Civic Hack Night and Map Night feat Nicole Martinelli, Journalist
Details
This hack & map night we will have Nicole Martinelli, journalist, with a special interest in data and maps.
Nicole is currently working on (http://www.resiliencymaps.org), a community, open source project making maps that are standardized and available offline with OpenStreetMap.
Twitter: (https://twitter.com/nmar)
Check out her website (http://zoomata.com) for more articles.
• What we'll do
Code for San José is a volunteer organization made up of makers, designers, developers, and subject matter experts who come together to use tech to solve civic problems.
All are welcome! Technical skills are not required to contribute.
We hold Civic Hack Nights twice a month where members use their skills to make San José, and the South Bay, a better place.
• Food will be provided thanks to our generous sponsor Microsoft. Bring your ideas, enthusiasm, and if you can, a laptop.
• Learn more about our current projects (http://www.codeforsanjose.com/docs/projects/).
• We are meeting at ActionSpot co-working studio and startup incubator https://www.myactionspot.com/membership.html
• Parking and where we meet: https://www.myactionspot.com/parking.html
Agenda:
• 6:30 - 6:45 PM: Pizza and networking
• 6:45 - 7:00 PM: Welcome, Updates, and Speaker Introduction
• 7:00 - 7:25 PM: Speaker: Nicole Martinelli on ResiliencyMaps.org
• 7:25 - 7:30 PM: Group Intros
• 7:30 - 8:45 PM: Work on projects in teams or as individuals
• 8:45 - 8:50 PM: Each team share progress with group
• 8:50 - 9:00 PM: Wrap Up
We've found it helpful to be clear on what Code for San José is, and what it isn't:
Code for San José is:
• a place people gather to work on open-source projects that benefit our community
Code for San José isn't:
• an organization that teaches people how to code
• always prepared to pair you with a project on day one. That said, it's a good idea to look through the open data (http://www.codeforsanjose.com/docs/data/) available to us and our projects (http://www.codeforsanjose.com/docs/projects/), and start thinking about a project you might find interesting to work on.
Before the meeting:
• Check out our updated list of projects (http://www.codeforsanjose.com/docs/projects/) and their needs.
• Join the slack channel (https://slackin-c4sj.herokuapp.com/) and check out our github (http://github.com/codeforsanjose).
• At your first meeting, we'll give you an overview of the organization and tell you about on-going projects some members are leading.
• What to bring
If you have a laptop, bring it. Bring a notebook, pencil/pen
• Important to know
Code of Conduct: ( http://www.codeforsanjose.com/codeofconduct.html ).