CityCamp and 2010 Mashable City
Allan T.
With Matt taking a new job at exciting stealth startup Swipe.ly and my
focus on Betaspring, we've let MashableCity get pretty quiet. I'm
planning on putting new energy into MashableCity, starting with my
attending CityCamp JAN 22-24 in Chicago. http://barcamp.pbworks.com/CityCamp
Below is the description for CityCamp. There is a lot of energy
nationally around creating new ways for urban citizens to connect to
each other, their institutions, and their govt using open local data.
Please let me know anything you are interested in knowing about from
CityCamp and I'll write up a report on my return.
Also any thoughts about making Providence more "Mashable" in 2010 are
most welcome.
Allan
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CityCamp explores and documents ideas, lessons learned, best
practices, and patterns related to use of social/participatory media,
linked open data, and "Web as platform" at the local level.
A core value of CityCamp is that local data - events, actions,
activities, alerts, transportation, repairs, budget income, expenses,
and other key indicators - have the most direct influence and impact
on our daily lives.
Goals
1. Bring together local government officials, municipal employees,
coders, designers, and journalists to share perspectives and insights
2. Establish patterns that cities can use to add value to citizens'
lives using the Web as a platform