Re: [Hampshire] Engineering / Hacking for Humanity

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Author: Jacqui Caren
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Engineering / Hacking for Humanity
On 06/04/2012 23:01, Gorissen D. wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I work at the University of Southampton and have been a long time linux user and a lurker on this mailinglist for some time.
>
> I am exploring setting up some kind of group/network at the UoS about bringing Hackers& Engineers together to help solve humanitarian problems, in similar spirit to RHOK.org, ewb-uk.org, etc.
>
> Full explanation: http://elazungu.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/engineering-and-hacking-for-humanity-at-uos/


You may want to contact the hackspace folks as well - quite a few are very interested in "causes" :-)

An example is the some of the reading hackspace folks doing some disability projects and the napiers
who (with others) instigated tvrrug.org.uk.

Jacqui

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