Events this Saturday & Monday

[Luqmaan Dawoodjee]

Hi,

The Civic Hack Saturday is tomorrow (Saturday March 19) at Urban Co-Lab. http://www.meetup.com/Open-Austin/events/228334335/

The Civic Tech Meetup is Monday (Monday March 21) at the Terrazas Public Library. http://www.meetup.com/Open-Austin/events/228772262/. Kathy Mitchell from the Texas Electronic Privacy Coalition will be discussing the privacy and data retention issues surrounding the coming widespread use of Police Body Cameras both in Austin and at large.

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Civic Hack Saturday runs from 9am to 2pm. Feel free to drop in anytime between then. Good luck waking up tomorrow after all the SXSW stuff.

We have a lot of cool stuff to work on:

• Instabus 6.7 Redesign:
• We're rebuilding Instabus from scratch and have an opportunity to change the UI completely. We've already done some thinking about the new design and features, but we haven't gotten feedback from users yet. If you use Instabus please come talk to us.
• Socrata new dataset bot
• This project idea is getting a lot of attention from civic tech people across the country. Apparently we're not the only ones experiencing this problem. Lets make something helpful and easy for everybody else to fork. Whatever we build needs to be simple and easy to setup.
• Some ideas that weren't at CodeAcross
• Tool for finding business that don't allow "open carry" of handguns
• Add data to City Gram
• a script for taking Austin's data portal analysis to the next level (short term solution)
• My Building Doesn't Recycle
• Use data to prioritize fire station expansion
• Tool for understanding local voting versus political issues
• Build data visualizations for Austin Animal Services!
• All the ideas from Code Across:
• How might we increase the impact & awareness of xeriscaping with homeowners?
• Civic Focused Project Marketplace for Freelancers in Austin
• Affordable, Healthy Food
• Biking Safety
• Cultural Assets Census
• Teach people to ride the bus for the first time
• How might we help interested voters get credible, accurate information about how, where and when to vote?
• Increase internet infrastructure efficiency
• DWI Insights
• Liberate Appraisal Data
• How Might We connect Job Seekers, Educators, Employers

See you tomorrow and on Monday.

- Luqmaan

[Luqmaan Dawoodjee]

I'm really bad at computers. Here are links that actually work.

• Some ideas that weren't at CodeAcross

• • Tool for finding business that don't allow "open carry" of handguns ruby/rails status: experiment
  • Add data to City Gram data wrangling ruby/rails
  • a script for taking Austin's data portal analysis to the next level (short term solution) python statistics
  • My Building Doesn't Recycle javascript

• • Use data to prioritize fire station expansion

• • Tool for understanding local voting versus political issues help wanted

• • Build data visualizations for Austin Animal Services!

• All the ideas from Code Across
  • How might we increase the impact & awareness of xeriscaping with homeowners?
  • Civic Focused Project Marketplace for Freelancers in Austin
  • Affordable, Healthy Food
  • Biking Safety
  • Cultural Assets Census
  • Teach people to ride the bus for the first time
  • How might we help interested voters get credible, accurate information about how, where and when to vote?
  • Increase internet infrastructure efficiency
  • DWI Insights
  • Liberate Appraisal Data
  • How Might We connect Job Seekers, Educators, Employers