List of hackathons about media in 2017

Jeremy Bentham, the English philosopher and social reformer, famously wrote ‘Many hands make light work‘. UCL Innovation and Enterprise invites you to collaborate with many like-minded individuals to make light work of transcribing Bentham's writings to build a comprehensive dataset of Bentham’s manuscripts. You'll help make new kinds of research possible into Bentham's works and contribute to an enhanced understanding of our cultural heritage.

Music hackers in the San Francisco Bay Area! If you're planning to attend the SF MusicTech Summit, then don't miss the opportunity to participate in the SF MusicTech Hackathon. In this 24-hour hacking event, you'll collaborate on creating an awesome solution to a challenge in Music VR/AR/XR, Music AI, music blockchain and cryptocurrencies.

Music fans and techies in the Greater New York area! Monthly Music Hackathon NYC invites you to participate in the New Musical Instruments Hackathon. You don't have to be an expert coder. Hackers and aspiring hackers of all skill levels and disciplines are invited to sign up. You'll be challenged to collaborate to find new ways to make music, noise, and sound, using anything from musical robots to hyperinstruments to hand-made wind instruments!

Coders, designers, music and public radio lovers in 88Nine Radio Milwaukee's listening area! You're invited to participate in the 88Nine Radio Milwaukee Hackathon. In this 8-hour event, you'll be challenged to collaborate with like-minded individuals to create innovative solutions for selected related to 88Nine Radio Milwaukee, local music, local storytelling or public radio in general. Showcase your creativity and win everyone's admiration -- and a small token for participating.

Developers and hackers in and around Chennai! You're invited to sign up to participate in the SRM Hackathon at the SRM University Kattankulathur campus. Showcase your coding skills and create an awesome technology solution to a real world issue in one of the event tracks: Rural Development, Food Processing & Manufacturing, Transportation, Environment, Judiciary, or Media & Entertainment. Pitch your project to the panel of judges and compete for prizes worth 3 Lakhs!

Ideas people in San Francisco and the Bay Area! Librarians, designers, researchers, programmers, or just regular folks! Archive Labs invite you to participate in the Internet Archive Experiments Hackathon 2017. You'll be challenged to come up with creative and innovative ideas to address selected project topics, such as Decentralizing the Web for Academic Journals, Annotations for Books and Wayback, Metadata for Books and other multimedia, and Experimental Prototypes and user interfaces.

Type designers, font engineers, graphic designers, product designers, and font enthusiasts! Thought you'd like to create your own font? You're invited to sign up to participate in Type Jam -- a hackathon event where you'll get to compete with like-minded individuals to design and implement the best new font you can! Compete for recognition and cash prizes.

VCs, entrepreneurs, cultural experts, and tech-art pioneers! Are you planning to participate in the upcoming CultTech-Hackathon in Austria? Open Austria invites you to attend Driving Radical Change – the pre-hackathon panel discussion about how startups are transforming the art industry. You'll get to learn about how cultural and artistic institutions are using the latest digital technologies, including blockchain, artificial intelligence, big data, augmented and virtual reality.

Designers, writers, graphic specialists, film editors, etc. Are you interested in social innovation? The Social Entrepreneurship Network Deutschland (SEND) invites you to sign up to participate in the Creative Hackathon. If you're part of this event, you'll collaborate to develop and assemble the necessary building blocks for a successful crowdfunding campaign.

Music-minded kids -- grades 6 -12 -- in Brooklyn and the Greater New York area! The Source and Blue 1647 invite you to sign up to participate in the SOURCE360 Youth Hackathon. You'll be challenged to be creative about how hip hop and technology can help solve community problems. You don't need to know how to code -- there will be plenty of people who can do that. Come join a team and build an awesome web or mobile app!