Random Hacks of Kindness - Info Night

Are you thinking of coming along to this year's RHoK Sydney summer hackathon, or do you just want to find out what RHoK is all about? This is a chance to find out who we are, what we do and how we can all do our little bit to hack for humanity. We'll also be introducing our new changemakers for the upcoming summer hackathon.

And we'll be explaining how the RHoK community needs a wide variety of skillsets - from coding to design, to BA work and marketing and social media. The event lasts for an hour, followed by drinks, food and a chance to hang out and meet fellow technologists. If you're an established member of the community and want to re-connect, or a new person looking to find out what we are all about, this is the ideal night to join us.

OUR NEW CHANGEMAKERS

1. Egg Donation Australia (EDA)
   a community run not-for-profit IVF information and support site that currently supports 2500 donors and intended members on their fertility journeys. Our vision is to provide anyone going through the difficult journey of conception (approximately 35000 in Australia and NZ annually) with "the gift of hope". Our challenge is to build a web based resource for people to share their stories, support each other through the journey for both donors and intended parents.

2. LGBT app
   We live in a world that is changing fast. Far too often many people miss out because the lack of resources particularly those from a lower socio-economic. My project is about embracing equity and equality. Making sure that everyone has a fair go and has the same level of support from everyone else. The idea is to increase community engagement with young people. Particularly those from LGBT, youth homelessness and youth mental health barriers.

3. Watch Me Grow

4. Thirty Three Cooks
   Thirty Three Cooks is a kitchen incubator for the Illawarra, a sort of “air bnb” for kitchens and foodpreneurs. What does that mean? We’ll help create jobs and new enterprise in a region with the one of highest unemployment rates and no resources to start small food business.The challenge: We must describe our services, offer a member log in for live updates and user stories, and have an online scheduling system to book kitchens which will keep staffing cost low.

5. Responsible Runners
   We’re targeting the 1 billion single-use takeaway coffee cups and lids wasted in Australia every single year, by working with cafes to offer discounts to customers who bring their own reusable cups. Our objective is to redesign our website to increase engagement with responsible cafe owners (and the customers that support them!) by incorporating relevant sustainability-related educational materials, campaigns and competitions, which will build on early success with cups and lids and expand to other forms of disposable waste, energy, and even banking. Rolling this out with a new and improved method of engaging customers in cafes, we also aim to integrate functionality that will allow responsible cafes to submit data, monitor, and display their sustainability successes over time, in order to encourage ongoing engagement with the program.