Pledge “VegHack”
"I will organise a "Hackday for the Animals" in London but only if 30 vegetarian and vegan web developers will make it a priority to come."
— Bill Verdant, vegan new media person
Deadline to sign up by: 31st August 2010
14 people signed up, 16 more were needed
Country: United Kingdom
Place: London (view map)
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Hackdays bring people together for a day of building things. You start by learning more about relevant data and tools, and then form into groups of people who are interested in building the same things. It's surprising to see what you can build together in a day.
Often, the cobbled-together prototype proves a fantastic idea you can build into a functional website later. By bringing together people with a common interest, hackdays let you throw ideas around, use stuff you might not have thought of, and solve problems that had been troubling you for ages.
"VegHack" would be about helping people to live without hurting animals. We might use events data from vegan groups, data.gov.uk information about the use and abuse of other animals, or the databases set up by campaigning groups like VPSG or HorseDeathWatch.com.
This could be really useful networking event to encourage organisations to release and combine information in new and interesting ways.
("Hack" in this context means building things quickly. It is not used in the "unauthorised access" sense of the word. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_Day)
- contribute $25 per month to DVGRR
- Be Keen on Clean
- give a percentage or more of the Canton Free TV project of $4000
- pledge 100USD
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Current signatories (
= they've done it)
Bill Verdant, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- Cameron Green
- Kathleen Bright
- Linda Lambert
- Jan
- Stephen Fenwick-Paul
- Nick Piper
- Rossen
- Rob Stead
- Simon
- Rob Dunne
- Magdalena
- Chris Seal
- sylvie francis
- 1 person who did not want to give their name
Comments on this pledge
* a Java calculator of how many animals someone might save from life on the factory farm by going vegan
* levels of animal protection legislation by country, mapped
* events calendars from different organisations displayed side by side
Please add ideas in comments.
http://www.vantra.co.uk/
This will be a great chance to meet other people running vegan websites and see how we could help each other. Please tell anyone who might be interested (not least because I've used my one email to signers!)