Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Chicken Strip

If you have a funny idea, jokes or funny story about the social location based media like Foursquare.com, Gowalla.com, koprol.com, urbanesia.com, twitter.com (with location), ngubek.com, scvngr.com etc. You can send your funny idea to chikencontest at gmail dot com.

This time purely not just comic strip, just a not of blogging about the random activity of Hack of Kindness II that last week open.

RHOK is an event hackathon that begin by several peoples idea of world bank, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and NASA. A number programmers meet together along weekend together hacking and formulate the IT for several world problems, especially about nature disaster.

The second event is conduct in the separate world at the same time and in Indonesia the host use Australian Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction (AIFDR). Recorded about 30 participants involved on 6 projects, involved several programmer basic (PHP, Python, .net, Ruby, Jaya etc.) the amazing are can be collaborate with many topics. The problem many of local activist don’t familiar with opensource system, they can’t understand and modified of the main project Risk in a Box guided by Dr. Ole Nielsen. Beside the front end using Ruby on Rails, this software properties are “pre-disaster”: calculation and modeling impact to the disaster in certain population area.


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