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Who Stole My Cow? Open Data and Praedial Larceny
On December 23, 2012, thirty-two cows were stolen from a farm in Trelawny, Jamaica. By the time the story was picked up by a national newspaper three months later, the farm had been practically shut down, with only six of the original twenty-two workers still employed. Praedial larceny — the theft of agricultural produce and livestock — [...]
SlashRoots Google Summer Of Code Workshop Recap
On behalf of the SlashRoots team, I want to thank everyone who made it out to the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Workshop on Tuesday February 21st. The workshop was hosted by the Centre for Excellence, at the Mona School Of Business, University of The West Indies. We had a great turnout of over 40 students, [...]
SlashRoots on TVJ’s Smile Jamaica
On February 8th, 2012 SlashRoots Co-Founder, Matthew McNaughton, and the winning team from SlashRoots/DEV 2012 were featured on TVJ’s Smile Jamaica. The interview with Smile Jamaica’s Simon Crosskill highlighted the team’s application IT-Farm as well as the events of the conference and MSB’s Caribbean Open Institute. The winning team, composed of students from UTech’s SAPNA [...]
Focus Group: Transitioning to a region of mobile innovators…
SlashRoots on behalf of infoDev, a division of the World Bank, is inviting you to attend a focus group discussion in Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados. What Attend a focus group with other Caribbean entrepreneurs and software developers to explore the potential of establishing a mobile innovation and entrepreneurship initiative in the region. See below for [...]
Codesprint Tips
For “What is a codesprint?” and further background information, check this link. Here I’ve put together a few tips for our upcoming developer competition(codesprint) which is a central part of the 2012 SlashRoots conference. Register here. The first set of tips are from my experience in being a judge at the EduVision codesprint last year. More importantly, [...]
Sponsor Highlight: GitHub Officially Enters the Caribbean with Developing Caribbean Event
Hello World! We are absolutely thrilled today to officially announce GitHub as a Regional Sponsor for Caribbean Open Data Conference, themed “Developing Caribbean”. GitHub will be providing regional conference logistics support as well as prizes for the top three developer teams in each host site as well as other conference schwag for attendees. In [...]
Judging Developer Competition at the 2011 EduVision Conference
After chairing a panel on Cloud Computing on December 1st, Chief Slashroots organiser, Matthew McNaughton, was off to the “Developing Latin America” conference in Chile. Because of this, I was asked to sit in for him on December 2nd as a judge at the developer competition of the 2011 EduVision Conference which was held at the Jamaica Conference Centre. The competition asked [...]
Introducing the new SlashRoots!
Hello everyone, we in the SlashRoots community have a new logo(see above), a new website(you’re here) and a wicked new conference coming up in one month (Jan 27-28)! We have brought back the same energy, determination and collaboration that we used to launch the inaugural SlashRoots/DEV Conference earlier this year. To build upon the momentum [...]