We are thinking about tools that promote community at SNDMakes Austin, in partnership with Statesman Media. Thanks to the generous support of our event hosts — Alley Interactive, CodePen, OwnLocal and Vox Media — and of scholarship sponsors — Dow Jones, EEJF and Scripps Howard — by the end of a 2.5-day, rapid prototyping sprint, the design teams will showcase their ideas starting at 11 a.m. central time, Sunday, Nov. 15. Follow along: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook.
We are thrilled to announce the cohort tackling our community tools question – How might we design tools that build community? – and a group of whom represent nearly 30 different organizations, over half are local to Austin:
- Tashween Ali, tw/@tashweenali, Social Media, BuzzFeed
- Liam Andrew, tw/@mailbackwards, Developer, Texas Tribune
- Drew Berger, fb/@drew.berger, Developer, Facebook
- Nicholas Branco, tw/@sargentnbbranco, Student, Raritan Valley
- Chuck Carpenter, tw/@chuckcarpenter, Developer, National Geographic
- Andrew Chavez, tw/@adchavez, Developer, Cox Media Group – Austin
- Angel Colberg, tw/@angelcolberg, Designer, Coral Project
- Chris Coyier, tw/@chriscoyier, Chief, CodePen
- Annie Daniel, tw/@anieldaniel, Developer, Texas Tribune
- Matt Dennewitz, tw/@mattdennewitz, Developer, Pitchfork
- Michael Donohoe, tw/@donohoe, Developer, New Yorker
- Alex Duner, tw/@asduner, Student, Northwestern U. Knight Lab
- Aidan Feay, tw/@aidanfeay, Developer, Vox Media
- Rodney Gibbs, tw/@rgibbs, Designer, Texas Tribune
- Melanie Gibson, tw/@melrosegibson, Product, Cox Media Group – Atlanta
- Chris Haines, tw/@chrismchaines, Product, Vox Media
- Sydette Harry, tw/@blackamazon, Editor, Coral Project
- Josh Kadis, tw/@kadisco, Product, Alley Interactive
- Lauren Katz, tw/@Laur_Katz, Editor, Vox Media
- Dheerja Kaur, tw/@dheerja, Product, The Skimm
- Andrew Keil, tw/@alwaysunday, Product, ATX Built
- Amanda Krauss, tw/@risatrix, Editor, Texas Tribune
- Jake Lear, tw/@jakelear, Product, Vox Media
- Andrew Losowky, tw/@losowsky, Product, Coral Project
- Agnes Mazur, tw/@amazur, Editor, Vox Media
- Greicy Mella, tw/@GreicyMella, Designer, New York Daily News
- Jolie McCullough, tw/@jsmccullou, Developer, Texas Tribune
- TJ McLarty, tw/@tjmclarty, Product, Cox Media Group – Austin
- Kathryn McElory, tw/@kemcelroy, Designer, IBM / Watson
- Megan McGaha, tw/@revlelrebel12, Student, Centenary College
- Jessica Morrison, tw/@ihearttheroad, Editor, Chemical and Engineering News
- Katherine Nagasawa, tw/@heyitsladynaga, Student, Northwestern U. Knight Lab
- Ryan Nagle, tw/@ryannagle, Developer, Institute for Nonprofit News
- Erik Palmer, tw/@erikpalmer, Professor, Southern Oregon University
- Caroline Pate, tw/@vomit_queen, Developer, The Spokesman-Review
- Sara Quinn, tw/@saraquinn, Vice President, Society for News Design
- Joshua Romero, tw/@joshuarrrr, Developer, Freelance
- Tyler Sax, fb/@tylersax, Developer, Facebook
- Traci Schoenberg, tw/@tracivan, Product, Cox Media Group – Atlanta
- Adam Schweigert, tw/@aschweigert, Product, Institute for Nonprofit News
- Austin Smith, tw/@netaustin, Chief, Alley Interactive
- Ashlyn Still, tw/@ashlynstill, Designer, Cox Media Group – Atlanta
- Kristi Walker, tw/@kristi_walker, Student, U. North Carolina – Chapel Hill
- Kristyn Wellesley, tw/@kriswellesley, Editor, Cox Media Group – Palm Beach
- Hannah Wise, tw/@hwise29, Designer, Dallas Morning News
- Emily Yount, tw/@emilyyount, Designer, Washington Post
Event partner and support
Statesman Media, is the Cox Media-owned publisher of Statesman.com, Austin360.com, Ahora Si, and the brand new Hookem.com. Find them at @Statesman.
Scholarships made possible by Dow Jones News Fund, Knight Foundation, Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, and Scripps Howard Foundation.
Official event hosts:
SNDMakes Austin team
Event planning and production was made possible by:
- Steve Dorsey, vice president of innovation at Austin American-Statesman and past-president of SND. Find him at @dorsey.
- Kyle Ellis, product development manager at The Business Journals and SND board member. Find him at @KyleEllis.
- Ramla Mahmood, designer at Vox Media and SND board member. Find her at @ramoved.
- Miranda Mulligan, digital specialist, news design veteran and SND board member. Find her at @jmm.
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Did you hear? SND receives record grant from Knight Foundation
With this Knight funding, we will be expanding the SNDMakes program to include putting in some very necessary program management infrastructure, as well as grow our current SNDMakes program. Please take a moment to thank Knight Foundation for their support, as well as our Society’s executive director, Stephen Komives, and past presidents David Kordalski and Matt Mansfield.
