BetaTalk - BetaNYC in 2016

What is a BetaTalk?

A BetaTalk is part of BetaNYC's monthly thought-leader salon series. These events demystify BetaNYC, the civic technology, data, design, and the thought leaders behind it all.

For this BetaTalk, we will dive into BetaNYC's 2016 activities.

• Recap of CityGram Saturday
• Update on community leadership
• A look at 2016's events
• School of Data NYC, our March 2016 spring hackathon

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Community resources:

For first timers trying to get the most out of the night, you should bring your laptop, power supply, and watch the following videos -- Civic Hacking 101 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH6LnW_qjeI) & Civic Hacking 102 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNYe3dsFh10).

• Check out conversations on https://talk.beta.nyc
• Join a real time conversation via http://slack.beta.nyc
• Data tools: Data.Beta.NYC (http://data.beta.nyc/), data resources (https://docs.google.com/a/betanyc.us/spreadsheets/d/1R7O_FZLNB8VV5eoPDNATb-f0njjUsJwmz22cT_OB3fw/edit#gid=0), maps (https://docs.google.com/a/betanyc.us/spreadsheets/d/1R7O_FZLNB8VV5eoPDNATb-f0njjUsJwmz22cT_OB3fw/edit#gid=1788958340), & tools (https://docs.google.com/a/betanyc.us/spreadsheets/d/1R7O_FZLNB8VV5eoPDNATb-f0njjUsJwmz22cT_OB3fw/edit#gid=793646099)
• Community projects in process - projects.beta.nyc (http://projects.beta.nyc/)

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Event Partners:

The Code for America Brigade program 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).