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.
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.
On April 1st, David Eads from the Chicago Tribune’s Tribapps Team presented their Election Center Site at the Chicago OpenGov Hack Night. You can see all of Eads’ slides here.
At tonight’s OpenGov Hack Night, Divvy will be showing off the winning apps from the Divvy Data Challenge. We’ll be live streaming the demos starting about 6:15pm.
Riding Divvy in a suit, photo by Steve Vance
Here’s Elliot Greenberger from Divvy and talking about the challenge at a previous hack night.
Tune in to the live stream at 6:15pm and follow along on twitter at #chihacknight
At the Chicago OpenGov Hack Night on March 18th, urban policy blogger Daniel Hertz talked about the downsides of low-density zoning in Chicago, and how he uses open zoning data to understand the built environment.
Urban policy blogger Daniel Hertz will talk about the downsides of low-density zoning in Chicago, and how he uses open zoning data to understand the built environment.
Our live stream coverage will start at 6:15pm
For the OpenGovHack Night for Tuesday March 11th, Chicago CIO Brenna Berman spoke about the city’s initiative to modernize IT procurement.
This was the second time that the CIO has spoken to the civic technology community about the IT procurement process. Berman also spoke at last month’s OpenGov Chicago Meeting— here’s notes from that.
