Name: Civic Hack Night
Start: 2017-11-16T18:45:00-06:00
End: 2017-11-16T21:00:00-06:00
Location: Capital Factory

UPDATE: We are on the first floor of Capitol Factory. Please call or text Sarah Shields if you need help: 718-216-5518

Come to Civic Hack Night if you’re looking to join a project, pitch a project, or learn more about what civic hacking is and how you can help lead the civic tech movement in Austin, TX.

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EVENT AGENDA

6:45pm 🌮💬 Grab food & chat with a neighbor
This hack night we will have Chipotle tacos and chips and guac. We order vegan and vegetarian options and provide some drinks. Donations appreciated but not required.

7:00pm 👋🏼👋🏼 Intros
We'll go around and say hi to our neighbors.

7:05pm 📢📢 Announcements
We give updates on Open Austin and call out upcoming events and opportunities. Community announcements welcome too.

7:10pm 📝 📚 Project Roll Call
During this time people with active projects, new project ideas, or discussion group topics will come to the front and share with the group.

• Have a project or discussion group? Reach out and let us know! We can help promote your project or discussion topic prior to the event.

• Project 1 | Open Data Census review (https://github.com/open-austin/project-ideas/issues/67)

• Project 2 | Revival of MaptimeATX

• Project 3 | Redistricting information App (https://github.com/open-austin/project-ideas/issues/118)

•Looking for a project? Let us know you're coming by saying hey and telling us about your skills and interests in the comments or on Slack (https://slack.open-austin.org/). This can help us match you to a project.

7:20pm 👩🏽‍💻👨🏻‍🏫 Breakout groups
There are a few different types of groups that form in Open Austin Hack nights.

• Project Groups: Groups of people working to complete a project.

• Learning & Discussion Groups: Groups formed around a subject or activity.

• Civic Hacking 101: Newbies to the organization will learn about Open Austin, open data, and civic hacking in Austin, Texas.

8:45pm 🔖✨👋🏼 Share Out, Tidy up, and Leave
Take notes of the work done, clean up your area, and say goodbye to friends.

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💻 Please bring a laptop and be prepared to work!
If you have any questions, please contact Open-Austin at info@open-austin.org.

If you have a project idea or are looking for a civic project to work on, check out our idea repository:
https://github.com/open-austin/project-ideas/issues .

Join our slack and say hello
https://slack.open-austin.org/

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About Civic Hack Night
Civic Hack Night is a study hall environment to get work done with a supportive and connected community. We begin every meeting with announcements, introductions, and then the group breaks out into project or learning teams.

Civic Hack nights are where we give Civic Hacking 101 presentation for newcomers. During this presentation, you will learn more about Open Austin, open data, open government, and civic hacking and technology.

We encourage developers, designers, writers, data analyst, policy wonks, government workers, and citizens of all skill levels to join us.

We usually host 2 hack nights a month.For more information, visit our website: http://www.open-austin.org (http://www.open-austin.org/)

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