Winter Hackathon 2016

On the 4th and 5th June 2016, individuals and groups from around Australia will be joining in to hack for humanity. If you're in Melbourne it would be great to see you at the RHoK Melbourne event.

We're looking for 'hackers' who are passionate about technology. They have varied skills and backgrounds including software developers, business analysts and graphic designers.

Our hackers will be working with changemakers from the community who are working to solve a problem, and have a vision for how technology can help reach their goals.

Our goal is to bring organisations that have a social impact together with skilled technologists who want to make a difference, in an environment ideal for collaboration and innovation.

PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS

Volunteer Impact

Volunteer Impact wants to help environmental restoration projects create great impact stories from their data, so that they get more funding and better engage volunteers, to make the world a little more wild. At RHoK we want to connect with creatives, data wranglers, software developers and unapologetic generalists, to help us build a proof of concept prototype which we can get real users to start playing with. Our longer term intention is to build a social enterprise to extend the reach and Impact of this work. We need your help to get us started!

20Squared

We want to help early school leavers who are at risk of long-term unemployment. Our plan is to create a prototype Virtual Reality game that gives young people insight into, and the confidence to engage with work. We’re hoping RHoK can help us develop a template that will give us some perspectives on the kind of content that young people feel is relevant for them.

Berry Street

Children in the child protection system, not living with parents or relatives, can stay in foster or residential care having little contact with their family and friends, and can leave the system without any links to caring adults who will support and guide them. Family Finding aims to seek the child’s broad extended family (think, second cousins, uncles, grandparents…) through interviews, file searches and tracing databases, and then re-engage them with their relatives.

Australia for Dolphins

We are dedicated to stopping cruelty and gaining legal protection for dolphins and other small whales. These highly sentient animals have no international legal protection, and are subjected to some of the most extreme cruelty inflicted on animals anywhere in the world. We are about to launch a campaign to end dolphin captivity in New South Wales, and are looking for help to reach as many voters there as possible to try change legislation to make it illegal.

RHoK in a Box

How do you run a hackathon for social good? There are plenty of groups around the world who are keen to find out. We think we’ve got a pretty good model here at RHoK Australia, and now we want to make it easily accessible to the rest of the world. We’re love some help to create a stand alone website that gives people templates, checklists, plans and instructions on how to run an amazing hackathon that delivers real results. It’s the best lessons we’ve learned in the last five years, made freely available for the wider hackathons community in Australia and around the world.

Changing Places

We are trying to change the current Changing Places website so that people with disabilities (and their families/carers) can provide feedback on the existing Changing Places toilets and provide data around where they would want to see more fully accessible toilets built in the future. This would then provide the Changing Places campaign with the information we need to ensure the current facilities were being used, but also the data to lobby councils, shopping centres, and other facilities to build more Changing Places, knowing that there is a demand for them and they would be used.

Pinchapoo

Pinchapoo is proudly responsible for creating a cheeky hotel toiletry ‘pinching' movement 7 years ago Using this concept, we have proudly redistributed in excess of 700,000 personal hygiene products to thousands of disadvantaged men, women and children around Australia. We would love some help updating our website and coming up with some better ways to get our message out to people.