Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) Melbourne Winter Hackathon

What is RHoK? A wrap-up of the two-day RHoK Melbourne Winter Hackathon, hosted at Swinburne University of Technology on 30th & 31st May 2015. Presented as part of the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing Director's Lunch talk series ,13th July 2015

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1. CAS Director’s Lunch,13th July 2015
   

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2. Global Organisation
   Disaster management and crisis response
   World Bank’s Disaster Risk Reduction Unit,
   NASA’s Open Government Team, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo
   @randomhacks
   @rhokmelb
   #rhok
   

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3. 2009
   Hacker Dojo
   Mountain View CA
   2010
   Microsoft
   Washington DC
   6 satellite events
   “winning” hack:
   CHASM landslide prediction
   2013 (RHoK 5.0)
   UN Secretary General
   Ban Ki-moon
   NASA Deputy Administrator
   Lori Garver
   2012
   Global Hack theme
   sanitation & water quality
   

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4. 2014/2015 Winter & Summer Hackathons
   Melbourne Winter Hackthon May 30 & 31
   

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8. How to run a Hackathon
   @angushervey
   Community Manager and co-founder of Future Crunch
   Changemakers
   RHoKstars
   Sponsors
   

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9. The New Joneses
   http://thenewjoneses.com
   Dialect Mapping in Timor Leste
   http://www.timorlink.org
   Melbourne Maker Space
   Mapping project
   http://melbournemakerspace.org
   Apps4Autism
   http://apps4autism.net
   Social Catalysts
   http://socialcatalysts.net
   ~70 people
   Business analysts
   Software developers
   Web and application developers
   Industrial and graphic designers
   Writers & Communicators
   Researchers
   Project managers
   Teachers
   Generally clever/interesting
   people with fresh ideas
   Changemakers RHoKstars
   

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10. Food…
    Lots of food…
    

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11. How to run a RHoK-athon
    1. Organisations contact RHoK (pre-hackathon)
    2. Changemakers pitch to RHoKstars
    3. Groups form, discussion & planning
    4. Two days to develop hacks
    5. Part-timers work on a separate project
    5. Hack presentations/prizes (future funding?)
    6. Celebrate at the pub
    

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12. Timor-leste project
    Dialect mapping & linguistic research
    Education is in a pretty dire state
    • Literacy rate is 48% for ages 15+ years (2001, UNICEF)
    • 2001: language of instruction - Indonesian
    • - 2015: language of instruction - Tetum & Portuguese
    • But most people speak local dialects
    Most people don’t have a home computer or internet
    But nearly everyone has a knock-off Samsung
    

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21. Melbourne Summer Hackathon
    December 6 & 7, 2015
    

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23. http://www.rhokaustralia.org
    http://www.rhokaustralia.org/projects/
    https://github.com/RHoKAustralia
    http://www.futurecrunch.com.au
    https://www.changemakers.com
    http://datathon.zusedigital.com
    http://www.yorkbutterfactory.com
    https://www.nasa.gov/open
    http://netengine.com.au/projects/crisis-mapping/
    Check out these links
    

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24. http://rhok.org
    http://www.rhokbrisbane.org
    http://www.rhok.ca
    http://blogs.deusto.es/rhok-bilbao/
    http://www.rhoktoronto.com @RHOKTO
    RHoK Bogota @RHoKBOG
    Search for rhok on Twitter to find all sites
    https://www.crisiscommons.org @CrisisCamp
    RHoK around the world
    

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