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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Hallo beisammen,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>es gibt einen netten Hackathon auf der diesjährigen iKNOW. Vielleicht gibt es bei euch auch Interessierte an der tollen Initiative teilzuhaben!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>LG,<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Sebastian<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:21.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:21.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Hacking for Culture & Science - a Hackathon for increasing the visibility of cultural and scientific resources </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Join us on a mission to improve the distribution of cultural and scientific resources! ‘Hacking for Culture & Science’ is a hacking event with the goal to create new ways for disseminating cultural and scientific resources in the Web. It is organised by the EU funded project EEXCESS. EEXCESS has developed privacy preserving, federated recommender technology plus web-based visual clients in order to find new ways to recommend cultural and scientific content to interested people. It currently provides an access point to over 25 million digital objects such as resources from Wikipedia or Europeana, the European aggregator of cultural heritage resources. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Now we are seeking <b>YOU</b>, talented people interested in showing your skills, ideas and creativity on how to utilize those digital objects and improve their distribution in the World Wide Web. It is an important mission to give people the ability for getting in touch with high quality cultural and scientific resources. It is not a commercial mission, but a societal mission to disseminate our cultural heritage and scientific facts for educational purposes. So join us for getting this mission done! In case you got interested and want to get involved right now, you are invited to join our Open Source Community on Github under </span><a href="https://github.com/EEXCESS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC'>https://github.com/EEXCESS</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> or see what we have done so far by installing the EEXCESS Chrome Extension available in the Chrome Web Store.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:10.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Why should I participate?</span><o:p></o:p></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Hacking has not only a technical dimension, but also a social one. You will get in touch with interesting, like-minded people, jointly work on interesting ideas and learn about coding meanwhile. At the end of the three days, one resulting idea will be voted, announced and rewarded within the closing of the conference! </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The Hackathon is located at the famous i-KNOW conference and participants get the unique opportunity to participate in the conference for free, enjoy the keynotes and the conference’s atmosphere. And by luck AND your talent, you’ll be discovered and get an interesting job offer alongside the conference. But most important: <i>There will be plenty of food and drinks including cool evening events! </i></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:10.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>What will we do at the Hackathon?</span><o:p></o:p></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>There are several possible routes for engaging with EEXCESS on the Hackathon, in particular you can</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>develop new federated retrieval algorithms that distribute queries to web-APIs and aggregate their results<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>integrate new Web APIs that interests you<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>develop new visualisations showing the interesting patterns in cultural and scientific resources<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>work on new clients that exploit EEXCESS web-API for the environment you are currently working on<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>come up with a marketing strategy or a business model of how to attract more attention to the EECXESS project or platform <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>..or gather your own idea. Feel free!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Depending on your project idea, you should have decent programming experience in the language of your choice. For projects enhancing the system itself knowledge of Java and/or Javascript will be needed. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>However, you can also apply for the Hackathon, if you are skilled in sketching, mock upping, marketing, creating business models or designing and have basic understanding of programming.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The EEXCESS hackathon team</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:10.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>When and where will the Hackathon happen?</span><o:p></o:p></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The Hackathon takes place from 20 - 22 October at the I-KNOW 2015 Conference in the Messe Congress Graz, Graz, Austria. It is a 3 day event starting with a tutorial on EEXCESS and its technology and a brief introduction of potential routes you can go in those three days. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:10.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>How can I apply for the Hackathon?</span><o:p></o:p></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>We can just offer a limited amount of participants the chance to take part in the event. So, be quick and register via </span><a href="mailto:eexcess-hackathon@know-center.at"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC'>eexcess-hackathon@know-center.at</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>! You will be notified until the 4th of October !</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>