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*CODEX Hackathon* codexhackathon.com June 26-28, 2015. San Francisco WHAT'S THE FUTURE OF READING? We're throwing a literary/publishing/library/books hackathon during the American Library Association conference in San Francisco on June 26-28, 2015. It's called CODEX. It's going to be epic. It's a gathering of folks who want to imagine the future of books and reading. Programmers, designers, writers, librarians, publishers, readers. All are welcome. Opening Reception Github HQ • 88 Colin P Kelly Jr. Street Friday, June 26, 2015 Hackathon Parisoma • 169 11th Street. Weekend of June 27-28, 2015 The theme/challenge will be "connecting." So connecting around books, connecting around reading, connecting readers and authors, connecting libraries with books. So imagine dating app for readers, Groupon for books, Tinder for book discovery, new APIs, Partners and Sponsors: Harper Collins, Macmillan, New York Public Library http://nypl.org , the Knight Foundation http://knightfoundation.org , Stanford d.school http://dschool.stanford.edu/ , Little Brown, Mailchimp http://mailchimp.com/ , Dropbox, Github http://github.com/ , the Digital Public Library of America http://dp.la/ , Publishers Weekly http://publishersweekly.com , Project Gitenberg http://gitenberg.github.io , Recovering the Classics http://recoveringtheclassics.com/ , Harvard Book Store http://harvard.com/ ,