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Roundup Event Roundup, Mar 10
- By Erika Owens
Meetups this week in Buenos Aires and La Paz, plus a journalism hackathon before SXSW.
Roundup Event Roundup, Mar 2
- By Erika Owens
This week, hundreds of news nerds will gather in Atlanta for the National Institute of Computer Assisted Reporting’s annual conference.
Roundup Event Roundup, Feb 23
- By Erika Owens
Meetups, trainings, and hackathons around the world this week, plus plenty of opportunities for you to pitch proposals to upcoming events.
Roundup Event Roundup, Feb 17
- By Erika Owens
A week full of deadlines: SND competition and SNDMakes application, ONA-Poynter Women’s Leadership Academy, and NICAR Lightning Talks voting.
Roundup Event Roundup, Feb 2
- By Erika Owens
Meetups this week in DC and Helsinki, plus a hack day in NYC.
Update Source Hiring & Appreciations
We’re planning many changes and additions to Source over the course of 2015. I’ll write about those as they happen, but our first announcement is about changes behind the scenes. I am very happy to announce a new opening for an assistant editor, to join me and the rest of the team in keeping Source watertight and pointed in the right direction. If that sounds like you or someone you know, please take a look at the job description and send us a résumé.
Roundup Event Roundup, Jan 20
- By Erika Owens
Events around the world this week, plus tons of conferences accepting proposals and other upcoming deadlines.
Project Scraping Nevada
Derek Willis breaks down the three stages of scraping (denial, annoyance, and acceptance) while confronting the election-results form from hell.
Roundup Event Roundup, Jan 5
- By Erika Owens
Start 2015 off with a talk proposal or apply for a hack curriculum grant.
Project Introducing Bedfellows
The financial relationship between PAC contributors and recipients can be difficult to divine from the information reported to the FEC. Bedfellows is a new Python library based on a model developed at The Upshot for understanding those relationships via several different measures.
Project Tag Soup: Using Custom Elements to Cover Elections and Beyond
How the Seattle Times’ election page served as a testbed for custom elements in a news app, and what it means for other news apps teams.
Roundup Event Roundup, Dec 15
- By Erika Owens
Close out 2015 with a local meetup or check out some upcoming deadlines.
Project Reporting from the Youngest Land on Earth
How ProPublica and The Lens got the aerial photos they needed to produce Losing Ground.
Roundup Event Roundup, Dec 8
- By Erika Owens
This week are many Hacks/Hackers holiday parties as well as your last chance to vote for the NICAR 15 T-Shirt.
Project How to Build an App for 14 Member Newsrooms
What INN’s newsroom technology team learned about inter-organizational collaboration while building Power Players, and what they’ll do differently next time.
Project Introducing Clarify
An open source elections-data URL locator and parser for Clarity Elections results, from the team at OpenElections.
Project Introducing MinnPost’s Election Night API
The Election Night API is a set of tools, configurations, and instructions to collect and serve election results on election night, while still providing an off-season service, and focusing on saving resources as much as possible.
Project Introducing Wherewolf
Last week, as part of the OpenNews post-election Code Convening, Jenny Ye and Noah Veltman put the finishing touches on Wherewolf, a JavaScript library that lets you run a boundary service in a browser.
Project Introducing Whippersnapper
As part of the OpenNews Code Convening held earlier this month, we’re releasing Whippersnapper—an automated screenshot tool to keep a visual history of content on the web. It builds on top of other open source projects to capture and upload screenshots of a web page, giving users creative power to track how the internet visually changes.
Event Return of the Code Convenings: Elections and Updates
- By Erin Kissane
- Geoff Hing, Erik Hinton, Alyson Hurt, Tom Nehil, Alan Palazzolo, Katie Park, Ryan Pitts, Kevin Schaul, Noah Veltman, Ben Welsh, Derek Willis, Jenny Ye
- California Civic Data Coalition, MinnPost, NPR, OpenElections, OpenNews, ProPublica, The New York Times, The Washington Post, WNYC
Earlier this month, we held our third-ever OpenNews Code Convening, and our first one west of Portland, Oregon. Code Convenings are short events that bring together pairs of developers from news organizations to finish, document, and release open source projects they’ve been chipping away at.
