Random Hacks of Kindness
Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) was a global community of technologists dedicated to solving problems for charities, non-profits and social enterprises by organising recurring hackathons.An innovation incubator in the area of sustainable development, SecondMuse[11] acts as "operational lead" for Random Hacks of Kindness,[3] coordinating global volunteer efforts, facilitating collaborative partnerships, and managing communications and branding.[13][14][15][16] FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate gave the keynote[17] and made a call to action to the developers to apply their creativity to the challenges and featured hacks.Featured projects were[19] Tweak the Tweet was used during the Haiti earthquake response in January 2010[21] The second RHoK event was held at the Microsoft Chevy Chase offices in Washington DC on June 4–6, 2010.[27] While the Washington, DC RHoK was the "main stage", several other locations hosted satellite events at the same time,[22] including Oxford England, Jakarta Indonesia, Sydney Australia, Nairobi Kenya, São Paulo Brazil, and Santiago Chile.fd The "winning" hack at the Washington DC event was a new interface on CHASM (Combined Hydrology and Stability Model),[28][29] a system to make landslide predictions.