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Hi!

There will be a great literary/publishing/library hackathon. Any
candidates for a PeerLibrary team?


Mitar

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jennifer 8. Lee
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> <mailto: >>
> Date: Sat, May 16, 2015 at 1:48 PM
> Subject: CODEX Hackathon
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> We're throwing the first CODEX <http://codexhackathon.com/>, a
> literary/publishing/library hackathon, in San Francisco during the American
> Library Association conference on the weekend of June 26-28, 2015 <>. It's
> a gathering of people who want to imagine the future of books and reading!
> Programmers, designers, writers, librarians, publishers, readers. All are
> coming.
>
> codexhackathon.com <http://codexhackathon.com/>
>
> The theme/challenge will be "connecting." So connecting around books,
> connecting around reading, connecting readers and authors, connecting
> libraries with books. So imagine dating app for readers, Groupon for books,
> Tinder for book discovery, new APIs. etc.
>
> Partners and Sponsors include New York Public Library <http://nypl.org/>,
> Knight Foundation <http://knightfoundation.org/>, Macmillan, Dropbox
> <http://dropbox.com/>, HarperCollins, Stanford d.school
> <http://dschool.stanford.edu/>, Mailchimp <http://mailchimp.com/>, Github
> <http://github.com/>, the Digital Public Library of America
> <http://dp.la/>, Publishers Weekly <http://publishersweekly.com/>, Project
> Gitenberg, Recovering the Classics <http://recoveringtheclassics.com/>,
> Harvard Book Store <http://harvard.com/> and more!
>
> Opening reception and pop-up gallery Friday. June 26, at Github.
>
> Come! We have travel stipends, thanks to the sponsors, if you are outside
> SF.. The food will be great. And lots of awesome schwag (bestselling print
> books, free Dropbox space, signed xkcd books)
>
> Register Here
> (This is how we contact folks — and give out travel stipends).
> https://plympton.submittable.com/submit/42415
> <https://plympton.submittable.com/submit/42415>
>
> Add Ideas Here
> https://plympton.hackpad.com/CODEX-Hackathon-Project-Ideas-0x62TRo1QDg
> <https://plympton.hackpad.com/CODEX-Hackathon-Project-Ideas-0x62TRo1QDg>
>
> Add Any Tools/Resources Here
> https://plympton.hackpad.com/CODEX-Tools-APIs-Data-Resources-161yDiSzeA7
> <https://plympton.hackpad.com/CODEX-Tools-APIs-Data-Resources-161yDiSzeA7>
>
> Jenny
> ~~~
> Jennifer 8. Lee
> Co-founder, Plympton
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> c: 917.586.0588 <tel:917.586.0588>
> t: @jenny8lee <http://twitter.com/jenny8lee>

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