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Anderson, Pete
Steve,
A great idea and I applaud the effort.
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make it today (at work), but I look forward to hearing about how it goes.
I’ve been on the board of the Tarrant Area Food Bank for six years-so certainly want that one to be included.
Thanks.
Pete
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§ Dallas Makerspace civic hacking mini-hackathon Saturday [1 Update]
steevithak <srain...@ncc.com> Aug 23 08:52AM -0700
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
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Oops, apologies for the accidental blank email!
I second what Pete said. It’s exciting to see civic hacking picking up steam here! Steve is definitely doing great stuff and I’m so glad to see Dallas Makerspace embracing the effort.
A few things:
- I still owe everyone an update on our previous meetup in Grapevine. Sorry for the delay. I’m going to wait however to get more word on this event and combine reporting/analysis on the two via http://texrat.net. Steve, if you want to collaborate with me on that I’m game.
- We still need to make sure we’re capturing events and actions and I agree with Steve’s previous proposal on that. I still need to get something going on http://datalibredfw.org too. That said, I will continue to use my blog (above) as a pulpit for evangelizing on the subject.
- I have included Jason Best of the Botanical Reasearch Institute of texas (BRIT) as he has expressed interest. I will add him to the list. Welcome Jason!
Again I apologize for slowness in responses but it underscores the fact that I need to reduce my role to representative of the Tarrant Makers (and sponsor via Nokia) and put increased emphasis on identifying someone who can spearhead DFW Data Libre in general. Don’t be shy if you’re interested or know someone who may be!
Randall (Randy) Arnold
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