A License to RHoK
Want to change the world? Then get a license to RHoK! Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global initiative to create practical open source solutions to humanity's toughest challenges. Organized by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, HP, NASA and the World Bank, RhoK brings together thousands of the best and brightest developers from around the world - like YOU - to participate in fast–paced and competitive marathon coding events resulting in real applications that are making an impact on humanity. The RHoK community has grown rapidly over the past 2 years, with 3000 participants from 43 cities who have worked on 214 distinct solutions. This talk will bring together "RHoKstars" to provide an overview of the initiative, discuss some of the solutions developed, describe how the SxSW community can contribute to the effort and most importantly, brainstorm about what is next.
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A License to RHoK
- 2. #RHoK @randomhacks Get your very own copy of this presentation: http://goo.gl/PcT8k
- 3. Introductions Todd Khozien Nicholas Skytland @toddicus @skytland SecondMuse NASA Christiaan Adams Elizabeth Sabet Patrick Svenburg @spinmap @esabet @svenburg Google SecondMuse Micrsoft
- 4. RHoK-stars
- 5. RHoK-stars
- 6. RHoK-ing
- 7. RHoK-ing
- 8. RHoK-ing out
- 10. A community of innovation developing practical open solutions for social good
- 11. How Does it Work? Subject matter experts Volunteers work on Together, they move define the problems open technology those solutions to solutions implementation and impact
- 16. History of RHoK?
- 17. Next Up: The RHoK Journey Global Hackathon Impact June 2-3, 2012 Dec 3-4, 2011 5th Hackathon 28 Cities June 4-5, 2011 4th Hackathon 19 Cities December 2010 3rd Hackathon 22 Cities June 2010 2nd Hackathon 7 Cities December 2009 1st Hackathon Silicon Valley, CA June 2009 @ CrisisCamp Time
- 21. Who is RHoK?
- 22. 4000+ people
- 23. 45+ cities
- 24. 180+ partners Core Partners Regional Partner Operational Lead
- 25. Why RHoK?
- 30. A good solution starts with a good problem
- 33. Success Stories
- 34. sheltr.org
- 35. Partnerships with The Coalition Against Hunger, Project H.O.M.E., and the Philadelphia Office of Supportive Housing Interest from many cities across the U.S. Expanded hack to include food sources Press coverage NPR Interview Awards for best civic hack Homeless service providers reaching out
- 36. CHASM (Combined Stability and Hydrology Model) Created at RHoK #1 Chasm is an integrated slope hydrology/slope stability software package that aids the assessment of slope stability conditions Academic researcher came to RHoK with the concept and base code without interface Proactively used and deployed in Latin America And the Caribbean
- 38. Assessing (and aggregating) beehive health beepods.com
- 39. The Hackathon Brainstorm. Process Define. Refine. Hack. Support and sustain for impact.
- 40. A License to RHoK
- 45. Introductions Todd Khozien Nicholas Skytland @toddicus @skytland SecondMuse NASA Christiaan Adams Elizabeth Sabet Patrick Svenburg @spinmap @esabet @svenburg Google SecondMuse Micrsoft
- 46. rhok.org @randomhacks #RHoK Thoughts? Questions? Discuss!