Hartford

The RHoK #3 hackathon event will take place on June 4th and 5th at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a unique collaboration between Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA and the World Bank dedicated to using technology to make the world a better place by building a volunteer community of innovation.

RHoK collaborates with subject matter experts in disaster risk to develop and define problems, which form the framework of a RHoK hackathon—a marathon weekend event of competitive coding, gathering software engineers together to develop software to respond to global challenges and crises. A RHoK event brings together the best and brightest developers from around the world, who volunteer their time to solve real world problems.

RHoK hackers and events have been encouraged in their efforts by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and “Father of Internet” Vint Cerf, and have received widespread international media coverage, including an in-depth story by NPR and a post on the White House blog.

Registration Deadline: 
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Hackathon Location: 
Trinity College, Mather Hall, Hartford CT
Hackathon Details: 
What to bring: your Laptop, and your Brain (and may be a power strip.) Click on update below for Weekend Schedule.
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Event Updates

Thank you to all our Participants!!!

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RHoK Hartford (June 4th and 5th) concluded this evening with tough decisions for guest judges. "Commodities Tracker for Haiti"and "First Responder Bluetooth Based Alerting and Tracking System" jointly took first place, with all other hacks receiving runner ups, with every team receiving a prize at the end of the day. Well done to everyone for a great job and fun weekend in Hartford, CT. A special thanks to all our local sponsors, Trinity College, the Humanitarian FOSS Project, Tropo and O'Reilly and Google for helping us pull off a successful event. Check us out on Flickr at: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/hfoss/sets/72157626761729351/]

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The Weekend Schedule in Hartford

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Weekend Schedule

Saturday, June 4, 2011
8:00 – 9:00am Arrive and breakfast
9:00 -9:30 Introductions and Questions
9:30 – 11:30 Pick your problem definitions and teams. Start brainstorming
11:45 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 5:00 Coding, doing, brainstorming
5:00 – 6:00 Stand-up – Quick Discussion about your team’s work
6:00 – 7:00 pm Dinner
7:00 – ongoing (Optional to stay late. Otherwise, we’ll see you the next day)
9:00pm – Go Home/Dorm for the night, and continue working or sleep! 

Sunday, June 5, 2011
8:00 – 9:00 am Arrive and enjoy breakfast
9-11:30 More coding
11:45 – 12:45 Lunch
12:45 – 3:00 Code, presentation prep
3:00 – 4:30 Demos and Prizes for best hacks!!!!
4:30pm - 6:00pm Reception

“Random Hacks of Kindness” Hackathon to be Held at Trinity

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HARTFORD, CT, May 26, 2011 – Trinity College will be one of 15 global sites to sponsor a Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) gathering of volunteer software developers on June 4 and 5, an initiative designed to help find technology solutions for natural and man-made disaster response......


RHoK #3 Hartford announcement posted on Trinity College website.