Kickoff Biweekly Civic Hack Night

Kickoff event of our biweekly civic hack nights.

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 Lab Brussels'
• Presentations of 4 running projects:

I. Open Food Data about actors, products and any related entity: Details here

II. 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/)

III. A brief introduction to OpenStreetMap Belgium (http://meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/) and our projects (http://www.osm.be/en/projects/) (presentation (https://www.dropbox.com/s/m62otrby0470ldu/openstreetmap_civichack.pptx?dl=1), 55mb!)

IV. An introduction to open government spending

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

19:00 - 21:00

• Time for action: contribute to one of the projects
• We'll try to bring 10 fine dust sensor kits by then
• PS: bring your own computer
• Onboarding new volunteers
• Grab a beer and meet other civic innovators