Lonely Planet Labs

LP Hack Day and GovHack Join forces

Matthew CashmoreLonely Planet author

GovHack and Lonely Planet have got together to make the Hack Day on the 7th & 8th November even better.

The Hack Day will run out of Lonely Planet’s HQ in Footscray, and GovHack will be bringing along all of it’s data, it’s knowledge, and will be running a series of workshops and classes on how to get into that data.

We’ll be announcing the schedule of talks soon, but at the moment it’s a combination of Lonely Planet’s APIs, Open Social, Gov data and some pure inspiration – if you’ve got a burning desire to talk about something that rocks, drop us a note and we’ll add you to the list…. We’ll also be keeping a few sessions free in a unconference style.

Saturday morning will be made up of talks, both inspiring and educational - but not necessarily at the same time. Then at 2pm we’ll start the 24 hour hack before presenting back to everyone on the Sunday afternoon - the big prize from Lonely Planet? Well you’ll have to come to find out but it takes 20 boxes to remove it all and you’ll not be able to carry it with you when you leave….

More news about something funky happening on Saturday night later this week… We’ll also be letting you know about the shuttle bus we’ll run from the CBD over to footscray on the mornings of the event.

So, before the places run out (there’s less than 15 left) – register now for the Melbourne Hack Day.

(in other news Lonely Planet are sending a team to the Canberra Hack Day this weekend (30th & 31st) - see you there)