
Today is the deadline to submit talk ideas to OpenVis Conf and FOSS4G, and later this week a hackathon in Bogotá.
Event Roundup, Nov 9

By Erika Owens

Posted on November 10, 2014
Conferences are happening this week in Missouri and Berlin, plus meetups around the US.
Event Roundup, Oct 20

By Erika Owens

Posted on October 20, 2014
Events are happening this weekend in West Virginia, Munich, Córdoba, and of course, London for the Mozilla Festival.
Event Roundup, Oct 13

By Erika Owens

Posted on October 13, 2014
Events in New York, Bogotá, and London, plus the deadline for the next OpenNews code convening.
Event Roundup, Oct 6

By Erika Owens

Posted on October 6, 2014
Hacks/Hackers are meeting up in four countries this week, plus applications are open to participate in a hackathon at Al Jazeera.
Event Roundup, Sept 29

By Erika Owens

Posted on September 29, 2014
Conferences in Japan and Mexico, plus meetups in New York and Vienna.
Event Roundup, Sept 22

By Erika Owens

Posted on September 22, 2014
Web journalism lovers descend on Chicago this year for the Online News Association annual conference.
Event Roundup, Sept 8

By Erika Owens

Posted on September 8, 2014
Hacks/Hackers meeting up in Europe, and geography nerds in Portland, OR this week.
Event Roundup, Sept 2

By Erika Owens

Posted on September 2, 2014
Meetups this week and hackathons in Buenos Aires and São Paulo.
Event Roundup, Aug 19

By Erika Owens

Posted on August 19, 2014
Hacks/Hackers meetups around Latin America and your last chance to pitch a session proposal to the Mozilla Festival.
Event Roundup, August 11

By Erika Owens

Posted on August 11, 2014
Journalism conference in DC, Hacks/Hackers meetups around the world, and two scraping events in Latin America.
Event Roundup, August 4

By Erika Owens

Posted on August 4, 2014
It’s a quiet week for journo code events, which makes it the perfect time to work on your Knight-Mozilla Fellowship application.
Event Roundup, July 21

By Erika Owens

Posted on July 21, 2014
Yup, this Thursday and Friday is the first conference from OpenNews: SRCCON.
Event Roundup, July 14

By Erika Owens

Posted on July 14, 2014
This week news nerds and data lovers descend on Berlin for the Open Knowledge Festival.
Event Roundup, July 7

By Erika Owens

Posted on July 7, 2014
Meetups this week in Hong Kong, Lima, and Denver.
US Word Cup Roundup

By Tom Meagher

Posted on July 3, 2014
Data editor and soccer fan Tom Meagher rounds up interesting, unusual, and beautifully executed apps and interactives.
Event Roundup, June 30

By Erika Owens

Posted on June 30, 2014
Hacks/Hackers London meetup today and tomorrow kicks off Julython, a month-long event where developers around the world work on pet projects and track their progress and commits.
Meet FCC Squishify and OpenImage

By Erin Kissane

Posted on June 26, 2014
In part one and part two of our #owhack report-backs, we introduced four new projects that emerged from the Hack Day. Today, we introduce the final two and wrap up with our notes from the event’s closing circle.
Meet KeyBlur and America’s Slow Lane

By

Posted on June 25, 2014
Earlier today, I posted a few details about works-in-progress emerging from last weekend’s MIT-Knight-Mozilla Hack Day. The event produced six great projects, and we have two more to share with you: KeyBlur and America’s Slow Lane.