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Representatives of the IT industry organized an online hackathon in support of political prisoners
On the jury: Aidar Gubaidulin, a defendant in the “Moscow case” who left Russia, Leonid Volkov and Pavel Chikov.
Representatives of the IT industry organized an online hackathon in support of political prisoners, which will be held from December 13 to 15. Any projects that “show that their authors care” are allowed to participate.
The projects will be assessed by: Aidar Gubaidulin, a person involved in the “Moscow case” who left Russia, Leonid Volkov, Pavel Chikov, coordinator of “Human Rights Postcard” Valya Dekhtyarenko, St. Petersburg State University teacher Vitaly Bragilevsky, “Current Time” correspondent Elizaveta Nesterova, editor-in-chief of “Mediazona” Sergei Smirnov and a graduate MIPT Yulia Yakovleva.
For those who want to participate but have no ideas, the organizers have prepared a section with ideas from human rights activists. But it's still in development. “The best projects will receive prizes from our partners (Case 212, Mediazona, moloko plus, photojournalist David Frenkel, Barking store),” said the organizers.
This is an opportunity to use code as a way to express yourself and make your position known. Even if you write in the console.log on your website that you are against political repression: in fact, any support is important now.
hackathon organizers
The organizers of the hackathon are IT specialists, authors of an open letter in defense of those involved in the Moscow case. According to them, the document was signed by more than two thousand specialists in a few days. The organizers believe that after this “the machine of repression did not stop.” “We are against people being repressed for their beliefs, and we want to help political prisoners,” explained the organizers.
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