Thank you to The Longmont Channel 8 that spent hours at the Hackathon Event recording and capturing the highlights and putting together this wonderful video so we can share them with you.
Thank you to The Longmont Channel 8 that spent hours at the Hackathon Event recording and capturing the highlights and putting together this wonderful video so we can share them with you.
Payton Peterson of PCProVideo was a great help during our Longmont Hackathon. He and his team setup their equipment at Skyline High School to live stream our event and also record videos of the app presentations, the awards ceremony and took time to walk around and conduct various interviews with hackathon committee staff, a few council members and developers.
To view a specific video clip, click on “Playlist LongmontHackathon (13 videos)” and you’ll see more options or visit the City’s Youtube Channel.
Group photo from the Longmont Hackathon. Several of our Sponsors, City Council Members, Committee staff, and developers who won awards for their applications.
The first Longmont Civic Hackathon event held this weekend has come to a successful close. The event, held over the course of 3 days, began Friday evening and ended Sunday afternoon. During the event we checked-in 56 people, of those were 10 Adult developers and 11 Youth developers (most, if not all, were from St. Vrain Valley School District).
There were eight (8) different apps that were show and many were completed to a point that they were able to be demonstrated to the audience. Amazingly, all 8 apps won an award, and one app, Civic Engage won two awards. The first place award went to the event’s youngest developer, Jackson Roberts for his Longmont Events app. Congratulations to all who won.
If you attended our event, we would love to have you complete our Evaluation form to provide us with some feedback.
If you were a developer, we’d also like to have you share with us what programming languages, frameworks and other tools that you were utilizing during the weekend to build your app.
If we’re not broadcasting live, please choose from the “select playlist” dropdown “Longmont Hackathon 2013” to see previously recorded shows.
The Longmont Hackathon Event is almost here. For several weeks now, city staff have been working on identifying, collecting, and publishing numerous data sets for use by the developers who will be attending the event and looking for data to use in their apps.
There are now a total of 25 data sets published and ready for use on OpenColorado.org. The city is one of several participating organizations using this free resource to provide open access to government information.
Out of the 25 data sets that Longmont has uploaded to OpenColorado.org, 20 of those have links to the REST Services which are directly connected to the City’s GIS data which resides on ArcGis.com. To access these ArcGIS Map services directly, visit the City of Longmont area on OpenColorado.org at http://data.opencolorado.org/group/city-of-longmont or on ArcGIS.com at http://www.arcgis.com/home/search.html?q=longmonthackathon&t=content.
If you are driving into Longmont, we have provided you directions and an image of the Skyline property so you will know where to park and which entrance to use when you arrive.
There is a large parking lot on the East side of the building. There is a one-way entrance on the far East to enter into the parking lot. The main entrance to the building is on the West side of the parking lot.
Get directions via a Google Map Link to 600 East Mountain View Avenue, Longmont, CO
The City has been working on uploading various data sets to ArcGIS.com and on OpenColorado.org. We have several data sets uploaded now in both areas and will be adding more over the next few days. Not all of our data will be accessible through an API, but we do have quite a few. To see our listing, please visit http://longmonthackathon.com/data-sets/ for details.
A big “Thank you” to Kristy “GovGirl” Fifelski who took some time this week to help us promote our first Hackathon by including us in her recent video update.
Visit the article at http://www.govtech.com/govgirl/Hackergov-and-Trending-Topics.html