I would just like to thank the LIP team for help with a seamless move to new premises within the Park. Thanks to their assistance, the move was stress-free.
Hacks Meets Hackers Event
Date
Friday, July 16, 2010 - 09:30 - 20:00
Summary
Working with local company Scraperwiki, an award winning new screen scraper and data mining tool company, Open Labs is hosting a Hacks meets Hackers event at Liverpool’s Arts and Design Academy in LJMU on Friday 16th July.
Audience
The event is aimed at Hacks (journalists/bloggers) and hackers (developers/designers/coders) from all different types of backgrounds: people from big media organisations, as well as individual online publishers and freelancers.
This type of event provides a unique opportunity to demonstrate to journalists how they can 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.
Agenda
- Delegates are encouraged 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. Journalists and developers, armed with laptops and free WIFI, will form into small teams to develop 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. Food and drink will be provided during the day!
Location
Academy of Art & Design, Duckinfield Street, Off Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, L3 5YD
Cost
Free to Attend
It’s free to attend so if want to know more and are interested in participating (places arelimited) go to http://blog.scraperwiki.com/day/2010/06/22.
