Fwd: [betaNYC] The.Message_2015.07 - Gearing up for #CodeAcross NYC, launching talk.beta & data.beta.nyc
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From: "Noel Hidalgo | BetaNYC" <no...@beta.nyc>
Date: Feb 10, 2015 11:44 AM
Subject: [betaNYC] The.Message_2015.07 - Gearing up for #CodeAcross NYC, launching talk.beta & data.beta.nyc
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We have received overwhelming registrations for #CodeAcross NYC - NYC's festival for #OpenData and #CivicTech. We have opened up a second round of tickets and want you to join us - register today on eventbrite.
For the weekend, we will:
- Teach or learn how to use and interpret NYC’s Open Data.
- Make new open data by scraping or unlocking static data.
- Create tools and prototypes that help us understand the city’s open data.
To get the most out of CodeAcross, one needs to prepare. The most successful hack events start with good ideas, talented experts, and defined expectations. To manage this, we need to engage on in three threads.
If you have already registered:
- Introduce yourself!
- Then, discuss what you want to learn!
- If you have a project, what do you want to build / problem do you want to address.
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Launching Talk.Beta & Data.Beta.
For the past six years, we have built physical and digital spaces to demystify government, data, and this thing we now call "civic tech." Through those years, we have added a number of tools that sent us all off to different locations. This year, we reign them in. Introducing, NYC's civic tech community forum and community data catalog!
"Talk-dot-beta" is NYC's online home to civic technology, open data, and open government. This discussion portal is built on discourse, an open source discussion platform. It now hosts our general discussions, our developers corner, our open data workgroup, the City Record Online Workgroup, CityGram.nyc workgroup, and conversations around CodeAcross NYC.
- General discussions
- Developers Corner
- Open Data Workgroup
- City Record Online Workgroup
- CityGram.NYC Workgroup
- CodeAcross NYC conversations
Thank you Joel and Volkan for all of your hacking! Without them, we wouldn't have make this far. If you have a chance, create your account and thank them for being our sysadmins!
Data.Beta.NYC
Additionally, we are prototyping discourse integration with CKAN!
In December 2014, Kristen Meriwether, a reporter for the Gotham Gazette, highlighted Citygram.NYC and its elegant use of city data. At the end of her article, Kristen challenged NYC to adopt OpenData.City, a CKAN distribution. Built upon the same software the US federal government uses for Data.Gov and the UK government uses for data.gov.UK, CKAN is standing on the shoulders of giants.
Today, we get to sit on their shoulders. Thanks to NYC's Ontodia, New Yorkers have a bleeding edge, community, open data solution!! Thanks to Ontodia, NYC is leading the way to to solve one of the most vexing open data problems - conversations around data. At the end of every dataset, you will find a link to talk.beta.nyc discussion topic. Additionally, Ontodia is working with NYC's own CartoDB to make open data more useful. As soon as that module is done, you will have just about all of the features currently found on the City's data portal.
If you have data to share, please uploaded it before CodeAcross NYC 2015.
FYI - Both sites are in alpha. If things go south and you find some downtime, start practicing for our talent show.
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See civic tech in action!
On Wed, Feb 11th at 11am, EDT, join Ontodia and CartoDB on how CKAN can help you manage, publish, visualize, and analyze datasets.
Also, you can watch NYC's Mind My Buisness demo at NYTM or check out the latest issue of Civic Quarterly.
Finally, check out Murray Cox's InsideAirBnB.com. This is a fascinating look at who is "sharing" their dwellings.
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