[sudo-discuss] Alameda County Apps Challenge

[Paul Ivanov]

Hey gang,

this just got sent to alumni of the Albany Civics Academy, and
looks relevant to this group, so I thought I'd pass it along.

Camille Crittenden, on 2013-04-12 16:57,  wrote:
> Dear Chelle and fellow Civics Academy alumni!
> I write to let you know about an upcoming event that may
> interest you or your friends and colleagues. Alameda County is
> making a number of data sets available these days. One of the
> county supervisors is organizing a hackathon to invite
> programmers, designers, civic groups and interested community
> members to create useful apps based on this data. The event
> will be April 27 at Berkeley High School. See
> http://code.acgov.org/ for more information and
> http://acappschallenge2013.eventbrite.com/ to register.
> 
> 
> I would be interested to explore whether Albany would like to
> host a similar event at some point. I bet we could get some
> enterprising students from AHS or other community members to
> come up with good ideas for using Albany data. (In my day job I
> direct the Data and Democracy Initiative at CITRIS, based at
> UCB. The project is all about creating tools to foster civic
> engagement for social, economic, and political issues. More
> info is on our website at http://democracy.citris-uc.org.)

best, 
-- 
Paul Ivanov
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