GitHub’s Government Evangelist Ben Balter dropped by OpenGov Hack Night on May 6th to talk about how GitHub and open source software are changing the government does business.
1871
Smart Chicago is a founding tenant of 1871 and we have been active in helping make it a national center for civic innovation.
OpenGov Hack Night: Building a Vision for a Transit Future (Part 2)
This presentation was rather long, so we’ve split this into two posts. The first one has to do with the Transit Future policy itself. This post is about the process used to build the Transit Future site.
On the April 15th OpenGov Hack Night, Ed Oser with Center for Neighborhood Technologies and OpenCity Apps presented their work on both the Transit Future plan and the web app that shows it off.
The Vision for Our Transit Future Site was built by Juan-Pablo Valez and Nick Dorian using the Code for America Annual Report template as a base.
OpenGov Hack Night: Building a vision for a transit future (Part One)
This presentation was rather long-ish, so we’ve split this into two posts. The first one has to do with the Transit Future policy itself.
On the April 15th OpenGov Hack Night, Ed Oser with Center for Neighborhood Technologies and OpenCity Apps presented their work on both the Transit Future plan and the web app that shows it off.
Hack Night Live: Transit Future and LargeLots.org
At tonights (100th!) OpenGov Hack Night, we’ll have two speakers.
Ed Oser and Nick Doiron will present Transit Future, a vision of an expanded Chicago public transportation system led by the Center for Neighborhood Technology and Active Transportation Alliancewith a visualization by Open City.
Demond Drummer from Teamwork Englewood will talk about LargeLots.org, an app built by DataMade and LISC Chicago for navigating the City’s program for selling vacant lots on the South Side for $1.
Our live coverage and live stream will start at 6:15pm
Hack Night Live: The Chicago Tribune Elections Website
At tonight’s OpenGovHackNight – David Eads returns to the hack night to talk about his work on the Chicago Tribune Elections Website. He’ll go over their use of the new Reuters election data service and how they integrated the content into print. You can follow along with David with his slide deck here.
Our coverage begins at 6:15pm Chicago-time.
Illinois Public Health Datapalooza Winners
Today the State of Illinois announced the winners of the Illinois Public Health Datapalooza Challenge – an Illinois Department of Public Health Challenge designed to highlight the availability and benefit of Open Health Data from government agencies. The challenge was part of a two-day Illinois Public Health Datapalooza event focused on developing and sharing innovative ways to work with open health data in an effort to drive innovation and create better health outcomes in Illinois and in cities and states across the country.
