Places are now available for a new ScraperWiki event: Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Leeds - a chance for web developers and designers to pair up with journalists and bloggers to produce projects and stories based on public data.
Community events co-ordinator for ScraperWiki, Judith Townend, said:
"The idea of these events is to bring bloggers and journalists together with computer programmers and web designers and see what happens, without too much prescriptive planning. We hope to attract 'hacks' and 'hackers' from all different types of backgrounds: people from big media organisations, as well as individual online publishers and freelancers.
"Leeds is the fifth stop on ScraperWiki's ambitious Hacks & Hackers UK tour, following Manchester on 15 October. It will be the most northerly yet, though we hope to get to Scotland at some point too.
"Somebody in the States described the Hacks & Hackers Hack Day concept as "awesome" on Twitter last week and we hope Leeds will feel the same about us! Judging from initial conversations with local developers and journalists, we're pretty confident it's going to go down well.
"We've been really fortunate to work with some great partners behind the scenes who have helped us secure us a venue and plan the day."
The free event runs at NtiLeeds at Old Broadcasting House, Woodhouse Lane, on Thursday, 28 October, from 9.30am to 7.30pm.
Sponsors for the event are Guardian Open Platform, Guardian Local and Leeds Trinity Centre for Journalism in Horsforth.
Townend added:
"We still need a little more sponsorship to make the day as successful as possible, so I'd encourage any organisations or individuals who are interested in supporting us to get in touch with me: judith@scraperwiki.com or via @scraperwiki on Twitter."
You can discuss the event on Twitter by following the hashtag #hhhLeeds.
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