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

[Gringoben]

This is a joke right?

Ben




On 10 May 2010, at 12:56, Martin Kummel <martin.kummel at secondmuse.com>  
wrote:

>
> 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
>
> <RHoK Description.pdf>
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