Code for Seattle

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The Great American Civic Hack
Join Brigade this summer to make these repos better, together.

The Great American Civic Hack

Join Brigade this summer to make these repos better, together.

What we hacked: writeup and photos of projects worked on at June 1 civic hackathon

National Day of Civic Hacking is about a week away! In Seattle? Register for our June 1 civic hackathon: http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-Seattle/events/113040382/

SeattleWiki edit-a-thon: May 4 at Jigsaw Renaissance.

Seattle’s Hack for Change event is almost a month away! Help with preparations at this meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-Seattle/events/115836162/.

After the Hack for Change planning, we’ll transition to doing some editing of SeattleWiki.net.

Consider adding/editing info about your local makerspace, library, or park, or anything else about Seattle that interests you.

http://seattlewiki.net/Hackerspaces

http://seattlewiki.net/Libraries

http://seattlewiki.net/Parks

More information about Seattle’s Hack for Change event:

http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-Seattle/events/113040382/

http//codeforseattle.org/hackforchange

http://hackforchange.org/hack-change-seattle

Citizens, software developers, entrepreunuers, and government staff collaborating to solve challenges relevant to Seattle, WA using publicly-released data, code, and technology.

Sign up for the event on meetup.com.

Steve Spiker: Democratizing Knowledge with Oakland Wiki

stevespiker:

It’s a rare and wonderful thing to be so involved in a city like Oakland, to get to be part of so many awesome organizations, initiatives and projects and to have access to so much rich data and personal knowledge about our city. It’s also challenging to face the fact that so much of our…

Source: stevespiker

Latest SeattleWiki newsletter

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3 months ago

This weekend, SeattleWiki will be edited.

You can be an editor.

Maybe you love parks, and want to add descriptions and photos to the parks pages.

Or you’re a serious theatre nerd, and want to document all the places in Seattle to see a good show.

Perhaps you’ve got programming skills. We’ve got some ideas and some tools for importing data into SeattleWiki, and could use your help.

Or help document the governance of Seattle. Seriously. We haven’t even gotten started on that.

Maybe none of those options are interesting to you. You can add pretty much anything about Seattle to the wiki.

SeattleWiki is what you make it.

Come to C&P Coffee in West Seattle. Saturday, March 2, at noon.

If you can’t make it this time, check out Code for Seattle on meetup.com for upcoming events. Or, just edit pages from home. Or from a park. Or wherever.

Here’s a wiki page for the event. Or get details about the event on meetup or facebook.

Code for Seattle on Facebook

3 months ago

Code for Seattle meetup #1 happened!

Some of the cool outcomes of the meeting:

This group got started!

Like-minded folks gathered for the purpose of hacking apps that use local data and increase civic engagement. Check out the wiki page for the meetup and the Code for Seattle ideas page on SeattleWiki.net.

We made plans for sustaining the group.

We’ll be meeting the first and third Saturdays of each month. Next meetup is an edit-a-thon for SeattleWiki.net on March 2. Check out the event on meetup.com.

Coding happened!

Folks hacked on:

a ruby gem for the localwiki api
a node module for the localwiki api
a patch method for the node module request
and more! Add what you worked on to the wiki page for the meetup!

And the codeforseattle.org domain got set up!