London Hurricane Hackathon
Date - Sunday 4th November, 2012
Time - 13:00 to 23:00
Venue - Google Campus - lower ground floor Cafe
4-5 Bonhill Street
London EC2A 4BX
This is about equidistant between Moorgate and Old Street Tube stations
Directions to Google Campus on Google Maps
Registration
This will be a free event, but you will need to register your intention to attend, so that we can keep within the capacity limits of the venue.
https://LondonHurricaneHackathon.eventbrite.co.uk
London Hurricane Hackathon contact details:
Sam from London Hackspace will be organising sessions involving:
- converting LinkSys WRT Wireless Routers into mesh networks etc.,
- Crisis mapping stuff learned or adapted from the Sukey.io project
- Emergency power supply sharing
- Other project suggestions are welcome
email: samuelcarlisle@gmail.com
pgp: 0x54828CAA
twitter: @samthetechie
Apart from the obvious unselfish reasons for helping our friends in the USA at their time of need, it is not inconcievable that we may need their help and some of this technology, if / when there is a flooding disaster in London, which is not handled by the Thames Barrier.
International Hurricane Hackers contacts:
Website: http://www.hurricanehackers.com - points to Google Docs resource pages
twitter: @hurricanehackrs
email list: hurricanehackers@mit.edu
Internet Relay Chat: http://irc.lc/freenode/hurricanehackers