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An event bringing together data scientists, developers, designers and others to work on open data
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Check past hackathons and similar events in or around C'ville #16

Closed Daniel-Mietchen closed 6 years ago

Daniel-Mietchen commented 6 years ago

try to find some public records of such events that have been organized in C'ville over the past 2 years, and see what we could learn from them.

jcruser commented 6 years ago

A few recent hackathons : Hack UVA: http://hackuva.io/ - goal to create a platform/application from scratch Charlottesville civic innovation day: https://www.smartcville.com/charlottesville-civic-innovation-day-2017/ - thinking of how to solve c-ville specific problems with technology. Hoos Hacking : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hoos-hacking-registration-18999340539# - Social Enterprise Project Challenge to benefit Computers4Kids

jcruser commented 6 years ago

There is also a hackathon this weekend (3rd Annual Health UnBound Hack-a-Thon.) The theme will be focused on Virtual Reality and its applications in the medical field. Representatives from the UVA Pediatric Department, McGuire VA Medical Center Assistive Technology Program, Willow Tree, and UVA VR labs will be the mentors/judges

Daniel-Mietchen commented 6 years ago

Here's a link to the Health UnBound Hack-a-Thon on Nov 4-5: https://career.virginia.edu/blog/2017/sep/healthunbounds-hubs-virtual-reality-hack-thon .

There's also the Data Science Meetup on Nov 16: https://www.meetup.com/CharlottesvilleDataScience/events/244483558/ .

Daniel-Mietchen commented 6 years ago

Closing for now. May be worth revisiting for the next iteration.