Articles tagged: austin

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   When Bots Get Together: Part 2

   By Ryan Pitts

   Posted on April 28, 2016

   Here’s the second half of our report-back from Austin’s code convening, introducing five more bot-centered open source projects from our participants.

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   When Bots Get Together: Part 1

   By Ryan Pitts

   Posted on April 27, 2016

   Code convenings have been regular events on the OpenNews calendar for a little more than two years now, each of them bringing a small group of designers and developers together to work on projects that fit a particular theme. Given a chance to step away from normal routines and daily deadlines, participants spend a couple days writing code and documentation before releasing fresh open-source projects and updates into the journalism community. The Austin event earlier this month definitely was our largest so far, with nine projects. It was a fantastic mix of people, with developers and designers from all sizes of news organizations, and fields like education, finance, and civic tech. Here’s what everyone is working on.