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hack4japan uk

Hack 4 Japan UK Ideathon & Hackathon

Summary

hack4japan is a series of ideathon and hackathon events for Japan Tsunami relief and recovery effort. So far several meetings, ideathons and hackathons were held in March both online in English/Japanese and offline (Kyoto, Okayama, Tokushima, Fukuoka and Fukushima) in Japanese. The detail of the first event is here.

The next meeting will be held in Sendai city (Miyagi), Wakamatsu city (Fukushima),Tokyo in Japanese during 21st and 22nd May, and we will be also hosting a satellite event in London (UK) in English on 22nd May.

The format

You could either work alone or with other participants. If you already have existing projects, please feel free to use this space to find contributors or exchange information with other participants.

You can attend either or both event.

Meeting detail

Hack Ideas

  • There are lots of data related to earthquake, tsunami, and radiation. Can you make better visualisation or mash them up to create anything new?
  • What happened in Japan could potentially happen in your area (reference: list of nuclear power plant around the world http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/mar/18/nuclear-reactors-power-stations-world-list-map). Can you research how your area could cope with if something like Japan tsunami and power plant problem happens around your area?
  • Investigate open source disaster response related tools and see if it fits to solve problems in Japan.
  • Some of these open source disaster response related tools communities are struggling to maintain the quality of code. Can you contribute your software craftsmanship spirits to add test coverage or provide better documentation?

Available services, open source projects and data sets

sinsai.info is an incident mapping service deployed 4 hrs after the earthquake. It currently has over 10,000 incident reports and it had over 1 million page view so far. It uses Usahidi crisis mapping tool which was deployed in Haiti, Libya and other crises. @makoto_inoue will give you brief introduction of how it is used in Japan.

Sahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system built with Python. Its localisation to Japan deployment (at http://www.sahana.jp ) is currently under active development. @franboon from Sahana foundation will be joining us for this hackathon.

Others

Free services/hosting for hack4japan event

[NOTE: They were offered for free during March hackathon. I have not confirmed whether they still offer for free]

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