Grenfell Tower Support Hackathon

This weekend, we are uniting non-techies and techies alike, to show our support to those affected by the Grenfell Tower disaster. All skill-sets welcome! The aim of the hackathon is to rapidly scope and prototype solutions to help with the ongoing response and assistance.

While more than a week has now passed since the tragedy at Grenfell Tower, the need for support to those affected remains critical. Voluntary organisations, charities, local businesses and public bodies are offering a wide variety of types of support. However, there is a real challenge in coordinating these resources, to ensure those who desperately need support are kept informed about the ongoing help available, and how to access it. There is a daily flood of information from various websites and social media channels, making it difficult to source relevant information about the relief available. There is a pressing need to curate information relating to the available services in the local area and further afield and to make it more accessible to those in need.

We are hoping to assemble as many community spirited folks as possible to get involved and show their support. If you would like to be a part of this, please sign up via this page.

No programming skills are necessary; everyone can make a valuable contribution. In particular, we need people who can research and collate information on the support on offer, to help us finalise a mobile app we are aiming to deploy imminently.

We have already begun brainstorming other ideas, and would love to get some more solutions built during the weekend based on yours too.

There’s plenty of opportunity for some machine learning, text processing and data mining to cluster, categorise and curate important information from social media and make it more easily found by those who need it.

We hope to see you there!

Key Information:-

Dates: 24 & 25 June 2017

Venue: Curated House, 90 Mitchell Street, Glasgow, G1 3PW (close to Central Station)

Timings:

Saturday, 24 June: 10am to 9pm (approx.)

Sunday, 25 June: 10am to 6pm (approx.)

What to bring: laptop & good ideas!

A shout-out to our event partner, AddJam, and to Peloton Communications for providing us with their spectacular venue at such short notice.