Pre-Registration for St. Pete National Day of Civic Hacking is now closed (we had to get the food orders in!) . But if you're interested in coming by the event, please get in touch via the Code for Tampa Bay Contact Page and let us know. We'll be out of shirts, and no guarantees on food, but you can see what a National Day of Civic Hacking event looks like, hang out with some cool people, maybe learn a few new things, and maybe we can learn from you!

Code for Tampa Bay Brigade joins with The Iron Yard St. Petersburg-Tampa to host the first ever National Day of Civic Hacking event in Pinellas County! The one day event, hosted at the beautiful Iron Yard facility in downtown St. Petersburg, FL, will provide opportunities to develop solutions for a variety of community challenges and needs in St. Petersburg and Pinellas County.

First 50 people to register receive St. Pete Hack for Change shirts!

We're grateful to event sponsors St. Pete Greenhouse and Malwarebytes for support of St. Pete's inaugural National Day of Civic Hacking event! Visit our St. Pete National Day of Civic Hacking page at the Code for Tampa Bay Brigade website for detailed information and resources.

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Event Schedule

8 am Doors open for coffee, networking & light breakfast

8:30 am Welcome & Overview

8:45 am Get to Work!

12:30pm Lunch & guest speaker

1 pm Keep Working!

3 pm Break, Progress Reports

6 pm Prepare presentations

6:30 pm Team Projects Showcase!

7:30 pm Awards, dinner & celebration!



Challenges

Support Our Schools

A project of the St. Petersburg office of Education and Community Engagement

We’ll be working to build a digital platform that provides an easily accessible mode of communication to inform the public about the critical social services relating to successful educational outcomes in the City of St. Petersburg. The project has the secondary goal of connecting providers and resources with the segment of the population with the greatest need. Parents and students would be able to use this tool to find resources related to mentoring, tutoring, mental health counseling, and medical care. Conversely, mentors, tutors, and other service providers should be able to use this tool to volunteer their services.

Healthy St. Pete Initiative

This project aims for the creation of an application designed for health care providers and social workers to better address food insecurity by showing food banks, pantries, and meal providers, showing accessibility along bus routes and other common routes and gathering places

Economic Landscape App

The challenge here is to create an application that allows users to search by zip code on different areas to help determine current social and economic indicators of community health based on sales tax, crime data, area business classifications, community health issues or trends, and educational outcomes, which can also function as a predictive technology to determine how improvements or changes in one or more of these classifications may effect the economic landscape of the area over time. Maybe call this the Economic Butterfly Effect app!

Map Jam 3.0

We'll also be aggregating resources to Map Tampa Bay! as part of #MapJam 3.0 happening this week as part of Global Sharing Week . #MapJam 3.0 builds upon past campaigns, during which hundreds of mappers came together in nearly 100 cities to map public resources. Our Map Jam in St. Pete will be the first one in Florida, and we're happy to join in the creation of a global open source sharing map linking all of the local maps together.

Plus National Challenges found at the NDCH website and any projects you'd like to spearhead!

Before Event Day

Join GitHub! To Hack for Change in St. Pete - or for civic engagement year round! - it'll help to have a GitHub account to contribute code and resources. It is free and easy - just go to https://github.com/join and follow the instructions. Once you’ve got your GitHub account, ahead on over to our 2016 National Day of Civic Hacking repository on GitHub at https://github.com/code-for-tb/2016-National-Day-of-Civic-Hacking

Review Projects & Resources:

Pre-install any technology stack peripherals you might need.

If you already know what you want to work on, start planning now!

Please Bring

All your collaborative energy, enthusiasm, & ideas

A laptop

We'll Provide

Breakfast & Coffee

Lunch

Dinner

Snacks & refreshsments all day

Free Wifi

Great company

Shirts (for first 50 registered participants) & Swag





If you're in Tampa, please visit Tampa Innovation Alliance Codapalooza page, to learn more about Tampa's National Day of Civic Hacking weekend event, also produced with support from Code for Tampa Bay Brigade.



About National Day of Civic Hacking

National Day of Civic Hacking takes place on June 4, 2016 , in cities across the nation. The event will bring together citizens, software developers, and entrepreneurs from all over the nation to collaboratively create, build, and invent new solutions using publicly-released data, code and technology to solve challenges relevant to our neighborhoods, our cities, our states and our country. National Day of Civic Hacking will provide citizens an opportunity to do what is most quintessentially American: roll up our sleeves, get involved and work together to improve our society.

The event will leverage the expertise and entrepreneurial spirit of those outside federal, state and local government to drive meaningful, technology-based solutions for federal, state and local government. It demonstrates what's possible when we all work together to strengthen our society and our lives. YOU can make a difference no matter where you live.

BENEFITS

You should participate in National Day of Civic Hacking because the toughest challenges are best solved together, by a variety of people with different skill sets, from citizens who use government and community services and resources and may have ideas for improving them, to coders and developers who can help those systems work better, to entrepreneurs who understand the business aspects of those services. This is a unique opportunity to get involved, connect with others like yourself, and develop technology that will make the world a better place. National Day of Civic Hacking helps:

o Demonstrate a commitment to the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration.

o Exercise a government’s interest in using open data and technology, in partnership with others, to address your local community’s felt needs.

o Liberate open data that can inform better problem solving in every community.

o Continue to collectively map a national innovation ecosystem and create new access points to that system.

o Engage citizens in cities with little technology infrastructure to contribute to changing their community through open source, open data, entrepreneurship and code development.

o Promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education by encouraging students to utilize open technology for solutions to real challenges.

o Encourage large scale partnership and mutual understanding.



You don't have to be a programmer to participate. You just have to care about your community!

All attendees to Code for Tampa Bay Brigade organized or partnered events are required to follow our Code of Conduct and Anti-Harrassment Policy.