[sudo-discuss] Alameda County Apps Challenge

Dear Chelle and fellow Civics Academy alumni! I write to let you know about an upcoming event that may interest you or your friends and colleagues. Alameda County is making a number of data sets available these days. One of the county supervisors is organizing a hackathon to invite programmers, designers, civic groups and interested community members to create useful apps based on this data. The event will be April 27 at Berkeley High School. See http://code.acgov.org/ for more information and http://acappschallenge2013.eventbrite.com/ to register. I would be interested to explore whether Albany would like to host a similar event at some point. I bet we could get some enterprising students from AHS or other community members to come up with good ideas for using Albany data. (In my day job I direct the Data and Democracy Initiative at CITRIS, based at UCB. The project is all about creating tools to foster civic engagement for social, economic, and political issues. More info is on our website at http://democracy.citris-uc.org.)