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Biweekly Civic Hack Night

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Dries Van R. and 4 others
Biweekly Civic Hack Night

Details

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 - new and ongoing projects:

I. OpenScore (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openscore/openscore-join-the-sheet-music-revolution): Bring sheet music to life by creating digital interactive editions.

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. Sprout.City (https://github.com/sproutscity/sproutscity-website): new community currency in the City of Brussels to promote prosocial behavior

  • 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
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