Neighbors,
Thanks for coming to last night’s hacknight and #CivicFreeSchool. It was fun meeting many new faces and experimenting with our community engagement framework. For those of you who missed last night, this is all the news fit to scan!
Here’s a brief recap of things you should note:
* Calls to action / Notes
* Upcoming Events
* Slides
* Projects
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** Calls to action / Notes **
+ Last year, we called on NYC.gov to adopt a “We the People” petition site. Yesterday, CM Vacca introduced such a bill. We are super excited to have an opportunity to work with the Council and bring about 21st century tools. Here’s a brief NY Times article about the proposed legislation. More to come shortly.
+ SUNDAY DEADLINE FOR TWO BETANYC CALLS TO ACTION
* We are growing our community leadership team and want you to join us.
* We’ve penned our first diversity and desires report and need you to help us think about the future goals for NYC’s civic technology and design ecosystem.
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** Upcoming Events **
* Tues, Sep 16 – NYC BigApps Award Ceremony
* Wed, Sep 17 – BetaNYC Hacknight & #CivicFreeSchool
** Peer Class – John Thornton – MTASanitizer, a proxy server for GTFS data
** Peer Class – IBM’s BlueMix, cloud based, Open Source, development and runtime environment.
* Thurs, Sept 28 – GitHub’s Patchwork Night
* Sat, Nov 8 – Save the date for Civic Design Camp!!
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** Slides **
* Leaflet Demo Repo
* Into to NYC’s Civic Hacking
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** Projects **
* Open Referral
* Budget Buddy – https://github.com/BetaNYC/budgetBuddy or http://budgetbuddy.herokuapp.com