{"id":1144,"date":"2010-12-14T02:53:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T10:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2010-12-14T07:25:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T15:25:40","slug":"random-hacks-of-kindness-rhok-and-google-person-finder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/random-hacks-of-kindness-rhok-and-google-person-finder\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) and Google Person Finder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I took part in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhok.org\/about\/what-is-random-hacks-of-kindness\/\">Random Hacks of Kindness<\/a> an international hackathon dedicated to creating useful systems to respond to critical global challenges. I met with other programmers at the Betahaus in Berlin and worked with <a href=\"http:\/\/timschwartz.org\/\">Tim Schwartz<\/a> and Mikkel Gravgaard on <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/googlepersonfinder\/\">Google Person Finder<\/a> a searchable database of missing persons that helps people find loved ones during disasters. It was used during the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-10461112-93.html\">2010 Haiti and Chilean Earthquakes<\/a> and is developed by volunteers and employees of Google.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Picture-21.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Picture 21\" width=\"600\" height=\"465\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1147\" style=\"border:1px solid #333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Picture-21.png 600w, https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Picture-21-516x400.png 516w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Photo by Flickr user rhokberlin<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/5235338306_dfdfb2141d_z-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"5235338306_dfdfb2141d_z\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/5235338306_dfdfb2141d_z-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/5235338306_dfdfb2141d_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Photo by Flickr user nblr<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/5234474729_9d6d5a270a_z-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"5234474729_9d6d5a270a_z\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/5234474729_9d6d5a270a_z-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/5234474729_9d6d5a270a_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Photo by Flickr user nblr<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I took part in Random Hacks of Kindness an international hackathon dedicated to creating useful systems to respond to critical global challenges. I met with other programmers at the Betahaus in Berlin and worked with Tim Schwartz and Mikkel Gravgaard on Google Person Finder a searchable database of missing persons that helps people [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/random-hacks-of-kindness-rhok-and-google-person-finder\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) and Google Person Finder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[133,165],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","tag-berlin","tag-code"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ovQg-is","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}