A weekend-friendly rundown of the many projects from the last two weeks that have absolutely nothing to do with elections.

How the Mother Jones nerd desk whipped up a multi-layered map of verified incidents of voter suppression for the 2012 US elections.

At MozFest today in London, OpenNews led a 70-person session on election-related news apps and tools.

Mike Bostock explains how he and Shan Carter created the 512 Paths interactive feature, from early sketches to complete implementation.

This weekend is the Mozilla Festival in London. It’s one of many events over the next month.

Simon Rogers on the rapid development of their verified Sandy events map and dataset.

As superstorm Sandy approached the East Coast of the US, newsdev teams ranging from large to tiny created maps, charts, trackers, and tables about the storm’s path, expected effects, and civic responses.

Upcoming events for news developers online and in Europe, Latin America, and Malaysia.

How the WNYC data team turned California’s live elections data into an embeddable map based on a

The week in journalism code: new projects, updates, releases, APIs, and more.

From paper and PDF records to live text to database to interactive tool, step by step.

Upcoming events for news developers in London, Washington, DC, New York, Kuala Lumpur, and eight cities throughout South and Central America.

How the Washington Post’s development team cleaned the data and built an app to support a 15-month investigation into DC homicide cases.

The week in journalism code: new projects, updates, releases, APIs, and more.

Opened Captions makes it easy to create web applications and visualizations that react the second words are spoken on live television.

ProPublica’s interactive data-analysis project gets an API, and Al Shaw answers our development questions about the making of Free the Files.

Jessica Lord breaks down the context and process behind sheetsee.js, a JavaScript mashup developed during her Code for America fellowship.

An interview with Sisi Wei, co-founder of Code with me, an introductory two-day programming workshop for journalists.

As ONA12 gets going in San Francisco, we’re hitting the last stretch with Source, the OpenNews community and index for news development. We even have a launch date, and it’s…really soon.

Events, newly released projects, blog posts, and other announcements.