Monthly Meetup

As usual, this meeting will be an open lab time where we will work on projects. Come with ideas for projects, things you may have already started, or we'll try to match you up with an already existing project or idea.

Please comment below any ideas or projects you might want to work on.

Gov IT Symposium Review and Geo:Code 2016 Preview

Last month Open Twin Cities helped to organize the Open Government Summit at the Minnesota Government IT Symposium (http://www.mngts.org/itsym/). There was a lot of great discussion among Minnesota government IT professionals, including some great responses to a few open questions we put up on the walls:

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We're bringing these responses to the meetup, so please come by to find out what Minnesota government IT professionals have to say about civic tech, open data, and open government.

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In addition to the IT Symposium, we're also going to talk about Geo:Code 2016 (http://www.hennepin.us/geocode), the metro-wide civic tech event coming up in March. This will be the second annual Geo:Code hosted by Hennepin County with help from Open Twin Cities, and this year, a whole bunch of government, academic, and non-profit partners. Come find out what Geo:Code is all about, and talk about some ideas for issues to focus on during the event.

Code of Conduct

As with any event hosted by Open Twin Cities, our Code of Conduct (http://opentwincities.org/about/code-of-conduct/) will be in effect during this meetup. Respect each other. Don't be a jerk.

Projects

Our working projects at this moment are:

• Adopt-A-Tree (https://github.com/ballPointPenguin/adopt-a-tree) - Help Trees Stay Alive in the Summer;

• CoEventer (https://github.com/campuscodefest/ccf) - Our Ideation & Volunteer Tool;

• Visualizing Minneapolis Building Energy Efficiency (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/twin-cities-brigade/fCqgHHATNw8);

• Your Next Representative (https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/twin-cities-brigade/SbX4B_Fhp7w);

• our project and community management discussions (http://bit.ly/manageOTC);

• issues with the Open Twin Cities website (https://github.com/OpenTwinCities/opentwincities.github.com); or

• the Open Twin Cities Projects Page (http://opentwincities.org/projects).