RHoK Switzerland: November 2011

What is Random Hacks of Kindness - RHoK

RHoK is a global community which has a mission to make the world a better place by developing innovative and open technical solutions to real and practical local and global problems. We do that by bringing together organizations and individuals that are dealing with social and humanitarian problems as their everyday jobs and from the other side experts in technology field whose daily job is to solve problems.

On December 3rd and 4th, the whole worldwide RHoK community is gathering on the locations around the world. One of these locations is HUB Zürich where Swiss RHoK stars are going to meet to hack the problems away and compete to build the best RHoK solution.

Get involved!

Because we need you to help us in solving growing number of interesting problems which humanity and our local environment is facing every day. There is no better way to use your RHoK star skills. During the RHoK weekend you'll meet different people that share same passion to make the world better and a lot of knowledge in different fields. We encourage innovation, creativity and exploration and try to have as much fun while learning from each other.

Visit our event page and register for participation through EventBrite form: http://www.rhok.org/event/zurich-switzerland

We will provide space, power, food, refreshments, lot of positive energy and challenging problems. You should bring your equipment, expertise, positive spirit and big smile to RHoK the weekend.

Are you a problem owner?

Crucial part of our success is providing solutions for the practical problems. Beside organizing technical community we want to get in contact with organizations and individuals that are working with social and humanitarian issues as their everyday job. If you or your organization needs a team to solve a hard problem, we invite you to join us for the weekend and work with the teams on defining the problems and steering solutions to the best possible effect in real world application.

Contact us and we will work with you so you can prepare your problem definition for the RHoK weekend.

RHoK Switzerland: rhokch@gmail.com

Projects we are working on.

Some of the projects we started working on during the last RHoK event in Basel

Hazard maps for field use - http://www.rhok.org/solutions/hazards-map-field-use

Mobilization of Disaster Response Teams in Adhoc Crisis Situations - http://www.rhok.org/solutions/mobilization-disaster-response-teams-adhoc-crisis-situations-0

Upload tool for person finder - http://www.rhok.org/problems/upload-tool-person-finder

Join some of the problems by contacting problem owners or check the list of the problems which our community is trying to solve on www.rhok.org/problems. We are sure you will find some real food for your brain there :)

How to RHoK?

Go through the introductory slides: http://www.slideshare.net/ivan.jovanovic/rhok-introduction-slides

Tell us more about yourself: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dDVPT0N2bFBsSUtkSGZSRElBa1hDOEE6MQ#gid=0

Where/When is RHoK Zürich going to happen

December 3rd and 4th, 2011.

The Hub Zürich

Viaduktstrasse 93-95

CH-8005 Zurich

Switzerland

Map: http://goo.gl/cJQtN

What is the event agenda

Saturday: