Hacky Hour (w/ Crisis Mapping for Nepal)
Where & When
Advanced Manufacturing and Design Centre - Room 206. Wednesday 24th June from 2-3:30pm.
General coding and project work
There is no tutorial or formal discussion scheduled for this session. Feel free to use this time to catch up on previous SHW sessions, work on your own projects, or brush up your coding skills. We recommend Codecademy, Khan Academy and Coursera to begin with. Examples of projects created by SHW participants can be found here. We generally work to music… (BBC 6 Music)
Crising Mapping in Nepal
For those who want to start contributing to a project, I’ll be working on the Crisis Mapping for Nepal project. There is a tutorial to teach you how you can contribute and you don’t need a great deal of coding skills to do so. The project has received quite a lot of attention and I think really is actually helping the aid groups on the ground.
- National Geographic artice: How ‘Crisis Mapping’ Is Shaping Disaster Relief in Nepal
- Atlantic article: Another Way to Help Humanitarian Efforts in Nepal: Start Mapping
- From wired.com: The Open Source Maps That Make Rescues in Nepal Possible
- From the BBC: How ‘crisis mapping’ is helping relief efforts in Nepal
Attended by
- Arna Karick, SHW organiser & e-Research Consultant & astro by trade (Swinburne Research)