Open Austin events this week
Luqmaan Dawoodjee
We have a few events this & next week, starting with the Civic Hack Night on Tuesday.
- Civic Hack Night - Tuesday, April 5 - 6:30pm
- City of Austin Open Data Meetup - Wednesday, April 6 - 10:00am
- Pre-ATX Hack for Change Workshop: Hackathon 101 - Thursday, April 7 - 7:00pm
- Journalism Hackathon at the Austin-American Statesman, put on by Hacks / Hackers Connect - Thursday April 14 - 9:00am
Civic Hack Night
For the Civic Hack Night, please bring a computer and have a project in mind you would like to work on. If you're looking for a project, check out project-ideas. Here's a few of the recently updated project ideas:
The agenda for the hack night is on Hackpad. Anybody can edit it, so feel free to. The Recycle Please team will be doing a quick demo of their work. Check out their GitHub repo here.
News
The City of Austin is now publishing City Council Agenda Items. Read more on our blog: Austin City Council Agendas Become Open Data.
The City of Austin recently opened up their Construction Permit data. This was spurred by our own project to make the data available.
Two visualizations were added to awesome-austin:
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