City Scrapers Neighborhood Meetup! (Oakland)

At this event, we will continue building web scraping spiders with Python's Scrapy framework. Ben, our event host, is happy to help you familiarize yourself with the project, set up a new spider, and troubleshoot spiders-in-progress!

We will be meeting at the University of Pittsburgh's Bevier Engineering library, ground floor, room G-33. Ben is happy to grant guest access to the university wifi.

The City Bureau City Scrapers open source project supports the Documenters program for documenting public events, such as school board meetings, City Hall meetings, police board meetings, etc. We are hoping to build a community in Pittsburgh that can start building and supporting scrapers within the platform for the Pennsylvania region.

This should serve as a risk-free python/Git learning environment, a way to build a platform for public engagement in Pittsburgh, and an environment designed to prioritize a more diverse coding space than most civic tech groups.

If you have any questions or are interested, please feel free to email at bonnie.y.fan@gmail.com.

For more info on the Documenters program or the coding project, see below!

https://github.com/bonfirefan/city-scrapers-pitt
https://www.citybureau.org/city-scrapers/
https://www.citybureau.org/documenters

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