"Money Trail" hackathon with 13 cities in Latin America

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Join the first-ever pan Latin American "Money Trail" hackathon (http://larutadeldinero.info/) with 13 other Hacks/Hackers chapters in Latin America. We'll be the only U.S. chapter joining in. It's a great opportunity to collaborate across borders and learn more about budgets, government spending, campaign finance, and South Florida's financial ties to Latin America.

Check out the details about the regional event at http://larutadeldinero.info/

And start figuring out what you want to work on at our Hackdash: http://dineromia.hackdash.org/

If you're ready to dig into some data and work with other passionate journalists, designers and developers, come join us for a collaborative hack day! Newbies and pros are welcome. Bring your skills and let's follow the money together.

This ground-breaking hackathon has already been previewed by Univision (http://noticias.univision.com/article/1976117/2014-06-03/tecnologia/no-te-pierdas-el-hackday-latinoamericano-la-ruta-del-dinero), The Associated Press (http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/05/31/4149019/pan-latin-hackathon-seeks-to-follow.html), The Miami Herald's Starting Gate blog (http://miamiherald.typepad.com/the-starting-gate/2014/06/this-saturday-journalists-developers-and-designers-are-invited-to-take-part-in-a-simultaneous-14-city-civic-hackathon.html) and the Knight Foundation blog (http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2014/6/4/miami-joins-latin-america-money-trailing-hackathon/).

Here's what we will have:
• fun
• food (breakfast and lunch)
• cool people with lots of different skills
• a day to learn from and work with those people
• an interesting and important problem to tackle
• data, data, data
• silly swag

Here's what we won't have:
• sweaty overnight coding
• big fake checks
• big real checks
• any checks at all
• judging

We'll have some fantastic facilitators on hand to ensure a fantastic experience. We are:

• Andres Lizcano Rodriguez, Co-organizer, Univision (journalist)
• Dan Grech, Co-organizer, Hacks Hackers MIA (journalist)
• Adrian Cardenas, Code for Miami (php developer)
• Aleyda Mejia, Code for Miami (coder)
• Susan Jacobson, FIU professor (data journalist)

Here's our schedule:

• 9 am - Coffee and Pastelitos
• 9:25 am - Intro (Dan and Andres)
• 9:30 am - Hacklab grants & our 13 partner cities (Andres)
• 9:40 am - What other sites are doing (Adrian)
• 9:45 am - Brainstorm (Dan facilitates)
• 10:15 am - Hackdash tutorial (Adrian)
• 10:20 am - Break into groups
• 10:30 am - Data journalism tutorial - optional (Susan)
• 1 pm - Lunch break
• 5 pm - Group Show & Tell
• 5:30 pm - Closing time

But the most important agenda item is: Have fun!

See you soon!

Thanks to Univision for hosting this event and to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for feeding all of our hungry Hacks and Hackers!

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