Final Chance to RSVP for Hackathon, Other Future of News
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Steven Clift
Dec 9, 2009, 4:54:45 PM12/9/09
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I just sent this out to those who RSVPed for Saturday's gathering.
Feel free to forward.
Folks who can't make it can check out these Twitter streams:
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23mplshack
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23ofon
Cheers,
Steven Clift
E-Democracy.org
Date: Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:44 PM
Subject: Please Confirm for Hackathon - Main Session 9-10am Sat Dec 12
@ Spill the Wine in Mpls
This is a quick note to confirm the exciting (if you make it) Civic
Hackathon. If you haven't followed the wiki, we've co-located with the
Other Future of News event at Spill The Wine in Minneapolis (see text
from http://pages.e-democracy.org/Hackathon below). We have about 15
RSVPs in the yes/maybe category and few virtual participants. Very
good.
Our main event "start-up" hour is from 9-10 a.m. and the other free
event (which you will be registered for unless you ask not) goes from
10am-5pm. We will have our side room for informal "coding"/discussion
use throughout the day as/if needed. This will be a great chance for
open gov coders and advocates to meet and mingle.
I ask that you visit this Google Spreadsheet to confirm your
participation (even if you can't make it, leave some contact details
you'd like to share with your peers):
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArhmVl0vhGLVdHlybnVDTFdHZTBURDd2YW56dkdnU3c&hl=en
Then I ask you to join and then post a pre-event intro on the
Minnesota Voices Online groups (originally created for those
interested in using social media to tell the story of communities
across MN):
http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/mnvoices/messages/topic/1v5fxu17xIo4qpWiK2IFa3
Finally, below are the full Hackathon details as of Wednesday - feel
free to invite others. Also, if you know of interesting public data
sets shared by governments in Minnesota (a kin to the 100,000 Federal
data sets now located at http://data.gov ), link them from here:
http://pages.e-democracy.org/Minnesota_public_data_sets
Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com - E-Democracy.org
From:
http://pages.e-democracy.org/Hackathon
E-Democracy.org is hosting the Minnesota version of the Sunlight
Foundation's Great American Hackathon on Saturday, December 12th.
No matter the civic-spirited code you write or open source projects
you contribute to, this will be a chance to meet other programmers in
Minnesota interested in online government transparency, the reuse of
government data, online civic engagement, use of technology in news,
etc. Non-technical open government supporters are encouraged to join
our opening introductions session from 9-10 a.m. at a minimum.
Event Details
* Location: Spill the Wine 1101 Washington Ave. S. Minneapolis,
Co-located with the Other Future of News event.
* Date: Saturday, Dec. 12
* Hackathon People and Project Introductions: 9 a.m. - 10 a.m.,
* Two Tracks - Either go in and out of the Other Future News event
in the main room from 10 am - 5:15 p.m., or stay in our dedicated
space for collaborative coding and continued exchange focused on the
use of technology/public data for government transparency,
accountability, and greater public participation.
* RSVP Please: Send an e-mail to: te...@e-democracy.org with YES or
MAYBE with your contact information and brief details on your tech
background or open government policy interest. We will cross-register
the "Yes" RSVP with the Other Future of News event unless you tell us
not to do so.
* For updates on similar activities around the nation, see the
Sunlight Foundation.
Projects/Ideas to Talk/Code About
From 9-10 a.m. before the Other Future of News event starts, we will
go around the room and ask people to briefly introduce themselves.
Depending upon the size of the group/interest in the partner event, we
will determine a schedule for deeper discussion of specific open
government tools if desired.
Please projects/topics you'd like to introduce/discuss:
* Steven Clift, E-Democracy.org - I'll briefly intro the GPL
GroupServer tool we use for Issues Forums, MyBallot.Net (a tool we'd
like to open source), and
* Ian Bicking, The Open Planning Project. I've been doing a bit of
work with the EveryBlock codebase recently, and at TOPP we are
starting to focus more on community participation in urban planning.
* Open Government Data Catalogs in Minneapolis/Minnesota like Data.Gov
* Data Use App Contests
* Media use of public data
* Attracting Everyblock.com to the Twin Cities
* Tony Webster, OpenMinneapolis.org - Brief introduction to the
Minneapolis-specific community engagement and government transparency
project and how it's being done
* Add more
Because this is an "introductory" event, we hope the it will lead to
future more hard core coding opportunities and gathering.
Feel free to forward.
Folks who can't make it can check out these Twitter streams:
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23mplshack
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23ofon
Cheers,
Steven Clift
E-Democracy.org
Date: Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:44 PM
Subject: Please Confirm for Hackathon - Main Session 9-10am Sat Dec 12
@ Spill the Wine in Mpls
This is a quick note to confirm the exciting (if you make it) Civic
Hackathon. If you haven't followed the wiki, we've co-located with the
Other Future of News event at Spill The Wine in Minneapolis (see text
from http://pages.e-democracy.org/Hackathon below). We have about 15
RSVPs in the yes/maybe category and few virtual participants. Very
good.
Our main event "start-up" hour is from 9-10 a.m. and the other free
event (which you will be registered for unless you ask not) goes from
10am-5pm. We will have our side room for informal "coding"/discussion
use throughout the day as/if needed. This will be a great chance for
open gov coders and advocates to meet and mingle.
I ask that you visit this Google Spreadsheet to confirm your
participation (even if you can't make it, leave some contact details
you'd like to share with your peers):
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArhmVl0vhGLVdHlybnVDTFdHZTBURDd2YW56dkdnU3c&hl=en
Then I ask you to join and then post a pre-event intro on the
Minnesota Voices Online groups (originally created for those
interested in using social media to tell the story of communities
across MN):
http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/mnvoices/messages/topic/1v5fxu17xIo4qpWiK2IFa3
Finally, below are the full Hackathon details as of Wednesday - feel
free to invite others. Also, if you know of interesting public data
sets shared by governments in Minnesota (a kin to the 100,000 Federal
data sets now located at http://data.gov ), link them from here:
http://pages.e-democracy.org/Minnesota_public_data_sets
Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com - E-Democracy.org
From:
http://pages.e-democracy.org/Hackathon
E-Democracy.org is hosting the Minnesota version of the Sunlight
Foundation's Great American Hackathon on Saturday, December 12th.
No matter the civic-spirited code you write or open source projects
you contribute to, this will be a chance to meet other programmers in
Minnesota interested in online government transparency, the reuse of
government data, online civic engagement, use of technology in news,
etc. Non-technical open government supporters are encouraged to join
our opening introductions session from 9-10 a.m. at a minimum.
Event Details
* Location: Spill the Wine 1101 Washington Ave. S. Minneapolis,
Co-located with the Other Future of News event.
* Date: Saturday, Dec. 12
* Hackathon People and Project Introductions: 9 a.m. - 10 a.m.,
* Two Tracks - Either go in and out of the Other Future News event
in the main room from 10 am - 5:15 p.m., or stay in our dedicated
space for collaborative coding and continued exchange focused on the
use of technology/public data for government transparency,
accountability, and greater public participation.
* RSVP Please: Send an e-mail to: te...@e-democracy.org with YES or
MAYBE with your contact information and brief details on your tech
background or open government policy interest. We will cross-register
the "Yes" RSVP with the Other Future of News event unless you tell us
not to do so.
* For updates on similar activities around the nation, see the
Sunlight Foundation.
Projects/Ideas to Talk/Code About
From 9-10 a.m. before the Other Future of News event starts, we will
go around the room and ask people to briefly introduce themselves.
Depending upon the size of the group/interest in the partner event, we
will determine a schedule for deeper discussion of specific open
government tools if desired.
Please projects/topics you'd like to introduce/discuss:
* Steven Clift, E-Democracy.org - I'll briefly intro the GPL
GroupServer tool we use for Issues Forums, MyBallot.Net (a tool we'd
like to open source), and
* Ian Bicking, The Open Planning Project. I've been doing a bit of
work with the EveryBlock codebase recently, and at TOPP we are
starting to focus more on community participation in urban planning.
* Open Government Data Catalogs in Minneapolis/Minnesota like Data.Gov
* Data Use App Contests
* Media use of public data
* Attracting Everyblock.com to the Twin Cities
* Tony Webster, OpenMinneapolis.org - Brief introduction to the
Minneapolis-specific community engagement and government transparency
project and how it's being done
* Add more
Because this is an "introductory" event, we hope the it will lead to
future more hard core coding opportunities and gathering.
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