CityCamp this Saturday @ NextSpace

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mrosas's picture

Greetings Santa Cruz Drupalers,

I am passing along an invitation from Peter Koht at the city for an event happening this Saturday. It includes a code for free admission. As you all know Drupal can often be a great platform for initiatives such as this and I know at least one of the Code for America fellows is a Drupal geek. Would love to see some of you there if you can make it!

Cheers, Margaret


I wanted to extend a personal invite and a discount code for this weekend’s inaugural CityCamp, being hosted at NextSpace this Saturday. Join the Code for America Fellows, City employees, and fellow designers and techies for a day as we work to design and build civic apps that make your local government more accessible, transparent and easier to understand.

It’s part of a national series of events called Code Across America, put on by Code for America to help bridge the technology gulf between City Hall and the kinds of work that so many Spacers do on a daily basis. It’s also the first public recruitment for what Code forAmerica is calling its “brigade,” which brings together groups of civic hackers in cities across the country, to customize and deploy civic apps locally.

This CityCamp is built around the launch of the City of Santa Cruz’s first catalogue of open data, which is up (alpha) at http://data.innovatesantacruz.com/ The city will be releasing data sets around real estate and finance, water quality and transportation info, as well as mapping resources, and we need your help to make this information accessible, informative and useful for everyone who lives in Santa Cruz.

So if you’re an urbanist, civic hacker, city representative, developer, designer, content strategist — really anyone with the passion to make their city better -- we want to see you on Saturday morning! Breakfast, lunch and coffee are on us, there will be City people and our Code for America fellows, Ruthie, Jim and Tamara and a whole stack of data to mess with. We hope it’s a day to remember.

I’ve set up a discount code for the Geeks to waive the $10 entrance fee, just punch in “geeky” at checkout when you visit http://santacruzcitycamp.eventbrite.com/

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Looks great!

Kristen Pol's picture

I'm booked up on Saturday but this looks like it will be cool.

Have fun!
Kristen

Sorry to miss this, I am out

pferlito's picture

Sorry to miss this, I am out of town this weekend.

Santa Cruz

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