Vancouver Open Data Day Hackathon
Details
Celebrate International Open Data Day by participating in Vancouver’s Open Data Day Hackathon on March 5, 2016!
Hosted by Code for Canada (http://community.codeforcanada.org/) and the Open Data Society of BC (https://www.opendatabc.ca/).
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Mashing up one or more Open Data sets, create a meaningful open data app or visualization that citizens can use, creating a prototype to be demoed at the end of the day.
A competition panel will vote for the best prototypes under six different categories.
More details on the 2016 VODDay Hackathon available here: https://www.opendatabc.ca/pages/vodday-vancouver-open-data-day-hackathon
Schedule
8:30am-9:00am Registration and morning fuel
9:00am Welcoming remarks, idea pitching, team selection
9:30am-12:30pm Hackaway!
12:30pm-12:45 team update
12:45-1:30 lunch available
1:30-8pm Hackaway (snacks provided to keep you going)!
8pm-8:30pm demo time & competition panel voting!
8:30pm-9pm Hackathon awards, & sponsorship recognition
Details
• You don't need to use only BC Open Data sets, but it should play an important role.
• You may want to flesh out your idea before the hackathon.
• You may want to organize a team of awesome datageeks (developers, designers etc) beforehand.
• You can join a team with a cool idea on arrival, or recruit datageeks to create your own team.
• You need to create a prototype of your app or visualization for the competition panel to review.
• You will have an awesome time celebrating International Open Data Day in Vancouver BC!
• You may receive an awesome prize for under one of our six categories.
Who should attend
• Developers - who are super talented and can make people's dreams come true
• Designers - who love making data beautiful and meaningful and help people see their dreams come true
• GIS Gurus - who just love data and maps and are awsome
• Non-profits and other organizations - with with app ideas, problems to solve, and amazing stories to tell
• Librarians - who are awesome, have ideas, and love data
• Statisticians & data analysts - who just love working with data and see meaning where others see chaos
• Citizens - with app ideas, problems to solve, efficiencies to find
• Public servants - familiar with government data, or have great Gov2 ideas to bring to life
Prizes
Thanks to our amazing sponsors we will have cash prizes to be split between six winning teams. our competition categories are:
• Greatest social impact (benefit to citizens)
• Best transit focused app
• Best environmental focused app
• Best health focused app
• Best visualization or data journalism demonstration
A big thank you to our sponsors who have helped make this open data hackathon happen!
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