… Sahana - volunteer-built coordination tool Open Street Map - volunteer-built maps Mapaction - builds maps from inside disaster zones Info4Disasters - collects information before disasters Random Hacks of Kindness (RHOK) - runs two software-building hackathons a year Where else can I get information? If you want to know more about crisismapping, these places will help too: The Crisismappers Network runs crisismapping conferences (ICCM) and collects information about crisismapping on i …

Everyone has ideas. Not everyone can make them happen. Once a month we get together for a weekend to take a few ideas, chosen semi-democratically, and make them real. It's a hackathon, a community, a bunch of fun.   How it works: Once a month we send out an email for projects.  In order to submit your project for a barn raising you must have either:-- taken part (constructively) in a previous barn raising-- sponsor beer, pizza and general goodness for that barn raising The first Friday night of …

Get together with fellow hackers, tech Meetups from across NYC, and the best APIs around for the first ever tournament-style hackathon at Meetup HQ! Every programming language and platform has its strengths and weaknesses, its devoted fans and its bitter detractors. To celebrate the techno-diversity that makes software programming such a fascinating sport, we're hosting a series of hackathons at Meetup HQ... JavaScript in June PHP in July Python and Ruby in August FINAL BATTLE OF THE BRACES in S …