CivicDB for government as a platform

Location: San Francisco, CA 37.77-122.41 94103US

Meetups: 1 so far

Members: 44 Members

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Meetup topics: Open Government, Software Developers, Programming, Web Standards, IT Professional, Internet & Technology, Internet Professionals

Founded: September 1, 2009

Work group to establish guidelines and standards in publishing civic data - local and federal government, transportation etc.

Think of it as an unified API to access Data.GOV, DataSF.org and similar repositories.

Our target audience is mainly developers - whether to help us create the API or using the API in their applications.

Webpage: http://www.civicdb.org/

Developer Wiki: http://apps.sfgov.org/opendata

On IRC: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=civicdb

CivicDB organization is non-partisan and member-managed.

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Sep 12 10:00 AM

CivicDB September Meetup - Full day on Sat

18 attended

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What's new?

Nov 9
- New discussion
  
  Gov 2.0 Kit on CodePlex
  
  Started by Roger Williams.

Oct 23
- New discussion
  
  Nov 7 - California Data Camp...
  
  Started by Csaba (Chaba) Csoma.

Oct 16
- New member
  
  William Shulman
  
  “My background is in software. I am joining the group to learn more about the technical challenges this project is facing and help out if I can.”

Oct 7
- New member
  
  Glen Roth
  
  “My background is in political campaigns and political communication; I now work in online advertising sales. Yes, I realize I'm not a developer but I want to find where I can be of value to this effort.”

Oct 6
- New member
  
  sulimon sattari

Sep 29
- New member
  
  Mark Shervey

Sep 23
- New member
  
  Roger Williams
  
  “I use govtrack.us (as a user). For work, I do Sharepoint and .Net programming.”

Sep 17
- New member
  
  Thurston

Sep 15
- New member
  
  Alvin

Sep 12
- New member
  
  Ryan Wold
  
  “I'm passionate about using technology to increase transparency in governance by lowering obstacles to citizen participation by freeing public data from its organizational silos.”