Hacks/Hackers London: Monthly Meetup

7.00pm  

Introducing the Miso Project - building open-source tools to help create high-quality interactives

Alex Graul, interactive developer for guardian.co.uk

The Miso project is a set of open-source tools designed to make

expedite the creation of high-quality interactive storytelling and

data visualisation content, making it easier to focus on what you want

to create and the stories... [read more]

7.00pm  

Introducing the Miso Project - building open-source tools to help create high-quality interactives

Alex Graul, interactive developer for guardian.co.uk

The Miso project is a set of open-source tools designed to make

expedite the creation of high-quality interactive storytelling and

data visualisation content, making it easier to focus on what you want

to create and the stories you want to tell rather than how to make the

technology needed to power them.

Alex, who specialises in developing interactive storytelling and data visualisation content and tools will explain how The Guardian is hoping to not only create tools that make content creation simpler but for Miso to become a platform for learning and collaboration.

 

**PITCH SESSION**

(Two-minute pitches on any topic that might be of interest to the Hacks/Hackers community. Apply to take a pitch slot by emailing joanna.geary@guardian.co.uk)

PITCH 1: Richard Dixon on the New Media Forum

PITCH 2: Andrew Gray pitching his idea for a new crowdsourcing website

PITCH 3: Daniel Stanley on the Free Elections Hackathon taking place next month

 

8.00pm

Designing, building and launching an entirely new media platform from scratch

Kaveh Memari, Renew

In January, recycling bins with large countdown screens started to appear on the streets of London's Square Mile. They represented the realisation of a ten-year ambition of entrepreneur Kaveh Memari.

Kaveh's firm Renew has been awarded a 21-year contract by the City of London to tackle the problem of free newspapers littering the streets. His solution? A bombproof bin that also doubles as a new publishing platform that can be used by his team of journalists and editors, as well as those of other publications, to broadcast content live.

In his own words:

"Kaveh, highly unemployable with an inability to fully grasp the risks he was taking, thought it a good idea to start a business that depended on winning a government contract. To top this off, developed the world's most expensive bin and thought it even a better idea to give it away for free.  All investors need not rush in at once … an orderly cue will do!"

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