Posts Tagged ‘GWOBorg’
Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
This weekend in San Francisco, join Tropo for a special kind of hackathon welcoming first time hackers. Everyone Hacks is designed to create safe space while expanding what you think you’re capable of. In a collaborative setting, you’ll produce a surprising amount of work in a very short period of time, both with people you have only just met and old friends. The event is reaching out to women who are interested in these events, and is definitely transgender and queer friendly. Male-bodied folk are also welcome.
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Tags: Everyone Hacks, Geeks without Bounds, GWOB, GWOBorg, HP, Nextspace, SendGrid
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Thursday, December 6th, 2012
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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Friday, December 9th, 2011
Ushahidi is a platform for crowdsourcing information. Members of the public submit reports that are geo-located and then put on a map. The platform is used in disaster relief, election monitoring and just about any other situation where people need to learn things from one another quickly and concisely. Out of the box, Ushahidi allows people to submit reports via the web, mobile applications, Twitter, Facebook with support for a few SMS APIs as well.
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Tags: GWOBorg, IM, PHP, SMS, Tropo, Ushahidi
Posted in Cool, free, IM, Location, mashups, Open Source, PHP, Samples, SMS, SourceCode, Tropo | 2 Comments »
Monday, December 5th, 2011
What a weekend! Tropo sponsored Random Hacks of Kindness events in 4 different cities. We’re still resting up from the craziness, but I wanted to do a quick post about the winning project in San Francisco.
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Tags: Geeks without Bounds, GWOBorg, RHoK, San francisco
Posted in Awesome, Cool, Events, SMS, Video | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
What an amazing weekend the Tropo team had across the country this weekend, with Tropo representing at simultaneous events in Seattle, Philadelphia, New York City & Raleigh. In Seattle, Tropo teamed up with Geeks Without Bounds to be the U.S. Main Stage event for Random Hacks of Kindness. We gathered folks from NASA, Microsoft, Crisis Commons, Code for America and brought together geeks like Chris Pirillo (founder of Gnomedex), Chris Metcalf (Socrata), Mike Laine (Liftport Space Elevator) and Ed Jezierski (CTO of Instedd).
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Tags: Geeks without Bounds, GWOBorg, Hackathon, Random Hacks of Kindness, RHoK
Posted in Awesome, Events, Tropo, Video | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
Over the weekend about two dozen developers gathered at the Jupiter Hotel in Portland OR for the Open Government West Apps Contest. The Cross-Gov Apps Contest represented one of the first efforts to get government data providers from Canada and the US to share data and expertise through one apps competition event. The goal is to see apps developed that utilize two or more government’s data, or scale across at least two governments.
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Tags: GWOBorg, Hackathon, Open Government, portland, socrata
Posted in applications, Awesome, Events, Tropo | 3 Comments »
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Tropo is joining Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, The World Bank and NASA at the Random Hacks of Kindness Hackathon (RHoK #3) on June 3-5 in Seattle and Philadelphia! Seattle is going to be the ONLY main stage RHoK event in the United States, and we’re proud to be sponsoring the event and reception with our friends at Geeks without Bounds.
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Tags: GWOBorg, Hackathon, philadelphia, Random Hacks of Kindness, Seattle
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