Sorry for any cross posting or if this is irrelevant to the group, but...
Would any of you machine learning guys maybe be interested in a series of
hackathons aiming to improve our city? I have been in contact with
Newcastle City Council for a while now and they really support the idea
and they are committed to follow up on good ideas to improve our city,
coming out of such events... and they have lots of data they want to share with us. I have support from Newcastle University
where I'm doing a PhD too, but I would really like it not to be
organised too top-down by big institutions so it would be great to get
some makers/hackers/coders/data enthusiasts and other people with a
passion for the city on board to decide how we are going to do it, what
themes we should focus on and so on.
You can read a bit more
here and subscribe to a mailing list I have created for everyone
interested to communicate with each other:
https://lists.ncl.ac.uk/wws/letsimaginenewcastle
(even if you are not interested in organising anything, but just
curious to know when we'll do any hackathons you are of course also
welcome to join this list)
Cheers,
Nikolai Gad