Fireside Demos!
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Join Hacks Hackers DC for fireside demos! Come in and see what projects community members are working on. Hear what made them want to start working on the project, how they built it, what tools they used and how they hope to expand and grow.
Afterwards join the rest of the Hacks Hackers community at PennSocial for some socializing and networking.
Lineup:
Shannon Turner: Seriously (http://shannonvturner.com/seriously/)
Shannon Turner is a software developer and the founder of Hear Me Code, offering free, beginner-friendly women-only coding classes for over 800 women in DC. In addition to teaching and designing Hear Me Code’s curriculum, she also serves as a mentor with Code for Progress.
In her spare time, she works on several coding side projects including games to help people discover, learn about, and share art from museums around the world; a site that tells you whether a movie passes the Bechdel test — and suggests another movie if it doesn’t; a site exposing who gives money to misogynist, racist, and anti-LGBTQ politicians; and many other projects. Her full portfolio is available at shannonvturner.com (http://shannonvturner.com/).
About the project:
A list of 500 colleges and universities that said they had zero sexual assaults on their campuses between 2010 and 2012. Were there actually zero, or are these schools not taking campus sexual assault seriously? http://shannonvturner.com/seriously/
Sonia Hinson and Kate Pazoles: Buscando (http://www.buscando.io)
Buscando is the place where needs meet services. On the Buscando site, volunteer families in Maryland and the children seeking refuge from violence in Central America connect with local community organizations and resources. A collective of D.C.-area technologists created Buscando, the primary technological tool to support the coordination of efforts across communities, partnering individual, community groups and state government departments to care for the children when they arrive in Maryland.
Misha Vinokur: Openreporter (https://www.openreporter.org)
Openreporter is a news discovery platform for journalists. Powered by Bulletin (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bulletin-by-openreporter/id940943617?mt=8), a mobile app that allows individuals to report newsworthy events directly to journalists the platform helps freelance journalists discover unique and interesting stories to report on.
Chris A. Williams: Chartable (https://twitter.com/enactd)
As a freelance web developer, Chris A. Williams realized the favorite part of his day was spent reading the news. In 2013 he started the graduate journalism program at Medill so he could incorporate that into his job description. He started an internship at the Washington Post in September, 2014. For the past three months he has been working on a web application to simplify the creation of basic charts and graphs built on the D3 visualization library. The project has been named Chartable, and the plan is to release it as open source in the Spring.
Fireside Demos!