The Smart Chicago Collaborative is hosting Maptime Chicago next Thursday at our offices at the Chicago Community Trust (located at 225 N Michigan #2200). Their first event at the Trust will be a primer on how web maps work. Here’s the event…
At the last OpenGov Hack Night, Divvy announced the 2015 Divvy Data Challenge to celebrate a whole year’s worth of data becoming available. This is the second year that Divvy has issued a data challenge. Last year’s winner’s ranged from…
At this week’s Chicago OpenGov Hack Night, Robert Friedman and Kyla Williams spoke about the Hive Learning Network and the collaborative projects that we’re launching with the Hive Learning Network. Robert Friedman started the presentation off my talking about what the HIVE learning network…
Code and Cupcakes is a beginning coding workshop for mothers and daughters. In their workshops, start learning the basics of web development with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. They provide laptops for each mother/daughter pair to work with, wireless internet connection,…
On February 20th, the mRelief team will be hosting a Food Stamp Hackathon as part of Code for America’s Code Across event. mRelief.com empowers Chicagoans with a tool to access the welfare system in unprecedented ways by determining food stamp eligibility through…
At the next OpenGov Chicago Meetup, we’re continuing our new series that focuses on learning about and helping grassroots groups that interact with official government functions. Next up is Local School Councils of the Chicago Public Schools. There are hundreds of LSCs covering…
