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A weekly round-up of community updates, upcoming events, featured news, projects and datasets — everything you need to know about NYC’s civic, public interest technology, and service design community.
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Events
- August 4, 2026 · 12:00 pmIntroduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI 101) with Council District 10 & BetaNYCVirtual
- August 10, 2026 · 6:00 pmDiscovering NYC Open Data: Online Session: August 2026Virtual
- August 20, 2026 · 5:45 pmCivic Tech Summer ShowcaseBrooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Heights Branch
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Community Code of Conduct
Equality and community equity are core to building a vibrant civic hacker, civic technology, public interest technology, open data, and service design community. These documents are our community foundation — living documents we review annually with public input from staff.