Civic Tech Toronto hacknight #61 with Andrés Aquino
Details
This week's speaker will be discussing the project Front Porch Forum (http://frontporchforum.com/). Front Porch Forum is a large hyper-local community building platform in Vermont. With over 20,000 households using Front Porch Forum, the platform has won accolades for its community building innovation. Andrés Aquino, managing partner at TWG will be talking about lessons learned during the project and how to build a successful community platform.
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The weekly civic tech hacknights bring together designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policymakers, students, communications strategists, and all other Torontonians who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable and equitable, through tech, data, and design. (Coders are welcome, but you don’t have to be a coder to contribute!)
Come and be part of it!
Agenda:
6:30-7: Welcome and intros
7-7:30: Presentation and Q&A/discussion with Andrés Aquino
7:30-9: Breakout groups (make something!)
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About the speaker:
Andres Aquino is from Front Porch Forum (http://frontporchforum.com/), a free community-building service that helps neighbours connect.
Civic Tech Toronto hacknight #61 with Andrés Aquino