National Day of Civic Hacking: Pittsburgh Edition

June 6 is the National Day of Civic Hacking. Please save the date for this daylong event. In the morning, you'll learn how to use some of the great new Web mapping technologies, and in the afternoon, you'll be able to show what you've learned by working with real data and real challenges.

Agenda:
0945 - 1015 Check-in
Meet and Greet with morning munchies

1015 - 1030 Welcome
Who we are and who are you
The Code of Conduct
Facility information
Planning the day

1030 - noon Meet your map
An introduction to GIS mapping by Christian Gass

noon - 1230 Lunch

1230- 3:30 pm Challenges
Mapping your data
Open Data Census - The city web site review part of a CfA project
US Data Census (TBD - they are still working out the API bugs)
Community out reach data
Help update the Police Blotter
Let us know if you have a challenge you'd like to work on

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Wrap up
How'd we do?
What's the next steps?

Chance to win a gift card but you have to be present.

Thank-you for supporting the National Day of Civic Hacking - Pittsburgh Style

It will be helpful but not essential to bring a laptop. For our repository of maps and data, we will use https://github.com/openpgh/NationalDayofCivicHacking.git If you need help registering for a Github account, we'll be there to help you with the registration process.

We will also provide you with snacks and lunch.

Parking is available on the street along Hamilton and adjacent streets, and is very close to the East Busway's Homewood station.

We'll be one of many cities participating in the National Day of Civic Hacking. For more information, please see http://hackforchange.org/