{"id":930,"date":"2009-10-30T15:22:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T19:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=930"},"modified":"2009-10-30T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T19:28:00","slug":"random-hacks-of-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2009\/10\/random-hacks-of-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Hacks of Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Random Hacks of Kindness\" href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/2009\/10\/random-hacks-of-kindness-disas.html\" target=\"_blank\">Random Hacks of Kindness<\/a> is a codejam sponsored by the World Bank, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!, aimed at building useful software for important social\/humanitarian causes. The upcoming event in the Bay Area in November is focussed on software for disaster relief.<\/p>\n<p>However, they&#8217;re also <a title=\"Initial survey (but the deadline has passed!)\" href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/viewform?formkey=dG9FcmNWU1pKaTh0eGN2N25OTDJBV0E6MQ\" target=\"_blank\">proposing<\/a> to run a 4-day codejam at the <a title=\"COP15 website\" href=\"http:\/\/en.cop15.dk\/\" target=\"_blank\">COP15 meeting<\/a> in Copenhagen in December, aimed at building useful software for tackling climate change. I&#8217;ve submitted a few ideas of my own, plus our <a title=\"List of areas for climate change software development efforts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=97\" target=\"_blank\">categorization<\/a> of software challenges. Here&#8217;s some of my suggestions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make the <a title=\"IPCC website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\">IPCC website <\/a>more accessible. E.g. provide a visual index of the figures and charts in the reports; develop &#8220;guided tours&#8221; through the material for different kinds of users, based on their various interests; provide pointers into key sections that respond to common misunderstandings<\/li>\n<li>Provide simple dynamic visualizations of the key physical processes. Along the lines of the <a href=\"http:\/\/scripts.mit.edu\/%7Ejsterman\/climate\/master\/\" target=\"_blank\">tutorial developed by John Sterman<\/a>, but perhaps with less text and more freedom to play with the model.<\/li>\n<li>Provide a simpler, web-based interface to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astr.ucl.ac.be\/users\/matthews\/jcm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Java Climate model<\/a>, that allows policymakers to quickly see the effects of different policy options.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random Hacks of Kindness is a codejam sponsored by the World Bank, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!, aimed at building useful software for important social\/humanitarian causes. The upcoming event in the Bay Area in November is focussed on software for disaster relief. However, they&#8217;re also proposing to run a 4-day codejam at the COP15 meeting in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}