01. Neetu Jain, IBM, visits #theCUBE!. (00:15)
02. Daniela Dorneanu, Appway, visits #theCUBE!. (00:25)
03. Humanitarian Hackathon at Grace Hopper. (00:55)
04. Using Open Source to Save the World. (02:58)
05. Why the Grace Hopper Hackathon is Different. (04:22)
06. The Energy at Grace Hopper. (05:20)
07. The Collaborative Advantage. (07:05)
Track List created with http://www.vinjavideo.com.
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Could open-source coding ‘save the world’? | #GHC16
by Bev Terrell | Oct 21, 2016
Open Source Day is one of the most popular events at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. This year, a day-long open-source hackathon was devoted to participants developing open-source projects for humanitarian causes.
Neetu Jain, product manager at SoftLayer, an IBM Company, and Daniela Dorneanu, solution developer and product trainer at Appway, joined Rebecca Knight (@knightrm), co-host of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during the Grace Hopper event to discuss the mission of Open Source Day and the goal of the hackathon for humanity.
Using open source to solve humanitarian issues
Knight kicked off the conversation by asking about how the hackathon was organized.
“We … called all the organizations we knew that were passionate about open-source projects for humanitarian causes. We have KloudData participating with us; they are working on a project … which tries to identify human traffic victims using data science on chat bots. They … analyze the chatting data on the dark web, and they try to match patterns; pictures posted, communications posted. [Then they give that data] to the relevant [authorities],” said Jain.
She spoke of another project, called Women’s Peer-to-Peer Network. In some areas of the world, women don’t have a voice outside of the home and cannot communicate in standard ways, so the project uses mobile phone repeaters to create a “shadow network” for women to communicate with each other.
Collaborative effort at hackathons
There’s a perception that hackathons are very competitive, with every software developer for themselves. Knight asked if that was true at Grace Hopper.
Dorneanu said that, to the contrary, “Hackathons involve a lot of cooperation … you can’t solve it by yourself; you have to collaborate. This is a great start for many women; maybe they didn’t have the courage [to participate] in an all-male environment.”
According to Jain, “I was an open-source mentor last year, and I helped someone to learn Git … this year, she came up to me and thanked me, and she’s teaching Git at her university, and now she’s teaching Git upstairs in the hackathon.”
People start out as learners, and then they instruct what they have learned to others, Jain explained.
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Neetu Jain, IBM and Daniela Dorneanu, Appway - Grace Hopper Celebration 2016 #GHC16 #theCUBE
01. Neetu Jain, IBM, visits #theCUBE!. (00:15)
02. Daniela Dorneanu, Appway, visits #theCUBE!. (00:25)
03. Humanitarian Hackathon at Grace Hopper. (00:55)
04. Using Open Source to Save the World. (02:58)
05. Why the Grace Hopper Hackathon is Different. (04:22)
06. The Energy at Grace Hopper. (05:20)
07. The Collaborative Advantage. (07:05)
Track List created with http://www.vinjavideo.com.
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Could open-source coding ‘save the world’? | #GHC16
by Bev Terrell | Oct 21, 2016
Open Source Day is one of the most popular events at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. This year, a day-long open-source hackathon was devoted to participants developing open-source projects for humanitarian causes.
Neetu Jain, product manager at SoftLayer, an IBM Company, and Daniela Dorneanu, solution developer and product trainer at Appway, joined Rebecca Knight (@knightrm), co-host of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during the Grace Hopper event to discuss the mission of Open Source Day and the goal of the hackathon for humanity.
Using open source to solve humanitarian issues
Knight kicked off the conversation by asking about how the hackathon was organized.
“We … called all the organizations we knew that were passionate about open-source projects for humanitarian causes. We have KloudData participating with us; they are working on a project … which tries to identify human traffic victims using data science on chat bots. They … analyze the chatting data on the dark web, and they try to match patterns; pictures posted, communications posted. [Then they give that data] to the relevant [authorities],” said Jain.
She spoke of another project, called Women’s Peer-to-Peer Network. In some areas of the world, women don’t have a voice outside of the home and cannot communicate in standard ways, so the project uses mobile phone repeaters to create a “shadow network” for women to communicate with each other.
Collaborative effort at hackathons
There’s a perception that hackathons are very competitive, with every software developer for themselves. Knight asked if that was true at Grace Hopper.
Dorneanu said that, to the contrary, “Hackathons involve a lot of cooperation … you can’t solve it by yourself; you have to collaborate. This is a great start for many women; maybe they didn’t have the courage [to participate] in an all-male environment.”
According to Jain, “I was an open-source mentor last year, and I helped someone to learn Git … this year, she came up to me and thanked me, and she’s teaching Git at her university, and now she’s teaching Git upstairs in the hackathon.”
People start out as learners, and then they instruct what they have learned to others, Jain explained.
