*RiverHack 1.0* Hackathon >> Build Water Quality Visualization Tools @ Oxhack Next Friday-Saturday
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Lauren Hutchinson
Oct 7, 2016, 6:03:45 PM10/7/16
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Good evening all,
Apologies for cross-posting if you've seen this already.
Next Friday and Saturday, Oxford Hackspace will be hosting a 1.5-day hackathon called RiverHack 1.0. You're invited!
Next Friday and Saturday, Oxford Hackspace will be hosting a 1.5-day hackathon called RiverHack 1.0. You're invited!
This
is an event that we've been working on together with a bunch of
university and charity partners for many months, and we hope it will be
the first in a series of water quality hackathons to be held at Oxhack.
Future events may include the construction of IoT sensors for deployment
in the field, which may then send information back to the aerials we
hope to put up on the roof--but for now this first event is to get an
active water community established, informed, and tackling the challenges.
The hackathon will run from 6pm until midnight on Friday the 14th of October, and 9am to 8pm on Saturday, Oct. 15th.
Here's the event description below:
Are you a lover of the outdoors, of walking by the river, wild swimming, angling, canoeing?
Are you passionate about protecting the health of our rivers and of our families?
Do you have a background in software development, data manipulation, STEM, graphic design or as an invested user of our waterways?
Do you believe we can develop our community into one that will take the necessary steps to make a healthy environment happen?
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Announcing *RiverHack 1.0*, a hackathon bringing together citizens and waterway user communities with water scientists, environmental charities, the Environment Agency, local government and a mass of programmers, artists and data scientists, to together hear what the challenges to river health are, and to see what we can do about them.
If the above speaks to you, please join us at Oxhack from Friday 14th for this hackathon celebrating our great British waterways, where we will seek to construct prediction and visualization tools to solve challenges, and to help support waterways health, now and for the next generation.
To read more about this event, to explore the challenges we're trying to solve and to see some of the big data types that will be available, go to the event homepage here. (Click X on the sign-in box to make it disappear.)
Then please go to the Oxhack Meetup page and *RSVP* if you'd like to come!
The event is free to attend (and so is the pizza!), but places are limited. <3
Thanks for reading, and hope to see you there!
Are you a lover of the outdoors, of walking by the river, wild swimming, angling, canoeing?
Are you passionate about protecting the health of our rivers and of our families?
Do you have a background in software development, data manipulation, STEM, graphic design or as an invested user of our waterways?
Do you believe we can develop our community into one that will take the necessary steps to make a healthy environment happen?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Announcing *RiverHack 1.0*, a hackathon bringing together citizens and waterway user communities with water scientists, environmental charities, the Environment Agency, local government and a mass of programmers, artists and data scientists, to together hear what the challenges to river health are, and to see what we can do about them.
If the above speaks to you, please join us at Oxhack from Friday 14th for this hackathon celebrating our great British waterways, where we will seek to construct prediction and visualization tools to solve challenges, and to help support waterways health, now and for the next generation.
To read more about this event, to explore the challenges we're trying to solve and to see some of the big data types that will be available, go to the event homepage here. (Click X on the sign-in box to make it disappear.)
Then please go to the Oxhack Meetup page and *RSVP* if you'd like to come!
The event is free to attend (and so is the pizza!), but places are limited. <3
Thanks for reading, and hope to see you there!
Lauren
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Lauren Hutchinson
Coordinator
Oxford Hackspace
07708 931042
07708 931042
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