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Sunday
Sep 19, 2010
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Civic Webs: Community minded project night – Research Club Come collaborate on community oriented social projects and experiments! There will be whiteboards and computers, programming, sketching and discussion. Do you want to help make a map of all the businesses in Portland that have resident felines (business cats)? Help test a bicycle based synthesizer? Brainstorm solutions for human waste management? Create a way to access city council voting agendas? Have your own idea? All interested peoples of all areas of expertise are welcome. |
Sunday
Oct 10, 2010
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Civic Webs: Community minded project night – raSANTIAGO + Associates LLC (raSA) RaSantiago is located inside the Olympic Mills buildings. It's giant and mustard yellow. You literally cannot miss it. Come collaborate on community oriented social projects and experiments! There will be whiteboards and computers, programming, sketching and discussion. Do you want to help make a map of all the businesses in Portland that have resident felines (business cats)? Help test a bicycle based synthesizer? Brainstorm solutions for human waste management? Create a way to access city council voting agendas? Have your own idea? All interested peoples of all areas of expertise are welcome. |
Sunday
Oct 24, 2010
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Civic Webs: Community minded project night – Revelation Inc Revelation is located on the top floor of the Albers Milling Co Building. Take the elevator all the way up! Come collaborate on community oriented social projects and experiments! There will be whiteboards and computers, programming, sketching and discussion. Do you want to help make a map of all the businesses in Portland that have resident felines (business cats)? Help test a bicycle based synthesizer? Brainstorm solutions for human waste management? Create a way to access city council voting agendas? Have your own idea? All interested peoples of all areas of expertise are welcome. You're going to need to call Max to get into the building. |
Tuesday
Jul 20, 2010
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CivicApps Awards Ceremony – NedSpace Please note the new date, Tuesday, July 20th Join CivicApps, Microsoft and the Software Association of Oregon at NedSpace Downtown to network, socialize, and publicly honor the best app entries for the first round of apps development. The evening will culminate in the "Best of Show" award, recognizing the top app among the "blue ribbon" award winning apps for Most Useful, Most Appealing, Most Original, Best Use of Data and Civic Choice apps. Come meet with your fellow developers, entrepreneurs, potential investors/employers, and others. Register today to reserve your spot at http://civicappsawards.eventbrite.com Hors d'oeuvres, beverages, and a no-host bar will be available. |
Sunday
May 22, 2011
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CivicApps Hackathon - Mobile Apps for Education – PIE: Portland Incubator Experiment Come build apps for education with us! In partnership with the City of Portland and the Mayor’s Office, we’re honored to announce a CivicApps Hackathon dedicated exclusively to making mobile applications for education. There will be time in the morning for ideas and presentations from educators involved with the city, and brainstorming sessions and hacking in the afternoon. Register for the event here: http://loqi.me/2T0 Come build apps for education with us! In partnership with the City of Portland and the Mayor’s Office, we’re honored to announce a CivicApps Hackathon dedicated exclusively to making mobile applications for education. There will be time in the morning for ideas and presentations from educators involved with the city, and brainstorming sessions and hacking in the afternoon. Presenters and Judges *Skip Newberry, Economic Development Policy Advisor to Portland Mayor Sam Adams *Kali Ladd, Education Strategies Director for Portland Mayor Sam Adams *Sarah Singer,Project Director, High School System Design Initiative, Portland Public Schools *Karen Gray, Parkrose School District Superintendent *Matt Kinshella, Communications Director for @211info Who should come? Anyone with an interest in changing education through technology. This includes educators, concerned citizens, mobile developers, graphic and UX designers, and students. Teams will have a chance to present their projects at 6:30pm and will be judged by members of the City of Portland, Education District and local tech leaders. The three top projects will be automatically entered into the Webvisionary Awards in the Mobile Category. CivicApps will be kindly sponsoring lunch, and we are looking for sponsors for breakfast and refreshments. Please contact @caseorganic or @wv2011 to find out how you can support the event! Schedule 10:00-10:30Am – Doors Open, Breakfast, Coffee and Networking 10:30-11:15Am – Presentations from the city and education department on the current state of education, education technology, and what’s missing from education today. 11:15-11:30Am – Presentation of project ideas from attendees. 11:30-12:15Pm – Breakout discussion groups on project ideas and education topics. 12:15-1:15PM – Lunch, discussion and networking 1:15-6:00Pm – Project work and development begins in teams or as individuals. 6:00Pm – Project wrap-up and presentation preparation. Judges and audience arrives for judging and presentations. Beer is served. 6:30-7:30Pm – 5 minute presentations and judging. 7:30Pm – Event wrap-up, feedback and cleanup. CivicApps will be kindly sponsoring lunch, and we are looking for sponsors for breakfast and refreshments. Please contact @caseorganic or @wv2011 to find out how you can support the event! Don't forget to register so we can provide food! http://loqi.me/2T0 |
Thursday
May 27, 2010
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CivicApps Ideas Discussion – Portland Building CivicApps Ideas is a two-hour discussion of ideas and datasets between data providers and citizens. As a precursor to the CiviCode Day Event, scheduled one week later at Open Source Bridge, this meeting is your chance to initiate the discussion surrounding your project ideas and data needs with others. CivicIdeas Day is dedicated to the sharing of your ideas with your peers.
To learn more about the related CiviCode Day event, please see http://civicapps.eventbrite.com Registration is limited, so register today and connect with your peers! |
Thursday
Jun 3, 2010
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CiviCode Day Event (redux) – Portland Art Museum, Mark Building CiviCode Day will be co-located with the Hacker Lounge of Open Source Bridge at the Portland Art Museum, in the Sunken Ballroom of the Mark Building. An un-conference styled event, kicked off with a keynote address by our Mayor, Sam Adams, followed by brief introductions of project ideas in the morning, then breaking out into groups for the remainder of the day for a "hack-a-thon" with your peers. The last hour or so will be reserved for a show-and-tell of our work. CiviCode Day is dedicated to the sharing and mashing up of your ideas with your peers.
CiviCode Day will be attended by developers, collaboration seekers, data providers, contest organizers, and a wide array of local business people looking to learn more about the CivicApps.org project. To learn more about the Open Source Bridge Conference, please see http://opensourcebridge.org Registration is limited, so register today and connect with your peers! |
Friday
May 13, 2011
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Open Gov West '11 through Jupiter Hotel & Bossanova Ballroom CONFERENCE Open Gov West 2011 is a two-day nonprofit conference being held at the Jupiter Hotel in Portland May 13-14, 2011. OGW '11 is designed to bring the Northwest region together to explore opportunities to open government, increase civic engagement, and coordinate projects across governments. Now is the time to move from old models and technology to finding innovative, cost efficient, and transparent methods for accomplishing government’s core missions.The conference exposes attendees to new ideas, technologies, practices, and partnerships. The conference’s goal is to help your organization build relationships and gain insights which help you build a more transparent, engaged government. APPS CONTEST The conference also includes an app development contest on Day Two, May 14. Developers entering the Open Gov West Cross-Gov Apps Contest have the opportunity to transform government data into useful information accessible to the masses—and to win prizes like iPads, marketing assistance, and technology prize packs. Governments from across the Pacific Northwest will send representatives from their own data.gov sites to offer developers advice and support, making this a unique opportunity for developers to interact directly with government data providers while building the applications. The competition will run in the style of a code-a-thon, in which development begins Saturday, May 14 at 9 a.m. with a 7 p.m. deadline, with winners announced that evening. Sponsor Tropo will be providing $1,000 in developer scholarships and free development kits for participants. Developers are encouraged to purchase a ticket through Open Gov West or apply for developer scholarships. For more information: http://www.opengovwest.org/events/conference/opengovwest-11/1304-2/ For more information, please visit opengovwest.org. To register, please visit opengovwest.eventbrite.com. |
Open Gov West Conference through Jupiter Hotel & Bossanova Ballroom Attend the Open Gov West conference in PDX, Fri/Sat May 13-14. Two days to bring a region together, exploring opportunities to open government, increase civic engagement, and coordinate projects across governments. Now is the time to move from old models and technology to finding innovative, cost efficient, and transparent methods for accomplishing government’s core missions. Open Gov West (OGW) exposes attendees to new ideas, technologies, practices, and partnerships. The conference’s goal is to help your organization build relationships and gain insights which help you build a more transparent, engaged government. See http://ogw.ticketleap.com/open-gov-west-2011 for registration info. |
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Sunday
Oct 3, 2010
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Open Government Hackathon – NedSpace Old Town Join us after CyborgCamp Portland on Sunday, October 3rd, for an 8-hour hackathon to see who can build the best open government application in just one day! Participation is free and open to anyone, we just ask that you register in advance so we know how many individuals or teams we need to accommodate. Schedule
Who should attend?Ruby, Python, PHP, web developers, coders and anyone who has a passion to code, hack or kluge applications that will free (or otherwise enhance) the accessibility and usefulness of government-shared data. Although the sprint takes place On Oct 3rd after CyborgCamp Portland, you don't have to be attending the conference to join us! LocationNedSpace Old Town, 117 NW 5th between Couch and Davis. Backspace is right downstairs, Davis Street Tavern is right next door, there's a parking lot across the street, and it's right on the MAX line. What's going to happen?There will be organizers on-site to help get things rolling. At 5:30pm, each app will be evaluated by the Hackathon Partners and prizes will be awarded to those teams or individuals that develop the best applications in the 8 hour. Participants need not show up right at 8:30am, but those who do will have the most time to code! Hackathon PartnersPartners are companies and organizations that provide tools or services that can enhance open government apps. They're also providing the prizes and will be choosing the winners. |
Wednesday
Jun 16, 2010
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Open Government Meetup – OpenSourcery A gathering of people interested in Open Government, Gov 2.0, and ways that technology may expand and improve civic engagement. All are welcome! Examples of such initiatives include Portland's CivicApps. http://www.civicapps.org/ We're continuing the conversations from the Open Gov West conference held in Seattle in March (http://opengovwest.org/) by taking them on the road to meetups across the West Coast. Open Gov West brought together a diverse range of government folks, electeds, nonprofits, citizens, and technologists to discuss open government ideas and strategies. Please register: http://ogwpdx061610.eventbrite.com/ |
Saturday
Jun 1, 2013
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Oregon Day of Civic Hacking - Portland, Oregon – Thetus Corporation "The White House wants you to hack for a better America. Today it announced the National Day Of Civic Hacking on June 1-2 where many government agencies will liberate data for citizens across the U.S. to use to build tech that helps their communities. Twenty-seven cities have planned events where hackers will have access to data from The Department of Labor, The Census Bureau, and even NASA’s space stats. The National Day Of Civic Hacking is a joint project from the U.S. government, Code For America, Random Hacks Of Kindness, and Eric Schmidt’s early-stage venture fund Innovation Endeavors. Part of a growing initiative to increase government transparency and civic engagement,..." from http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/22/national-day-of-civic-hacking/ |
Saturday
Sep 25, 2010
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WhereCampPDX: CivicApps Hacking and Pizza Night – PIE: Portland Incubator Experiment Come hang out at PIE and work on software using Portland open data! |