Live notes from the “Giving More Than Money” session at the Awesome Summit, by Rahul Bhargava, Ethan Zuckerman and Willow Brugh. Matt Stempeck (@mstem) comes to the Center for Civic Media from the Washington activism world. The organizations he worked with always lacked money. When it became time to run a […]
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Live notes from the “Lightning Talks” session at the Awesome Summit, by Rahul Bhargava, Ethan Zuckerman, Matt Stempeck and Willow Brugh. Christina introduces a session of lightning talks. She sent out an invitation for people doing awesome things to join us here at the Summit today. Each will get about 5 […]
This infographic from Floor Gem blasts the Transportation Security Administration’s prodigious terribleness (prodigious in the sense that the TSA is a terribleness prodigy, on the level of Bobby Fischer and chess). There’s nothing that inherently lends this data to the infographic form. It’s flawed. There’s nothing that its graphicality adds […]
Some filmmakers we met on the v4c daytrip to Borobudor; Magelang, Java. Hackathon: A hackathon, a hacker neologism, is an event when programmers meet to do collaborative computer programming. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon) Hackathons can be single or multiple days and sometimes participants form teams and code in competition. The term hackathon is […]
We’ve got an open seat here at the Center for Civic Media – we’re trying to hire a Civic Technology Programmer. Are you, or do you know, a hacker excited about the civic engagement space? Let us know! We are looking for someone to help us bring our research projects […]