Dallas Makerspace civic hacking mini-hackathon Saturday

[steevithak]

Sorry for the late notice, I'd meant to send this out earlier!

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The Dallas Makerspace Civic Hacking group will host a mini-hackathon on 24 Aug in the Monroe classroom at Dallas Makerspace. The plan is to meet up at 11am for lunch followed by a few hours of DFW map hacking.

The goal is to add location and mission meta-data to Open Street Map for Dallas / Fort-Worth social service charities such as food banks, homeless shelters, and women's shelters. Once the data is in Open Street Map it will be available to open source app developers for use in web and phone based apps that can help people in our area find and connect with charities that can help them. 

Saturday's mini-hackathon is primarily a test run for the civic hacking group but is open to anyone who wants to help. No special skills are needed. All you need to bring is a laptop or notebook computer with a web browser. We'll provide a quick tutorial on how the process works, then we'll break up into teams to build lists of local charities and add them to the OSM database. See the web page for more details:

 https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Civic_Hacking_Hackathon_2013_Aug_24

For general info on the DMS civic hacking group, see our page in the Wiki:

 https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Civic_Hacking

-Steve Rainwater