This isn't directly related to OSGeo, but might be of interest to members of the OSGeo community, including open source developers, designers and other contributors.
Over the past few years, while hackathons and code sprints and other civic technology events have grown in number around the world, there have been very few of them in the Middle East. That may come to change in future years, and the following event may prove to be a catalyst: Al Jazeera is going to sponsor a civic hackathon, called Canvas, focused on media and open source technology. This will be a bit different from other civic hackathons in which you may have participated. It will be an invitational hackathon - if you want to participate, you'll need to submit an application, but if your application is accepted, it will be an all-expenses-paid trip to Doha, Qatar for the event at the end of November. More info on Canvas: http://canvas.aljazeera.com/ Application: http://canvas.aljazeera.com/apply/ I think the organizers are particularly interested in a diverse set of participants from around the world, so if you know folks that might be good candidates for participation, please forward. Robert ------------------ Robert Cheetham Azavea
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