Chi Hack Night #188: Introducing Open Grid
Derek Eder
The 188th Chi Hack Night is Tuesday, January 19th at 6pm. RSVP here!
Tom Schenk, Jr and Daniel X. O’Neil will debut a new project by the City of Chicago called OpenGrid — an open-source, next generation version of WindyGrid — that will allow the public to navigate Chicago’s open data in a more intuitive interface.
Data portals organize data by individual datasets, making it difficult to combine data and see what is happening in your neighborhood. OpenGrid is a public website using data from the City of Chicago Data Portal — via the Plenar.io project — to let users search for events happening around them in user-defined areas or based on the user’s location.
Leadership Council #20
We will have our 20th Chi Hack Night Leadership Council at 8pm after the group breakouts get started. This meeting is for discussing new ideas and ways to make the hack night better. Anyone is welcome to join!
If you’d like to bring up a topic, add it to the Leadership Council agenda.
Agenda and meeting notes
Breakout groups
Code of conduct
Sponsor Microsoft
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Freedom of Information and Laquan McDonald by Steven Vance
The story of how the Laquan McDonald video got released thanks to one curious journalist and the Freedom of Information Act.
Bonus: our friends at Scrappers Film Group recorded Brandon's presentation. You can watch the whole thing here.
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