A Day of Show, Tell, and Do for Civic Hacking
What is CityCamp? An Overview
Madison CityCamp, on Saturday, October 26th, will bring together local government officials, municipal employees, programmers, designers, citizens, and journalists to share perspectives and insights about the cities in which they live.
CityCamp recognizes that local governments and community organizations have the most direct influence and impact on our daily lives. This event seeks to create local communities of practice who are dedicated to design, process, and technology applications that make cities and other local communities more open and “user friendly”.
In Madison, we’ve had some recent community projects that build on top of open government data and/or complement existing city services, best exemplified by the Madison Metro Transit API. CityCampMadison would like to build on this momentum, learn from those experiences and explore new ideas around open, community resources that help city and municipal organizations innovate and deliver new tools to its citizens.
This is the followup to our successful 2011 and 2012 CityCamps. The focus of the 2013 Camp is rough consensus and running code, with a priority on deploying working systems. While this may not be last CityCamp as a singular event, we hope it will mark the transition from occasional events to a more sustained community of civic hackers.
The day will be broken up into two parts. In the morning we will have a series of sessions by members of the Madison community discussing project and initiatives they are involved with that are contributing to the Madison ecosystem.
After a lunch break (on your own), we will break into an unconference, where people can follow up with the morning presenters, host their own sessions or work together on projects. Session ideas are being discussed on Google Moderator and can give you a good sense for the types of topics that may be discussed at the event.
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The camp begins with coffee at 9am and the first session starting at 9:30am on Saturday, October 26th 2013, and will take place at the Central Library (201 West Mifflin St.) There is no cost to attend, though we do ask that you register so we can plan ahead. Registration is available here: https://citycampmadison2013.eventbrite.com/
We hope to see you on Saturday!
Notes
We're collaboratively taking notes on Google Docs. Please feel free to edit along here
Schedule Still Tentantive, and subject to change
| Start Time | Session | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 am | Coffee/snacks available, registration open | ||
| 9:30 am | Welcome, Overview, and Schedule Review | ||
| 9:45 am | Representatives of the City of Madison | ||
| 10:15 am | An overview of auto-configured Raspberry Pi-powered Kiosks, for transit and other community data: Preston Austin and Steve Faulkner | ||
| 10:30 am | Madison Citizen Inventory of Parks: Creating a Dataset of What grows Where. Presented by Si Widstrand | ||
| 10:50 am | Short Break | ||
| 11:00 am | Madison Startup Hackday Results: Reps from Hardin Development and Bendyworks | ||
| 11:20 am | Cool Projects from a local hacker | ||
| 11:40 am | The State of Madison Broadband | ||
| 12:00 pm | Lunch (On Your Own) | ||
Afternoon Unconference
In the afternoon, we'll have three tracks of Unconference sessions running. We'll fill in a few sessions before the 26th, but if you have a session you wish to do that day, all you have to do is put it on the board. Please help us by using Google Moderator to Discuss Session Ideas Here
| Start Time | Track 1: Room XXX1 | Track 2: Room XXX2 | Track 3: Room XXX3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 pm | DriftyCo: HTML5 frameworks and tools | Unconference: TBD | Unconference: TBD |
| 2:00 pm | Tentative: Discuss Tech and the City with Madison Mayor Paul Soglin! | Unconference: TBD | Unconference: TBD |
| 3:00 pm | Kiosk Hacking Hands-on: Create and Register your own channel! | Unconference: TBD | Unconference: TBD |
| 4:00 pm | Wrap-up, continue hacking! | ||