RiverHack: Connecting People-Land-Water for Healthier Rivers

Are you a lover of the outdoors, of walking by the river, wild swimming, angling, canoeing?

Are you passionate about protecting the health of our rivers and of our families?

Do you have a background in software development, data manipulation, STEM, graphic design or as an invested user of our waterways?

Do you believe we can develop our community into one that will take the necessary steps to make a healthy environment happen?

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Announcing RiverHack 1.0, a hackathon bringing together citizens and waterway user communities with water scientists, environmental charities, the Environment Agency, local government and a mass of programmers, artists and data scientists, to together hear what the challenges to river health are, and to see what we can do about them.

If the above speaks to you, please join us at Oxhack from Friday 14th for this hackathon celebrating our great British waterways, where we will seek to construct prediction and visualization tools to solve challenges, and to help support waterways health, now and for the next generation.

To read more about this event, to explore the challenges we're trying to solve and to see some of the data types that will be available, go to our event homepage here:

https://hackpad.com/RiverHack-connecting-people-land-water-for-healthier-rivers-free-1.5-day-event-OgDqI5ySMVI (https://hackpad.com/RiverHack-connecting-people-land-water-for-healthier-rivers-free-1.5-day-event-OgDqI5ySMVI#:h=The-Challenges)

​Then please come back to this page and RSVP to let us know you're coming!

The event is free to attend (and so is the pizza!), but places are limited. <3

Hope to see you there!

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This event, the first of several, brought to you with love by:

Oxford Hackspace
The Centre For Ecology and Hydrology (CEH)
Agile Ox
Wild Oxfordshire
Earthwatch
Downstreams.net