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Civic Hacknight in Manhattan

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Civic Hacknight in Manhattan

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What is a civic hacknight?

This is a weekly project night is 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.

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Hacknight resources:

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), Civic Hacking 102 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNYe3dsFh10), and review our projects page (http://projects.betanyc.us/).

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Projects, presentations, & #CivicFreeSchool:

After the introduction, We’ll keep the “formal” part of the evening down to a minimum: announcements, meet your neighbor, etc. After the introduction, we will have a number of people represent subject areas, specific projects, and have some skills share / education. A portion of these nights will turn into something we are experimenting with the title #CivicFreeSchool (https://twitter.com/search?q=CivicFreeSchool&src=typd)!

Community Projects:

  • What are YOU working on? Plug it into this event's comments section!

A special note about the CityGram Project.

Citygram.nyc (https://www.citygram.nyc/) is a geographic notification platform forked from Code for America’s Citygram and designed to work with open government data. It allows residents to designate area(s) of a city they are interested in and subscribe to one or more topics. When an event for a desired topic occurs in the subscriber's area of interest, a notification is delivered via email or SMS.

Currently, there are only two topics to which one can subscribe: all 311 complaints and all traffic collisions. Of course, there is a lot of room for growth in available topics, and Citygram.nyc needs your help!

As a NYC resident, about what would you like to get notifications? How can you contribute to make Citygram.nyc even better?

At hacknight this Wednesday, we’ll be working on adding data feeds to Citygram.nyc, and we’d love for you to come with your Citygram.nyc data feed wishlist. Think about the data on https://data.cityofnewyork.us/ -- which datasets contain information that would be useful as notifications? In addition, if you have a chance, practice setting up a connector with help from Code for America’s Getting Started with Citygram (https://github.com/codeforamerica/citygram/wiki/Getting-Started-with-Citygram).

Additional resources:

Open government data (https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Social-Services/311-Service-Requests-from-2010-to-Present/erm2-nwe9)

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Citygram connector (https://github.com/BetaNYC/citygram-services/blob/master/lib/spy_glass/registry/nyc-311.rb)

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Citygram.nyc (https://www.citygram.nyc/)

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Sponsors:

The Code for America Brigade program (http://www.codeforamerica.org/brigade/) is an international network of people committed to using their voices and hands, in collaboration with local governments, to make their cities better.

Microsoft Civic aims to collaboratively address the most pressing community challenges through the hyper-local creation, deployment, and evangelism of civic technology.

Accela provides civic engagement solutions for government. Accela’s solutions uniquely address the diverse needs of their constituents by making publicly available information more accessible. The Accela Civic Platform includes solutions for land management, asset management, licensing and case management, legislative management, right of way management, citizen relationship management, recreation and resource management, environmental health and safety.

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Note about the venue:

You should RSVP with the name that appears on a photo ID. In order to give building security an RSVP list, RSVPs will close at 4:00 PM the day of the event. If you miss this deadline, most of the time security is nice and will let you in.

BetaNYC is committed to hosting safe and open events for all. By attending this event you are committing yourself to BetaNYC's Code of Conduct and Anti-Harassment Policy (https://github.com/BetaNYC/What-is-BetaNYC/blob/master/Code-of-Conduct.md).

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