December 6th, 2012 by willowbl00
This is a guest post by Willow Brugh, director of Geeks Without Bounds
Hi, I’m Willow Brugh (aka willowbl00), and I have the honor of telling you about Geeks Without Bounds and response, specifically to Hurricane Sandy. What’s Geeks Without Bounds, you ask? GWOB links together hacker, maker, and developer communities to humanitarian organizations to make good ideas field ready. We participate heavily in other people’s hackathons (like Random Hacks of Kindness and SpaceApps), and provide 6 months of mentorship to teams and projects (some of which come out of those hackathons). We are accepting applications through December 12th. /shamelessPlug
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Tags: crisis commons, crisis relief, FEMA, Geeks without Bounds, GWOB, GWOBorg, Random Hacks of Kindness, RHoK
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November 27th, 2012 by Diggz
Continuing on our recent post about a nifty christmas light hack comes another fun hack from our friends across the pond at Developer Garden. Last July we announced our partnership with Deutsche Telekom’s Developer Garden allowing developers full access to the Tropo API. Recently the folks over a Developer Garden got together with some friends at Oracle for a “DIY Workshop” focusing mostly on Mobile-to-Mobile (M2M) devices.
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Tags: coffee, Developer Garden, DIY
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November 26th, 2012 by Diggz
Get into the holiday spirit with this fun hack by Tropo developer Anthony Webb. This video demonstrates how you can hack your G-35 Holiday Lights by mashing them up with Arduino, Tropo, Nodejs, and a little dash of Ruby code. It also shows the speed of Tropo’s scripting engine using TCP sockets. This allows for extremely low latency, as opposed to simple web callback methods.
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Tags: Arduino, node.js, Ruby
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November 21st, 2012 by Cristina Moe Salanova
It’s that time of year again to hack for humanity and Tropo is proud to sponsor Random Hacks of Kindness San Francisco once again at the new NextSpace office in Union Square December 1-2 2012.
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Tags: Random Hacks of Kindness, San francisco, Tropo
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November 2nd, 2012 by Diggz
Do you want to help with Sandy response? Come design, code, and learn with other people this weekend at a CrisisCamp!
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Tags: crisis, crisis commons, crisis relief, Geeks without Bounds
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October 16th, 2012 by Diggz
We’ll be joining forces again with our friends at the AT&T Foundry for the AT&T Mobile Hackathon for Social Good coming up on October 26-27 in Palo Alto. Mobile App Hackathon is an event produced by the AT&T Developer Program that is designed for attendees (technical & non-technical) to build apps/mobile apps, get fed, compete for prizes across different categories and most importantly: meet new people and scout for teammates to work on new or current projects.
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Tags: AT&T, Foundry, Geeks without Bounds, Hackathon
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October 15th, 2012 by Cristina Moe Salanova
Yes, it’s that time of year again as the third annual AdhearsionConf will be happening in Palo Alto at the AT&T Foundry October 20th-21st and Tropo will be giving away FREE tickets!
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Tags: adhearsion, AdheasrionConf, AT&T Foundry, Ruby, telephony, Tropo
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October 4th, 2012 by Diggz
We’re so happy to be a partner with Startup World, a 36-city worldwide competition to find the most world-changing innovative companies. Startup World is the brainchild of Hermione Way, founder of Newspepper, SIlicon Valley video director of The Next Web, co-founder of Ingite and soon-to-be-tv-star of the upcoming reality show, Silicon Valley Start-Ups, airing on Bravo on November 5th.
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Tags: Mexico, Startup World
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October 2nd, 2012 by Diggz
Over the past couple of years, I’ve done my share of hackathons. The first one I did was in August of 2010 in Seattle at Chris Pirillo’s Gnomedex 10, an “24 Hour Open Government Hackathon“. There I first met Chris Metcalf of Socrata, Aaron Pareki and Amber Case of a yet-to-be-launched Geoloqi, a pre-Code for America Max Ogden, and perhaps most importantly, Willow Brugh, co-founder of Jigsaw Renaissance and director of Geeks Without Bounds.
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September 27th, 2012 by Cristina Moe Salanova
The Code for America Summit is happening October 1st-3rd in San Francisco at the Mission Bay Conference Center, a rare and unique opportunity to gather over 200 leaders and innovators in civic technology.
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Tags: Code For America, Code for America Summit 2012, San francisco, Tropo
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