We’re bringing back Hack4OpenGLAM again in 2021!
Hack4OpenGLAM co-creation event takes place 20–24 September during the CC Global Summit.
The event is an opportunity for GLAM professionals, community archivists, creators, developers, platforms, tool creators and content communities with any level of experience to learn, work, and create with one another for the benefit of Open Access to cultural heritage.
Knowledge Equity
This year we are focusing on knowledge equity – Highlighting knowledge of individuals, communities, and cultures who have been left out of the spotlight of history, decolonizing cultural historical collections, and acknowledging responsible ways of sharing information online openly.
Languages!
You can read this page in dozens of languages in the Hack4OpenGLAM Wikimedia page, and join translating it to your own language!
How to join
Register for Hack4OpenGLAM with your project, collection, tool, platform, idea, challenge or just yourself. Joining Hack4OpenGLAM is open until and during CC Summit. Remember to also register for the CC Global Summit to get access to the full program.
The new Dashboard is open!
All participants and projects are introduced on the Dashboard. It is a matchmaking place for the participants and a showcase of open content and projects. The dashboard shows the progression of the projects in real-time and preserves the results after the event.
Collaboration has started on the community platform and continues throughout the event. Participating projects get dedicated channels where they can start working together and growing communities around their projects!
Thursday meetups
Project ideas are presented and discussed every Thursday in a meetup at 1pm UTC.
Going live during the Summit 20–24 September
The first day of the hackathon is dedicated to workshops, discussions, and project pitches that take place on the conference platform. After three days of independent hacking, the crowd will again convene for the live Final Gala.
What can I work on?
Workshops
The hackathon is for doing and learning together. The first day (20 September 2021) is dedicated to a live stream that features workshops, discussions, and project pitches. If you wish to run a workshop, register your idea and start discussing it on the community platform. This way, the workshop program can be collaboratively prepared.
Projects
A project can be as sketchy as an idea or a topic, or as detailed as an already existing project. It can be a call-to-action around a task or a challenge to solve a problem. The projects are not expected to be technical, but they can be. Newcomers and experts are equally welcome. We encourage all participants to engage in the discussions around the projects as early as possible.
GLAMs and cultural heritage collections
Showcase your open collections for the participants and the world. But most importantly, join the activities yourself to learn and co-create with open cultural heritage.
Tools, technologies and platforms
Bring the tool or service you have developed, promote the use of your open platform or volunteer to offer your skills to help collaborative work. You can prepare small how-to-workshops, for example.
Read the newsletters
Meet the facilitators
The facilitators will lead us through this event. They will work with the participants on the community platform connecting likeminded projects and creators. They will host the live events, and coordinate the volunteers together with the existing team.
Women and tech, Accessibility, Global culture, South Asia
Bhuvana Meenakshi Koteeswaran
My works are usually around Socio-Technology research • Gender and technology, Accessibility, Multidimensional space, Communities • Wikimedian and Mozillian.
Indigenous languages, Wikibase, Sub-Saharan Africa
Sadik Shahadu
MozFest Wrangler/Ambassador • Co-founder of the Global Open Initiative/Dagbani Wikimedians UG • Indigenous Communities Ambassador at Art+Feminism.
GLAM networks, Climate, Latin America
Evelin “Scann” Heidel
Passionate about digital heritage & open licensing • Previously @ OpenGLAM • Now exploring all things climate & digital
Here come the ambassadors
The ambassadors will reach out to their regional and expert networks and find GLAMs, creators, and initiatives to join working with us on topics around knowledge equity and Open Access to cultural heritage. You can help them out in spreading the word and building the network of people and initiatives.
Middle East and North Africa, Arabic
Walaa Abdel Manaem
Spanish lecturer & researcher • Arabic editor & admin • Wikipedian judge & coordinator • Founder of Wikipedian Light of Knowledge (WLK)
Developer networks
Rashad Al-Khmisy
Scholar on Global Technology and Development at ASU • Founder & lead organizer of Google Developers Group Sana’a (GDG Sana’a) • Google Ambassador (Alumni) • Wikipedian & Arabic editor
World heritage, French
Nassima Chahboun
Architect and Wikimedian from Morocco • Chair and co-founder of Wiki World Heritage User Group.
Autonomous archives, Southeast Asia
Hilman Fathoni
Librarian at KUNCI Study Forum & Collective • Autonomous archivist at Perpustaxaan • Tooling through a PD database together with CC Indonesia.
Copyright, Latin America, Spanish
Jose Mendoza
Lawyer and technologist • Believer in digital education • Researcher in copyright in digital environments, education and digital identity
Sub-Saharan Africa
Alaafiabami Oladipupo
Quantity Surveyor • Open Knowledge Advocate • Co-Founder Free knowledge Africa • Wikimedian and Community Developer
Open Science, Publication ethics, South Asia
Amber Osman
Passionate expert in open science, research and scholarly publishing. Advocates and mentors for best practices in scholarly communication.
New logo!
João Pombeiro, the designer of the Lisbon 2019 Creative Commons Summit identity, created a logo for Hack4OpenGLAM.
For me a hack is the simplest and most effective way to solve a problem. I tried to do that here.
The OpenGLAM logo was literally hacked to make the Hack4OpenGLAM logo. Two pixels were added to it to form the letter H in the middle.
The logo can be mirrored and flipped, for example with right-to-left scripts.Since it uses a grid, it can be reproduced easily with any digital or analog technique (cross stitch embroidery, 8bit graphics, Minecraft, graph paper, construction blocks, wall tiles, etc).
The open logo concept is an invitation to hack further. Anyone can change the font, color or texture to make a different version of the logo.
Keep in contact
Hack4OpenGLAM is produced by AvoinGLAM / Creative Commons Finland in collaboration with the OpenGLAM Platform at Creative Commons, and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.
