Restore the Fourth Chicago

[Benjamin Sugar]

Hello again,

CivicLab is going to be hosting the meetings for Restore the Fourth Chicago (http://www.restorethefourth.net/).  I was talking with some of the people in the RT4 and we would love to get groups such as Hacks/Hackers involved.  We hope you'll come to the meeting at CivicLab at 114 Aberdeen St. Chicago, IL from 8-10PM, Thursday Aug. 1st.  The group will be meeting every other week thereafter.

If you can think of any classes or workshops on the subject of privacy, government, and the press, we'd love to have those, too.  If you'd like to be involved but aren't sure how, contact us to ideate at info [at symbol] civiclab.us

Many thanks!

[Tom Tresser]

Hi Hacks and Hackers,

We're pleased to announce that CivicLab, a civic makerspace in the West Loop is now open!

CivicLab is a space that brings together a community organizers, educators, designers, makers, artists, and technologists to co-work, research, teach, build community and create tools. Together, we work to increase civic engagement, foster direct participation and empower neighborhoods.  CivicLab offers a fixed and floating desks for co-working, classes, community events, and MeetUps.

Particular to Hacks/Hackers, we're looking for teachers for all levels programming, hardware and software, and people who want to use their coding skills for the betterment of our communities.  We're hoping to have classes on obtaining data, mining it, visualizing it, mapping it, and community journalism.   We're also looking people who would like rent space to co-work.  Your job doesn't have to be directly related to civics, you just have to care about this city and desire to work side by side with peers who do, too.

You can find more information here:  http://www.civiclab.us/newhome/ or by emailing us at info [at symbol] civiclab.us

Thanks for your time, we look forward to meeting you in person at a subsequent Meetup.