While the Code for Americas fellows are in New Orleans working with city government on building a specialized system for citizens to use, they also plan on having a civic hackathon from Feb 24th and Feb 25th 2012. A hackathon is an event where people can get together and use technology and their collective skills to build solutions and solve problems around a common theme. What makes a civic hackathon special is that people can work on solving programming using tech that affect their community. Code for American New Orleans is hosting one of eight Civic Hackathons as part of Code Across America: A National Day of Civic Innovation, a nationwide event organized by Code for America.
Dennis Warren Ross revealed during a recent Net2NO meeting that the city will release new datasets for people to work with at the event. These datasets will allow developers, planners, and problem solvers to use city data for whatever project they will be working on.
Code For America Hackathon in New Orleans 2012
What Will The Hackathon Consist Of?
DAY ONE
Friday, Feb 24th: Kickoff Happy Hour at Capdeville
- 5pm: Registration, meet and greet
- 5:30pm: Releasing several new data sets from City Hall
- 6pm: Pitch potential project ideas
- 6:30pm: Form teams and mingle!
DAY TWO:
Saturday, Feb 25th: Hackathon at Launchpad
- 9am: Light breakfast (provided)
- 9:30am: Get to work!
- 1:30pm: Working lunch (pizza provided)
- 5:30pm: Time's up! Showcase your apps to our judges
- 6pm: Judging and prizes
- 6:30: Closing remarks
- 7pm: Afterparty at Capdeville
How Do I Register?
To register, check out http://codenola.eventbrite.com and see other that are going as well!
