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Re:Announcing the 12 challenge winners from Hack4good on Saturday September 20, 2014 @01:23PM (#8345000)
Want to add - all the teams did a remarkable job. There really are no winners or losers - any one of these apps can have significant impact on our planet. We hope many of them do.
Re:World’s Leading NGOs Share How We Should Hack Climate Change on Thursday September 11, 2014 @05:43PM (#8305326)
I really enjoyed the talks - thanks Dan for setting them all up and running them!
Re:Inside Y Combinator’s first hack-a-thon on Monday August 04, 2014 @04:12AM (#8130773)
looks fantastic. every time we run our hack4good events i'm amazed by both what gets done in 48 hours and what relationships get built that last a lifetime. hack climate change next with us here: http://bit.ly/hack4good06
Re:The Great Code Club on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @04:40PM (#7139953)
well this just popped across my desk... nice. pretty similar to our Geeklist hackathon/projects/ideas app rolling out of our hackathon app at (http://geekli.st/hackathon) only it is all free. we don't take any cut. we provide all the infrastructure. Apps that get built that gain traction our Geeklist Labs will help get funded - if they want. No contracts, no fees for the app. 100% open source collaboration for ideas and projects. Spurring innovation globally at Geeklist. disclosure: I founded Geeklist. - r - oh and hack4good (http://hack4good.geekli.st)
Uber driver apparently pulled them out safely. It's a shame some countries take change so violently. I love Paris and France, I also use Uber there... this is terrible. SO glad Kat and Renaud made it home safely afterwards.
Re:How to go from Dev to PM on Thursday December 05, 2013 @10:30PM (#6859214)
great point avilay. thank you for helping clarify the difference between the two PM's. product vs project. i think this is an important differentiation and one which, when clarified, could help more developers excel in their careers without losing their coding edge.
Re:How to go from Dev to PM on Thursday December 05, 2013 @10:27PM (#6859197)
I see many points about not wanting to manage being mentioned, but if you read into it more you'll find Gayle is suggesting this is about developers who want to drive product. Product Management is much more than just management roles and I know many coders who do product management while maintaining their coding space. It's not for everyone, but Product Management is not project management.
Congrats team Domains4good! So proud you gave birth to it at the Geeklist #hack4good 0.2 in Sam Francisco this weekend! ^5 - the Geeklist team
Re:Hack4good to make the world a better place on Monday August 19, 2013 @07:35AM (#6236617)
here's a link to what was created in the past hack4good http://bit.ly/16DiSGP
Re:Hack4good to make the world a better place on Monday August 19, 2013 @05:14AM (#6236281)
The goal is to make the world better through hacking together with people from around the world. The guidelines of what 'tools' are open as we don't want to limit solutions to problems. The one guideline that is strict is that this is not a "build a business" hackathon. While that could be an outcome, judging will be based on solving real world problems for social good. (No, that means hacking a beer pong game to make parties better does not count) - Thanks so much for commenting!

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