I'm reaching out from the philanthropic arm of Google, Google.org which
supports non-profits aimed at technical innovation.
In our attempt to expand opportunity and independence for people with
disabilities we have recently launched a campaign aiming to identify and support non-profits doing innovative work in the assistive technology space.
The reason for this email is that in addition to the campaign,we are thinking of organizing
a hackathon around mid-late august focused
on assistive technology using this event as a source of inspiration.
The basic idea is to bring the need-knowers (people with disabilities and their
families/caregivers) together in the same room with tech folks
(hackers/makers/designers) and develop prototypes for affordable products that
could serve the needs of the community of people with disabilities.
We thought that the hacker community of Sudoroom might find it interesting/relevant
and some folks perhaps wish to participate.
We are trying to gauge the level of interest in something like this from
the hacker/maker/developer community.
Thoughts ? Ideas ? What should we think of to make this event more
relevant/interesting to the folks involved ?
With kindest regards,
On behalf of Google.org,