Twenty-seventh hacknight – 42 participants. Presenter: Anthea Foyer, City of Mississauga Anthea Foyer's slides from Civic Tech Toronto hacknight, Feb 2 2016 – culture.mississauga.ca from civictechTO Breakout groups: Toronto budget – Henrik Civic Tech 101 – Emily User Research 101 workshop beta test – Helén WelcomeHomeTO – Craig Open Cabinet – Alex NextBus data archive Read more about Hacknight #27: Feb 2[…]

Twenty-fifth hacknight – 40 participants. Presenter: James McKinney (@mckinneyjames), founder of Open North. James McKinney's slides from Civic Tech Toronto hacknight, Jan 19 2016 from civictechTO Breakout groups: Civic Tech 101 – Matthew Design research on the Syrian refugee private sponsor experience – Dorothy Open Cabinet – Alex Toronto budget project – Henrik Data viz Read more about Hacknight #25: Jan 19[…]

Twenty-fourth hacknight – 42 participants. Presenters: Una Lee (@y00nalee) and Aylwin Lo (@aylwinlo), about contratados.org contratados.org | A case study in Community Centred Design | by Una Lee and Aylwin Lo from civictechTO Breakout groups: Craig – Syrian refugees Leon – climate change awareness Matthew – plain language Alex – Open Cabinet Dorothy – refugee Read more about Hacknight #24: Jan 12[…]

Twenty-third hacknight – 30 participants. No presenter tonight — open hacknight. Breakout groups: Henrik – Toronto budget project: support informed debate about the City budget Derakshan – Refuees Welcome Toronto Dorothy – Refugee experience Alex – Open Orders Chloe – Community Solutions Lab Thanks to Architech for the venue and dinner!

Twenty-second hacknight – 22 participants. No presenter tonight – bonus work time! Breakout groups: Refugees Welcome Toronto – Derakshan Toronto budget citizen engagement – Henrik Plain language project – Matthew Toronto planning data/education app – Gabe Open Cabinet – Alex

Twenty-first hacknight – 26 participants. Presenter: Adriana Ieraci, Get Your Bot On How Will Robots Change Our Cities? Adriana Ieraci at Civic Tech Toronto hacknight, Dec 8 2015 from civictechTO Breakout groups: Ecologos website redesign – Hanifa Plain Language project – Matthew Refugees Welcome – Medina Planning applications – Gabe How to file an FOI Read more about Civic Tech Toronto Hacknight: Dec 8[…]

Twentieth hacknight – 25 participants. Mini-presentations from each project lead: – 0:00: Alex: Open Cabinet – 5:30 Henrik: Toronto Budget project – 10:45: Gabe: Toronto planning applications – 15:55: Matthew: Plain language project – 21:25: Ian & Marc: Transit clock project Matthew’s links: – Link at 17:00: http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/es/pubs/guide/ – Link at 20:20: http://answers.oaklandnet.com/ Breakout groups: Read more about Civic Tech Toronto hacknight: Dec 1[…]

Nineteenth hacknight – 10 participants. No presenter this week. Breakout groups: Open Cabinet; launch planning – Alex Plain language project; research and scoping – Matthew Planning application scraper; need help from a planner – Gabe

Eighteenth hacknight – 19 participants. Presenter: Maya Roy, ED of Newcomer Women’s Services Toronto (@NEW_Employment) Breakout groups: Toronto budget – Henrik Councillor voting records – Leon OpenOrders – Alex Thanks again to Lighthouse Labs for hosting us, and for dinner! (Empanadas from www.cookiemartinez.com.)

Seventeenth hacknight – 29 participants. Breakout groups: Toronto budget workgroup workshop! – Henrik, Emily, Howard Timebank – Dorothy Community reciprocity app – Alex Toronto planning application scraper / openorders – Gabe, Abby

Sixteenth hacknight – 18 participants. Presenter: Cindy Tan. Slides, LinkedIn/CivicAction research findings: LinkedIn Economic Graph Research: Toronto from LinkedIn Cindy’s slides: Presentation to Civic Tech Toronto by Cindy Tan from civictechTO Breakout groups: Toronto Budget – Emily Planning application scraper – Gabe Civic Tech 101 – Howard Tracking city councillors’ voting records – Alan Plain Read more about Civic Tech Toronto hacknight: Nov 3[…]

Fifteenth hacknight – 13 participants. No speaker this week; a working session. Breakout groups: City of Toronto development application scraper – Gabe Exploring geospatial data, finding correlations between voter turnout and other things – Ushnish Government website plain language audit / report card – Matthew Thanks to Lighthouse Labs for hosting us, and for sponsoring Read more about Civic Tech Toronto Hacknight: October 27[…]

Twelfth hacknight – 15 participants Presenter: Iris Ko   Breakout groups: Toronto Budget Project – Henrik Scraping orders-in-council – Alex Thanks to Design Cofounders for hosting us, and to ThoughtWorks for dinner!

Eleventh hacknight – 18 participants. Presenter: Salomeh Ahmadi (@SalomehA) of Rexdale Lab (@RexdaleLab) Rexdale Lab by Salomeh Ahmadi from civictechTO Breakout groups: Toronto Budget accessibility – Henrik Orders in Council – Alex  

Tenth hacknight – 18 participants. Presenter: Connie Leung (@HalloConnie) Internet of things, robots & super materials from Connie Leung Breakout groups: Scraping orders-in-council – Alex Toronto Budget accessibility – Henrik Affordable Housing data – Bianca Measuring civic engagement by looking at voter turnout – Ushnish Thanks again to ThoughtWorks for dinner!

Ninth hacknight – 20 participants! Presenter: Andrew Do (@ADoAboutThings). Policy innovation platform [draft!] from civictechTO Breakout groups: Toronto Budget – Henrik Timebank software – Dorothy None of the above (project ideation) – Gabe Thanks to ThoughtWorks for dinner!

Eighth hacknight – 10 participants. Presenters: Denise Pinto and Josh Koudys from Jane’s Walk. Breakout groups: Toronto Budget – Henrik Jane’s Walk walk creator tool – Denise and Josh

Seventh hacknight — 11 participants. Presenter: Chloe-Marie Brown (@chlobotXO): Community Solutions Lab. Slides and video below: Community solutions lab from Gabe Sawhney   Breakout groups: Toronto Budget Accessibility – Henrik Tabs on Toronto – Bill  

Sixth hacknight! 21 participants! Presenter: Kevin Branigan (@kbranigan) Breakout groups: Toronto budget accessibility – Henrik Safe route bicycle trip planner – Xu Fei Digital solutions lab advice – Chloe (Look here shortly for their notes from the session)  

Fifth hacknight! Presenter: Michael Lenczner (@mlenc) {video to come}

Fourth hacknight! 14 participants! Presenter: Doug Estey (@dougestey) Four breakout groups: Queen’s Park legislation tracker – Howard Toronto budget accessibility – Henrik Open data video feedback – Richard Toronto City Hall API – Doug