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Description:
We're a group of Hamilton citizens who want to make the city better using open data, we exist to facilitate and support the open data community in creating apps
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 Dowsing - Hamilton's open data app to find water
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Greetings everyone,
I'm happy to announce that I've launched an interactive Google Map using the Fusion Tables API that helps people find the nearest public water play feature, swimming pool, or beach.
I've launched it on the Open Hamilton website for now: [link]... more »
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New to the group? Please read our welcome message and community guidelines
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*Welcome!* Open Hamilton is a loose organization of citizens committed to collaboration to be awesome. We want to build an awesome city with awesome people by applying open principles to civic life. We believe in powering our city with complete primary information and using that information to build applications that improve our city.... more »
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Organising #Hack4HamOnt - the general thread
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This is the general organising thread for #Hack4HamOnt We'll be meeting every Thursday evening starting at 6:00pm in the month of November to organise the event. More about the event can be found on the Open Hamilton blog: [link]
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Proposal: Online Ward Boundary Game
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Hi All,
I recently received an email informing me of an online exercise in Greater
Washington allowing people to play with changing ward boundaries by
assigning census tracts to different wards.
[link]
Anyone interested in building something like this for Hamilton? Thanks to... more »
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Munich Switch to Linux a Success
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In case you haven't seen this: "By migrating to its own Linux distribution, LiMux, the German city of Munich reduced both IT costs and user complaints, according to figures provided by Mayor Christian Ude." [link]... more »
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Iceland public admin moving toward open source
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All public administrations in Iceland are increasing their use of free and open source software. The country's government recently launched a one year migration project for all of its public institutions. "The goal of the project is not to migrate public institutions to free and open source software in one single year but to lay a solid foundation for such a... more »
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Open Hamilton meetup this weekend: CANCELLED
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I've been unable to find anyone able to be at think|haus to open things for Open Hamilton this Saturday. (I'm at Queen's for a conference I'm speaking at) The City of Hamilton website report is going to be done in April due to the McMaster campus issue taking staff time. We are schedule to next meet on March 15th at 5:30pm in City Hall.... more »
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Waste Collection Data
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Morning everyone, The City emailed me late last week and they are looking to provide waste collection data in an open format. They hope to see a mobile product result and are, wisely, looking to release data instead of their normal procedures. There's a post on the OH blog calling for volunteers to lead this by... more »
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OpenHamilton Meeting at City Hall
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Hello all. It was great meeting you all last night! Lots of great
minds and attitudes.
I quickly pushed out this little concept of what I was talking about
last night. I don't think in it's current state it is incredibly
useful, but maybe it can help to begin defining the strategy
OpenHamilton wants to take towards furthering and putting pressure on... more »
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