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Omaha World-Herald features a “home school” code school
It’s a different kind of code school—a home code school. Paige Yowell of the Omaha World-Herald tells the story of how Burch Kealey brought his kids and neighbor’s kids into his home every week to teach them how to code on Raspberry Pi machines…
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Data competition Hack Omaha returns with one-day format Oct. 13
Hack Omaha, a programming competition focused on the use of government data, returns Oct. 13 with a new format and cast of supporting organizations. First held over a weekend in April, Hack Omaha is now a 12-hour hackathon pitting teams against each other to build an app using one of three government data sets. The…
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Q&A: Omaha World-Herald designer on Omaha.com redesign
Today marks the launch of the Omaha World-Herald’s redesigned website, which has been in the works for about a year, according to online team leader Ben Vankat. We conducted an email interview on Wednesday with Vankat (left) about how the new site came to be, challenges presented by the redesign and how it will incorporate…
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Startup Job Crawl edition: Internships, developers and more
We’re excited to bring you a special 98th Opportunities on The Prairie today with opportunities from all over the region including those available from the most recent Startup Job Crawl Des Moines. …
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Q&A: Hack Omaha organizer on data, design and a 125-year-old newspaper
The Omaha World-Herald, Nebraska’s oldest and most-read newspaper, is doing something innovative. But don’t go looking for it in the World-Herald’s print product or on its website. Instead, to see it, you’ll need to visit the World-Herald’s offices in downtown Omaha later this month. From April 13-15, the World-Herald will host Hack Omaha, the area’s…
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Prairie Portrait: Matt Wynn of the Omaha World-Herald
Silicon Prairie News: What outcomes would you like to see Hack Omaha produce? | Matt Wynn: When we (at the World-Herald) create something, it’s undoubtedly ours. It answers questions we want asked, it solves problems we think exist. Well, we’re journalists. We’re wired funny. We want to see how the same basic goal — make…
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World-Herald to host programming competition Hack Omaha in April
Over the past year, the Omaha World-Herald has released a number of noteworthy projects that make use of public data. Now, staff members of the state’s most-read daily newspaper and website are inviting the public into their newsroom to hack on that data with them. The inaugural Hack Omaha, a weekend programming competition during which…
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Gig Bits: Connecting dots between Google moves in Council Bluffs, KC
For a project that’s expected to enable uploads and downloads at ultra-fast speeds, Google Fiber has come into focus at a plodding pace. But thanks to reports that surfaced over the weekend and early this week, people are beginning to connect the dots between recent Google activity in two Silicon Prairie hubs. First, several outlets…