{"id":95,"date":"2011-06-07T14:41:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T14:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/2011\/06\/07\/rhok2\/"},"modified":"2011-06-07T14:41:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T14:41:41","slug":"rhok2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/2011\/06\/07\/rhok2\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Hacks of Kindness on Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/RHoK3.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>Trinity was one of 15 global sites to host&nbsp;a Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) gathering of volunteer software developers on June 4 and 5, an initiative designed to help find technology solutions for natural and man-made disaster response.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>RHoK is a unique collaboration between Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA and the World Bank, and is dedicated to using technology to make the world a better place by building a volunteer community of innovation. This is the fourth RHoK event the partners have hosted since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Two teams shared first prize at the Hartford site&nbsp;&#8211; &#8220;First Responder Bluetooth Based Alerting and Tracking System&#8221; developed by a team with students from St. Johns University in Queens, N.Y. and Connecticut College,&nbsp;and &#8220;Commodities Tracker for Haiti&#8221;&nbsp;developed by a team from Trinity.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>(<em>Photo courtesy Trishan de Lanerolle<\/em>)&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinity was one of 15 global sites to host&nbsp;a Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) gathering of volunteer software developers on June 4 and 5, an initiative designed to help find technology solutions for natural and man-made disaster response.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;RHoK is a unique collaboration between Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA and the World Bank, and is dedicated to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}