Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) Summer Hackathon

Presented as part of the Director's Lunch Talk series, to the Centre for Supercomputing & Astrophysics, Swinburne University of Technology.

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1. CAS Director’s Lunch,7th December 2015
   

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2. Summer Hackathon
   5th & 6th December
   @randomhacks
   @RHoKAustralia
   @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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5. It begins with IDEATION
   Working with the changemakers (late October)
   Start by asking
   the right
   questions
   figuring out
   the problem
   Ponder over
   pizza
   and drinks!
   Thanks
   Aconex
   TILT
   COMMIT
   FILL
   ENJOY
   

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7. Organising Committee meeting at Pozzible HQ
   Info Night at Aconex (Late November)
   

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8. i.pee.freely
   http://changingplaces.org.au
   Right Click!
   FoodUP!
   http://www.tffchallenge.com/team/
   2014/food-up/
   On a Roll 21
   http://www.onaroll21.com
   Melbourne Maker Space
   Mapping project
   http://melbournemakerspace.org
   ~70 people
   Business analysts
   Software developers
   Web and application developers
   Industrial and graphic designers
   Writers & Communicators
   Researchers
   Project managers
   Teachers
   Generally clever and interesting
   people with fresh ideas
   Changemakers RHoKstars
   

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9. $30,000 and 1 year support for kickstarting projects from
   Amazon Web Services and Base2
   

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25. It wasn’t just Melbourne.
    RHoK GLOBAL summer & winter hacks during Nov/Dec
    Bangalore, Sydney, Brisbane, Washington, Johannesburg
    

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26. 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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27. 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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