This weekend, December 2-4, thousands of developers, hackers and coders will be joining forces in 32 cities around the globe to participate in Random Hacks of Kindness 4.   This is the third RHoK event we’ve partnered up with Geeks without Bounds to sponsor and help organize events in San Francisco, Portland and Milwaukee.

The what: Random Hacks of Kindness is a volunteer technology community committed to making the world a better place through disaster response. They accomplish this by gathering twice yearly for a marathon hacking session to problem-solve issues of disaster response implementation, communication, and resource sharing. RHoK has been touted by FEMA as a group of dedicated volunteers who “develop software solutions for challenges facing humanity.”

The why: RHoK focuses on capacity building: people, organizations, and the technology they use to help victims during a disaster. Previous projects have included optimizing the distribution and preservation of food, SMS social services directories, air and water quality monitoring, and various communication applications for locating the hardest-hit areas.

The where and when: RHoK will be held in the following locations, with guidance from the mainstage locations, on December 3-4, 2011. An overview of the locations can be found here.

GWOB Venues Global Satellite Locations
Milwaukee, WI Portland, OR San Francisco, CA Atlanta, GA, USA Austin, TX, U.S.A. Bangalore, India Banjul, The Gambia Belgium Berlin, Germany Boston, MA, U.S.A. Buenos Aires, Argentina Lima, Perú London, United Kingdom Manchester, NH, U.S.A. Mexico City, México Montevideo, Uruguay Montréal, Canada New York, NY U.S.A. Oxford, United Kingdom Paris, France Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. Porto Alegre, Brasil Princeton, NJ, U.S.A. Rio de Janiero, Brasil Rosario, Argentina Santiago, Chile São Paulo, Brasil Tel Aviv, Israel Toronto, Canada Trento, Italy Warsaw, Poland Zurich, Switzerland

The who: No, not the band. You. Get involved. Register at the individual location sites listed above, and get hacking to save the world.

Not close to a RHoK site? Host your own. Random Hacks of Kindness has put together a guide for first-time hackathon planning. Check it out here.

 

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