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.

New Coders at OpenGov Hack Night

Jessica Waller (Intern, Emeritus)

This summer, Smart Chicago Collaborative is participating in the IgniTech Summer Program. Smart Chicago Interns Jessica Waller and Lissette Lagunas will be attending the OpenGov Hack Nights and writing about the different breakout groups.  – Dan O’Neil 

New Coders at OpenGov Hack Night

Every Tuesday evening from 6 – 8 pm, people in the technology industry or wanting to join the industry come together for Open Gov Hack Night at 1871 in downtown Chicago. OpenGov Hack Night is broken into a presentation followed by breakout groups. If you’re new to programming and want to learn how to code, open source guru Karl Fogel and Englewood Codes Director Demond Drummer are leading the New Coders breakout group to help you out.

New Coders – Karl Fogel & Demond Drummer 
OpenGov Hack Night 1/21/13

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Tonight on Smart Chicago Live: The City of Big Data at OpenGov Hack Night

Christopher Whitaker

At tonight’s OpenGov Hack Night, Bo Rodda will talk about his work with the interactive 3D city model at the City of Big Data Exhibition.

Rodda is currently working on a platform to allow anyone to submit their own visualization for public display. Learn more tonight at hack night (every Tuesday at 6:00pm at 1871) or by tuning into our live stream at smartchicagocollaborative.org/live.

Chicago: City of Big Data

City of Big Data exhibit at the Chicago Architecture Foundation. Photo by John Tolva

We’ll post the live stream below the fold at start time!

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