Hacknight #365

Torontoverse: Local media built from open data

with Chris Dinn

Recording

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Introducing Torontoverse [https://tovrs.ca](https://tovrs.ca), a local media site that imagines the city as an interactive video game. It's stitching open data, innovative reporting, and the ‘local web’ together into a new kind of thing.

Speakers

Chris Dinn

Chris is the publisher and lead developer of [Torontoverse](https://torontoverse.com/). He's convinced that AI technology is revolutionizing software development. Chris Dinn is a software engineer with passion for media innovation.

Topic: Torontoverse: Local media built from open data

Introducing Torontoverse (https://tovrs.ca), a local media site that imagines the city as an interactive video game. It’s stitching open data, innovative reporting, and the “local web” together into a new kind of thing.

Speakers: Chris Dinn is a software engineer with passion for media innovation. He’s worked on video streaming, ad serving and even (briefly) file systems for an experimental new OS. Now, he’s the publisher of Torontoverse.