On April 22nd, Dominique Williams from LISC Chicago and our own Josh Kalov and Christopher Whitaker dropped by the OpenGov Hack Night to talk about the results of the ACA Outreach App.
Chi Hack Night
Chi Hack Night t is Chicago’s weekly event to build, share, and learn about civic tech. Smart Chicago livestreams this event and writes up blog posts about the presentations on a regular basis.
GitHub’s Ben Balter at OpenGov Hack Night
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.
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.
Largelots.org – A working app for the Englewood Neighborhood
On the OpenGov Hack Night on April 15th, Demond Drummer presented at OpenGov Hack Night about the Large Lots Program. This city program is designed to allow residents to purchase vacant lots in their neighborhoods for just a single dollar in an effort to help revitalize the neighborhood.
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
