Hacks/Hackers Meet Up

[Kenneth Kalmer]

Hi everyone

Got asked to spread the word about this event happening tonight in Jozi & CT. I think it is a worthy cause.

Have a fantastic weekend.

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From: Siyabonga Africa <siya...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:14 AM
Subject: Hacks/Hackers Meet Up
To: Kenneth Kalmer <kenneth...@gmail.com>

Hi Kenneth

Hope all is well on your end. Tomorrow night Hacks/Hackers Joburg and Cape Town in conjunction with the Indigo Trust, the funders of the People's Assembly tool, and Code for South Africa whose Know Your Hood API (application programming interface - think of it like a database of information that you can use in your own personally built app) was used by the Mail and Guardian recently.

The meet up itself is a precursor to a larger hacks/hackers election hackthon (much like the one the Global Editors' Network) hosted in Cape Town last year. We hope to use the API's during our election hackathon so it would be beneficial to see and hear from the people behind them.

Here's the link to the meet up: http://www.meetup.com/HacksHackersAfrica/events/176202002/

I thought this would be a great opportunity for Ruby devs and other language devs to hear about some civic tech API's they could use to build tools. If you could spread of this around it would be greatly appreciated.

As per usual snacks and drinks will be made freely available and we'd appreciate the attendance and support. 

Thanks and regards

Siya

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Siyabonga Africa

Ford Foundation Fellow 2010/2011

South Africa

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Kenneth Kalmer
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http://opensourcery.co.za
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[Kenneth Kalmer]

It was a great meetup, these guys really need us as developers to step up and help, and besides, it is an awesome problem space.

Have a look at http://www.code4sa.org/ and http://code4sa.hackdash.org/ for more details of what Code for South Africa is up to.

Have an awesome weekend!

[Marc Heiligers]

Hey Kenneth,

Dang, I would've loved to have been there. Are you going to give us a write-up/blog/way of getting involved even if we're nowhere near Jozie (or CT)?

Ciao,

Marc

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