Biweekly Civic Hack Night

It always goes the same way: short introductory presentations and updates on new and running open projects (30 min) followed by action (2 h).

AGENDA

18:30 - 19:00

• Welcome + introduction to the idea of 'Civic Labs' and Open Knowledge Belgium (http://www.openknowledge.be/)
• Presentations - 4 projects:

I. An introduction to complementary community currencies (http://community-currency.info/en/category/currencies/europe/belgium/) & the concept of group currency (https://groupcurrency.org/) to promote prosocial behavior (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosocial_behavior), inspired by the Basic Income Café (http://www.cafe-grundeinkommen.org/)in Berlin

II. Open Food Data about actors, products and any related entity: Details here (https://github.com/openthings-cc/FarmFood-Interoperability)

III. Fine dust sensors to measure air quality in Brussels: Instructions (http://luftdaten.info/feinstaubsensor-bauen/) & map (http://deutschland.maps.luftdaten.info/) - project initiated by OK Lab Stuttgart (https://codefor.de/stuttgart/)

IV. Wiki Loves Public Spaces (https://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Public_Spaces)

V. Open Bike Data & Mapping with OpenStreetMap (https://openbikedatamapping.eventbrite.com/), as part of open Summer of code 2017 (http://2017.summerofcode.be/), July 21st at BeCentral.

• Discussion: Any other open projects you want to work on?

19:00 - 21:00

• Time for action: contribute to one of the projects
  Bring your own computer
• Onboarding new volunteers
• Grab a beer and meet other civic innovators