Name: Code for Durham: Civic Hacking Session
Start: 2014-12-16T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2014-12-16T20:00:00-05:00
Location: American Underground

Tonight's Agenda:

• 5:00-5:20p: Free Pizza & Good Beer Provided /Networking/Introductions

• 5:20-5:40p: Announcements/Project Updates/Demos

• 5:40-7:30p: Hack Night/Project Development

For first timers trying to get the most out of the night, you should bring your laptop, watch Civic Hacking 101 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH6LnW_qjeI), watch CfA Founder Jen Pahlka's recent keynote (https://t.yesware.com/tl/fae269bee19aeb8e251ae5d887b063a941581f3a/22c9eab162496947b4067f64310ba4f7/60b3238924a8a9ca7cb77d7d478c82f4?ytl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DPekb5ZhcqKk%26index%3D2%26list%3DPL65XgbSILalWFStqV0z0N9pvftstJ8AAh) &/or read the U.S. Digital Services playbook (https://t.yesware.com/tl/fae269bee19aeb8e251ae5d887b063a941581f3a/22c9eab162496947b4067f64310ba4f7/61105d4a10f10042bff97b21011655e8?ytl=http%3A%2F%2Fplaybook.cio.gov%2F) for the basic principles we try to apply to every project. And review our projects page (http://projects.betanyc.us/) to get an idea of where you might want to plug in!

*Attendance implies consent to our Code of Conduct (https://github.com/codeforamerica/codeofconduct).

New Project Highlights

• Building Code for Durham Team: We are looking for 3 core team members! Roles include Storyteller, Event Organizer and Delivery Leads. More descriptions here (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oEB1CuzCHldxP_bzcvmcrmK0yAE1BzV2AGhtwtYKZVY/edit?usp=drive_web). message adam martin or colin copeland if interested

• Testing IBM Agile DevOps tool (IDN) with our School Navigator (https://hub.jazz.net/project/ginnyb/CodeForDurhamSchoolNav/overview) project as a potential model/tool for all projects to help facilitate more remote participation (Thanks Ginny Ghezzo!).

• Feb 20-22 - CfA's Code Across Event (examples from 2014 (http://www.codeforamerica.org/events/codeacross-2014/))- Save the Date & we looking for help planning. Some ideas to start: Scour CfA community for other apps we want to re-deploy (e.g. Atlanta's capital spending map); help with Durham's Open Data Census; or take HackDuke projects to next level...

• Open 211/ Open Info & Referral Ecosystem Pilot: with United Way of NC & Durham County, we want to be among the first pilots of Open 211 - Towards Yelp for Social Services (https://docs.google.com/document/d/198eEMJeQDqWdZemPn_uEWoyigNR-IAyzK0DWsB1Nyew/edit#). along with Washington DC and San Francisco. (Looking for a local project lead- non-devs and web devs needed!)

• Local Open Data Planning: Data Requests? We attend weekly open data meetings and are looking for priorities from community.

• Other New Project Ideas from the Community are here: http://bit.ly/bullcitychallenges

MOST Active Projects (Leads): (Full List here (http://cfd-live.poplar.phl.io/projects))

• School Navigator (https://github.com/codefordurham/school-inspector) - Help parents or soon-to-be parents/residents navigate the Durham public school system (Delivery Lead-Colin C.).

• Code for Durham (Laddr Site Customizations) (http://cfd-live.poplar.phl.io/) - Updating our landing website to help us tell our story better and improve the onboarding process for new members, and align with Code for Raleigh & Code for Carry with new projects. Sign up on the alpha version to see other projects! (http://cfd-live.poplar.phl.io/) Calling on php, css and designers to work on the emergence platform! (Delivery Lead - Adam M).

• Durham Trails Open Data Standardization - Working with Durham City & County officials to adopt Code for America recommended specification (http://www.codeforamerica.org/specifications/trails/)

What is a hacknight?

This is a weekly project night for technologists, designers, developers, data scientists, map makers, and activists who are working on "civic technology" projects. Consider this to be a study hall or office hours to improve the city.

This night is for those who want to:

* get work done on civic projects

* start a new project, or find one to join

* get feedback from technical, government, or community experts

* learn about tools for local empowerment, open data, smart and open government

Bring your laptop, ideas, projects, maps, data, and questions. Collectively, we will try to answer them.

Have fun. Do good.

adam martin

Colin Copeland

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