Code Switch: June 4th and 5th civic hackathon focused on equity and diversity
Bill Bushey
I'm one of the organizers of Open Twin Cities, I'd like to welcome you all to an upcoming civic hackathon that we are helping to organize. Code Switch is going to be a civic hackathon focused on equity in the Twin Cities. As a hackathon, there will be plenty of discussion and building of technologies during the event, and we'd like to welcome you to take part in this collaborative, fun, and free event.
Please Join us for Code Switch, June 4 & 5 at the Downtown Minneapolis Library! Click Here to RSVP, vote and comment on ideas, and submit your own ideas.
If you are interested in issues around equity and diversity—from how history is represented and whose stories get told, to access to education and arts resources—Code Switch is for you. We are looking for passionate community members and leaders, designers, project managers, data analysts, programmers, people who want to learn, to participate in a hackathon for change. NO COMPUTER OR TECHNOLOGY KNOW-HOW REQUIRED!
Code Switch is a free two-day civic hackathon in which community members, designers, project managers, programmers, and people who just want to learn, collaborate intensively on projects that change our community. Great solutions are born when innovators from the community lead the development process—from ideation to launch.
We provide breakfast, lunch, caffeine, wifi, and a beautiful space to work. You provide the creativity. Come to Code Switch to help us find paths to closing gaps and create new opportunities. Register TODAY!
Code Switch is sponsored by Umbra: Search African American History (umbrasearch.org)/Givens Collection of African American Literature and Charles Babbage Institute (UofM Libraries), the MN chapter of Blacks in Technology, Hennepin County, and Open Twin Cities. It is part of Hack for MN and the National Day for Civic Hacking 2016 to leverage open data, technology, and community for civic innovation and change.