Cracking Oakland's Code

me@ryanorban.com (Ryan Orban) — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Summary

This East Bay Express feature covered the nascent civic technology scene in Oakland in late 2012, when city government was beginning to open its data and local developers were building applications on top of it. The piece profiled city staff and community developers who were working on making Oakland’s crime data, budget information, and city services more accessible and useful.

Hackathon Aims to Make Oakland More Open

me@ryanorban.com (Ryan Orban) — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Summary

Code for Oakland 2012 was a civic hackathon organized as part of the growing Code for America ecosystem — a movement to bring software development practices to local government problems. Developers, designers, and city staff worked together over a weekend to build tools using open government data: crime statistics, transit schedules, permit records, budget data. The SFGate coverage represents the moment civic hacking got mainstream local press attention.

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Cracking Oakland's Code

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Hackathon Aims to Make Oakland More Open

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