In our next meetup, we’ll cover practices and methods in teaching digital skills in an ESL context. We will have Roberto Pang from the CyberNavigator program of the Chicago Public Library talk about their work in this area. Stephen Alderson, Director of Adult…
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CivicLab at OpenGovHack Night
At this week’s OpenGov Hack Night, Benjamin Sugar came down to talk to us about CivicLab.
BikeChi App – Divvy Data on What People Want
During a recent OpenGov Hack Night, transportation guru Steve Vance demonstrated a simple app that lets you download all the places are people are suggesting new Divvy stations.
Livestream: Inaugural Meeting of the Health Data Liberation Group
In our first meetup, we’ll do some self-organizing and get to know each other better. Our goal is to get as many health data workers and thinkers together and work on how to liberate more and more health data to…
OpenStreetMap 101 with Ian Dees
In anticipation for the OpenStreetMap winter editathon this weekend, we sat down with Ian Dees for a crash course in using OpenStreetMap.
PDF Liberation Hackathon Resource Page
In preparation for the PDF Liberation Hackathon, we’re putting together a short how-to of different PDF Liberation tools starting with Tabula – a tool to extract tables of data from PDFs. Tabula Tabula is an open source tool built by Manuel…
