#Flashhacks in Berlin - June 2015

(The event will be held in English and German, we will switch to make everyone comfortable / Bei dem Treffen werden wir sowohl deutsch als auch englisch sprechen, damit jeder sich zurecht findet - egal in welcher Sprache)

Join us for the June #FlashHacks: Map the Banks.

Drop in with your laptop, charger and enthusiasm to join us for an afternoon of liberating datasets from the clutches of closed data. If you can code and have never written a bot - this is an excellent opportunity to learn! Some experience with programming (Python or Ruby) would be good though.

We'll have drinks available for you to enjoy. Map the Banks is a campaign by OpenCorporates & partners to liberate all financial licenses so we can map what the global financial industry looks like. Find out more here: mapthebanks.com

If you want to take a look at the type of missions that we are going to tackle take a look at http://missions.opencorporates.com/campaigns/8 We will come together, sit down in groups and each group will pick a task to work on. The bot will download and convert the data and will then send it to opencorporates to set it free as a dataset. Bots will either be written in Ruby or Python and we are open to help you with learning the libraries needed to scrape the data.

See you there. If you can't come this time around, join us for the next one.