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.
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Hack Night Live: Divvy Bike Winner Announcement
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
OpenGov Hack Night: Zoning in Chicago
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.
Hack Night Live: Zoning in Chicago
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
Hack Night Live: CIO Brenna Berman talks Procurement
City of Chicago CIO Brenna Berman will host a Q&A session on technology procurement, similar to last month’s OpenGov Chicago meetup (here’s the meeting notes).
The City is looking for ways to improve the procurement process and lower barriers to entry for small and medium businesses. If you have questions, feedback or suggestions on how Chicago buys technology, this is your chance speak up!
We’ll be live streaming tonight’s event on via Google Hangouts. If you have questions, feel free to tweet us at @SmartChicago or via the Hangouts Q&A feature.
OpenGov Hack Night: Apps that Advocate
During the OpenGov Hack Night on March 4th, the political lobbying group FWD.US presented on how they’re using digital tools to adovcate their goals to elected officials.
FWD.US joins a number of efforts in the civic innovation community to use technology to engage elected officials.
