HACKATHON: A hackathon is a gathering of developers to collaboratively build software. They typically last between 24 and 48 hours, although shorter meetings are also possible.
~ From O’Reilly’s Civic Apps Competition Handbook
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NYC Hackathon Event Overview Example
This is a great short video that provides an overview of what happens at a typical Civic Hackathon Event. Rachel Sterne, Chief Digital Officer, City of New York, explains their first ever New York Hackathon.
Code for America Brigade, a civic technology movement across America
Kevin Curry, program director for Code for America Brigade, discusses how designers and developer are joining the civic technology movement across America.
Longmont Hackathon City Council Presentation
Scott Converse, Pratt Street Associates, gives a presentation overview about the upcoming Longmont Hackathon Event scheduled for April 2013 to the Longmont City Council during the Tuesday, January 8, 2013 council meeting.
Longmont Hackathon
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Kick-off Announcement
On Tuesday, January 8, 2013, city staff will be announcing the first ever Longmont Hackathon event during this City Council meeting.
If you cannot make it in person, you can watch our City Council Meeting via LongmontChannel8’s Live Streaming option at http://www.longmontchannel.com/. The meeting will start at 7:00 p.m. (MST) in the City Council Chambers, 350 Kimbark Street, Longmont, CO 80501.
Open Forum – Hackathon Idea Gathering
We are seeking project ideas that will help to create better interfaces to our city government by utilizing the open data sets and provide these ideas to the developers who will be attending.
Let us know you’ll be joining us for the Open Forum on Tuesday, January 15 by RSVP’g at our Meet-up.
Details will be posted here on this site as we continue to organize this event.
Register or Volunteer
If you’re interested in volunteering, please register to volunteer.
If you’re interested in participating in the event, please register to participate.