Hacks/Hackers September Meetup

It's September, and we're back. Hacks Hackers this Autumn will see us gathering around the digital hearth on dark and stormy nights, listening to tales of intrepid coding and brave blogging. Kicking off with...

1. Aron Pilhofer (http://aronpilhofer.com/), @pilhofer (https://twitter.com/pilhofer), the Guardian

Aron is the newly appointed executive editor of digital at the Guardian in London, a New York Times alumnus and co-founder of DocumentCloud.org (http://documentcloud.org/) and Hacks & Hackers (http://hackshackers.com/) in the US (woop!). Likes boats.

2) Josie Delap, @josiedelap (https://twitter.com/josiedelap), The Economist

Josie is Home Affairs correspondent at The Economist, working recently on the paper's exploration of prostitution and the internet. (http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21611074-how-new-technology-shaking-up-oldest-business-more-bang-your-buck) Likes to box.

Lighting pitches include...

Susan Saunders on Cryptoparty

Joanna Geary on a New Project

Drinks!

Offered by our friends at Cronycle (www.cronycle.com (http://www.cronycle.com/)), who believe that news value are too important to be left to algorithmic filtering.