[Freedomlab-london] Random Hacks of Kindness (London)

[Martin Kummel]

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN


Dear former FreedomLab / HackLab members,

I am posting this message to you in hope that one or some of you may be able
to help us with an exciting project that we wish to bring to London. I've
read on your website that, before the Media HackLab was dismantled, it stood
for using technology to bring about social change. In light of this, please
allow me to shortly introduce our project which I hope some of you may wish
to get involved with.

The project is called *Random Hacks of Kindness (RHok)*, a joint initiative
of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, The World Bank and NASA to bring together
hackers for weekend codejams to develop software surrounding disaster
risk/management (more information attached).

RHoK is hosting a global hackathon on* June 5th/6th* in Washington D.C. in
conjunction with the Understanding Risk conference at the World Bank and the
D.C. Crisis Camp, and we are collaborating with Crisis Commons on making
this hackathon *a global event with simultaneous hackathons taking place in
Sydney, Jakarta, London, Sao Paolo and possibly Nairobi*.

RHoK has a few thousand dollars (US) funding for each global satellite event
which could go towards catering, t-shirts, AV, or other costs. But we are
working with local organizations in each location *to source space, reach
out to the developer community, and collaborate with RHoK and Crisis Commons
on the logistical side.* The D.C. event will begin with a keynote reception
at the U.S. State Department on the evening of 4th June. The satellite
locations, however, do not need to have a reception component.

Essentially we are looking for a local partner who can help us track down
the appropriate space (electricity/connectivity/24 hour access for the
weekend) and help us reach out to the local hacker community and invite them
(act as something of a local lead). We are hoping that each local event will
attract up to 50 participants but will leave it up to the local partners to
determine what is realistic.

We realize we are looking at a tight time frame but hope to nail down all
satellite hacking spaces in the next few days. Naturally, this event will
receive good press coverage and we are more than happy to showcase our local
partners in all press releases and our website. Do you know anyone,
individual or hacking space, which would be willing be able to help us with
this project? I would be grateful if someone could get in touch with us to
discuss this further.

In any case, I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,

Martin Kummel
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martin kummel | secondmuse
mob +49 160 8581 889
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