At tonight’s Chicago OpenGov Hack Night, Charlie Catlett from The University of Chicago and Doug Pancoast from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will talk about a new partnership with the City of Chicago to prototype a network of urban sensing and embedded…
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National Day of Civic Hacking Takeaway One: Food Pantry App
This is the first in a series of posts about takeaways learned from National Day of Civic Hacking in Chicago. These posts will highlight problem sets, current efforts, and how to get involved in future efforts. Of all the topics…
Livestream: OpenScience Chicago
Join us at 6PM Central time for a livestream of the OpenGovChicago meetup on Open Science. The stream will be available right here in this blog post. Also, please help with the meeting minutes— it’s a group effort! This is…
Hack Night Live! Tracking the Built Environment with Building Permits
At tonight’s OpenGov Hack Night, we’ll have two speakers. Tina Fassett from the DePaul Institute for Housing Studies will discuss her analysis of demolitions in Chicago from 2004 to 2012. AND Steve Vance will talk about Licensed Chicago Contractors, his…
Englewood.codes builds their own IDE with the Help of North Central College
At the OpenGov Hack Night on June 3rd, Englewood Codes and North Central College presented their work on an integrated developer environment for Englewood students to use during their program.
Hack Night Live: The Return Englewood Codes
Englewood Codes is back! For their undergraduate capstone project, computer science students at North Central College partnered with Teamwork Englewood to build a browser-based editor, or IDE, for Englewood Codes using the GitHub API. The team will talk about the…
