Akron Civic Hackathon - Day 1/2

Meetup information:
http://hackforchange.org/events/akron-civic-hackathon/

I am using meetup.com for RSVPs mostly, but copy-pasting meetup details here for convenience from hackforchange as well:

Thanks

I'd like to thank the following for making this event a reality:

National Day of Civic Hacking: http://hackforchange.org (Indirectly all partners and sponsors there)Knight Foundation: http://www.knightfoundation.org
OSC Tech Lab: http://www.osctechlab.com
SYN/HAK: http://www.synhak.org
City of Akron's Economic Development Department: http://www.akronohio.gov/cms/economic_development/index.html
National Day of Civic Hacking National Day of Civic Hacking is an international event that will take place May 31 – June 1, 2014, in cities around the world. The event will bring together citizens, software developers, and entrepreneurs to collaboratively create, build, and invent new solutions using publicly-released data, code and technology to improve our communities and the governments that serve them. Anyone can participate; you don’t have to be an expert in technology, you just have to care about your neighborhood and community.

Globally, a few challenges have been made available for event attendees. Learn more about them here:

http://hackforchange.org/challenges/

It wouldn't be a hackathon without data. Find lots of data at these fine places:

http://hackforchange.org/data/
http://www.data.gov
Keep up with the latest news here:

http://hackforchange.org/blog/ Akron Civic Hackathon

Greetings, this is G (http://gsvolt.wordpress.com/about-2).

Akron Civic Hackathon is being organized by me in downtown Akron.

This is a follow up to my own call for help (http://gsvolt.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/two-excitements-in-may-2014-call-for-help/) for the month of May 2014 I published on May 6th. I am excited after all.

Since my call for help, I have found an overwhelming response from the Akron community.

City of Akron Economic Development Department During this event we will be welcoming the Economic Department of Akron that has agreed to participate in the hackathon with their data problem. It involves helping them creating a database that would allow their raw information to be used by other internal tools. (More details to follow).

As of 5/12, this is the only governmental problem that has been committed for this hackathon. I am in pursuit of many more problems until the event is organized. So, if you the reader are a manager at any governmental office at the city, township, county level, please contact me at gsvolt7@gmail.com at your convenience.

CharityPins When we created SYN/HAK, a 501c3 charitable makerspace in downtown Akron we did not have a way to find other charities around us similar to google maps. This project will be hacked on together during the event so that we can eventually have such a tool nationally.

Other projects Attendees are invited to bring their own civic projects so that we can all have a great time making civic change.

Event Schedule As I get more information about the specifics - food, swag etc. etc. I will update this section.

RSVP Please RSVP over on meetup so we can have an accurate head count:

Day One: https://www.meetup.com/synhak/events/182690342/

Day Two: https://www.meetup.com/synhak/events/182695552/ (https://www.meetup.com/synhak/events/182695552/)