On November 28th and 29th, 2016, a group of passionate people came together to the Random Hacks Of Kindness Brisbane event hosted at News Corp in Bowen Hills.
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Well, we did in the end, but let’s talk about how we got their first as I ventured into my second experience at a Random Hacks of Kindness Hackathon.
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I first heard about RHoK and the hackathons that they run about a year ago. I had this idea for an app to help people in Timor-Leste carry out their own research and translate resources for mother tongue language education programmes…
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Brisbane Winter 2015 was my first Random Hacks of Kindness event, as well as the first hackathon I've ever attended. I had been looking for a way of meeting inspired people that are keen to make a difference…
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I love hackathons. That’s why for 7 years I organized nearly 40 hackathons at Facebook. At first, I simply did it because I loved the energy of all the people and the freedom to explore ideas outside the scope of my day job.
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We sat down with one of our newest changemakers, Robert Dane at the recent summer hackathons and asked him a few questions. Robert is the CEO of Ocius, a really great little project to use a self-powered ocean going drone to gather data about changes in sea temperatures.
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The beating heart of RHoK is the people that give up their time to come down and contribute at our events. Without them, none of this stuff would happen.
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Last week, Bill and Melinda Gates released their annual letter outlining their big bet for the future. Their letter reinforces their continued optimism around the progress foreign aid has made in the last 15 years, and their bets are to see reduced child deaths, Africa feeding itself…
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A few months ago, we heard about an really interesting project called the Wheelchair Accessible Transport Drivers Association, or WATDA.
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It's a good sign when a meeting begins with pulling beers out of the fridge. And it was just the first of many surprises as we found ourselves taking part in our first hackathon.
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Last weekend’s Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) event in Sydney saw my RHoK hackathon weekend count click over to five. That’s a lot of pizza and “do-gooding.”
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