[Grassroots-l] hackathon/mini-Jam in Boston, Sat. 2/16

[Samuel Klein]

A sympathetic jam in San Fran on Saturday would be fantastic.  Ed, do
you know a place that could host one?  Could you help put the word
out?  A group from Creative Commons might be interested in joining and
spreading the word.

SJ

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com> wrote:
> Right - hence the [[Jams]] page on the wiki. There's even a
>  [[Template:Jam]] for folks who want to host their own hacking party (we
>  avoided calling it a "hackathon" because nontechnical contributions are
>  equally important and welcome.)
>
>  I know a bunch of people on this list have attended and run Jams before
>  - please feel free to clean up the [[How to run a jam]] guide, if you
>  have tips and advice for others running future events.
>
>  -Mel
>
>
>
>  Edward Cherlin wrote:
>  > I am involved with hackathons in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. It
>  > seems to me that we need a place to coordinate our work, so that
>  > people joining the various hackathons around the country and the globe
>  > can find out what to work on and share what they are doing.
>  >
>  > On Feb 13, 2008 10:47 AM, Nicole Lee <nicole.lee at students.olin.edu> wrote:
>  >> The Olin College OLPC chapter, on the wiki at [[Olin university chapter]],
>  >> is hosting a min-jam in the Boston area this weekend. we will be running it
>  >> at Olin, about 40 minutes outside of Boston/Cambridge [in Needham, MA], and
>  >> we'd love to have local contributors [hardware, software, education, wiki
>  >> people, general content; anything really] swing by. The event will run from
>  >> 12:00pm on Saturday until 6:00am on Sunday morning. You can find more
>  >> details on the wiki at [[University Chapter Jam Boston]] or at our website,
>  >> <http://olinolpc.org>.
>  >>
>  >> In addition to participants, we are also looking for good project ideas,
>  >> along the lines of
>  >> <http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/Ideas_for_activities>. If
>  >> you have anything, email me, leave a note on my talk page [[User
>  >> talk:Nlee]], or on the event page [[Talk:University Chapter Jam Boston]].
>  >>
>  >> Thanks!
>  >> -Nikki
>  >>
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