Thirty-eighth hacknight – 66 participants. Presenters:Â Stephen Buckley & Jesse Coleman Breakout groups: Toronto budget project: Henrik WelcomeHomeTO / digital platform: Craig Free the Electorate /… Read More »Hacknight #38: Apr 19 – Stephen Buckley & Jesse Coleman
What happens when you mix together 100 Torontonians who share an interest in making their city more prosperous, sustainable and equitable, nine challenging civic problems,… Read More »CodeAcross Toronto: Community collaboration in celebration of International Open Data Day
Thirty-sixth hacknight – 79(!) participants Presenter: Jenn Hollett Breakout groups: Civic Tech 101: Gabe Toronto budget project: Henrik WelcomeHomeTO / digital platform: Rachel Toronto Meshnet:… Read More »Hacknight #36: Apr 5 – Jenn Hollett
Thirty-Fifth Hacknight – 44 participants. Presenter: Phil Vlach Phil Vlach's slides from Civic Tech Toronto hacknight, Mar 29 2016 from Civic Tech Toronto Breakout groups:… Read More »Hacknight #35: Mar 29 – Phil Vlach
Thirty-fourth hacknight – 59 participants. Presenter: Michael-Owen Liston {video to come} Breakout groups: Civic Tech 101: Gabe Toronto budget project: Henrik Experiential design in cities… Read More »Hacknight #34: Mar 22 – Michael-Owen Liston
Thirty-third hacknight – 52 participants. Presenter: Alonzo Bartley. Breakout groups: Civic Tech 101: Alex (and sandwiches) Toronto Budget: Henrik Councilmatic: Patcon Experiential design in cities:… Read More »Hacknight #33: Mar 15 – Alonzo Bartley
Thirty-second hacknight; 44 participants. Presenter: Demond Drummer (remote) {video to come} Breakout groups: Toronto Budget – Henrik Councilmatic – Patrick Refugees Welcome – Craig Experiential… Read More »Hacknight #32: Mar 8
Toronto’s first CodeAcross — and fourth Open Data Day — was great success! 112 attendees participated in nine challenges, and made amazing progress in just a few hours. We’ll post a full summary of the event in a few weeks, but in the meantime here are some photos and videos from Saturday…
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Thirty-first hacknight – 32 participants. Presenter: Mike Gifford. Breakout groups: Civic Tech 101 – Gabe Environmental open data – Ushnish COP21 project – Hanifa Councilmatic – Patrick Refugees Welcome… Read More »Hacknight #31: Mar 1
Thirtieth hacknight; thirty-three participants. No presentation; open hacknight. Breakout groups: Civic Tech 101 – Emily Toronto budget – Henrik Accessing mental health services in Toronto… Read More »Hacknight #30: Feb 23
Twenty-ninth hacknight; 51 participants. No presenter; open hacknight. We also ran our first Human-Centred Design for Civic Tech workshop: User Research 101. Breakout groups:
Twenty-eighth hacknight; 41 participants No presenter — open hacknight. Breakout groups: Civic Tech 101 – Emily Stress reduction for first responders – Mark Design research… Read More »Hacknight #28: Feb 9
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… Read More »Hacknight #27: Feb 2
Twenty-sixth hacknight. No presenter – open hacknight!
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… Read More »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 |… Read More »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… Read More »Hacknight #23: Jan 5
Twenty-second hacknight – 22 participants. No presenter tonight – bonus work time! Breakout groups: Refugees Welcome Toronto – Derakshan Toronto budget citizen engagement – Henrik… Read More »Civic Tech Toronto Hacknight: Dec 15
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,… Read More »Civic Tech Toronto Hacknight: Dec 8
The Toronto budget is a dense tome. Its development a process that only the brave, the passionate and, for the sake of argument, economists dare… Read More »Decoding the Budget: A participant’s recount of the November 10 Hacknight Workshop
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… Read More »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… Read More »Civic Tech Toronto hacknight: Nov 24
Eighteenth hacknight – 19Â participants. Presenter: Maya Roy, ED of Newcomer Women’s Services Toronto (@NEW_Employment) Breakout groups: Toronto budget – Henrik Councillor voting records – Leon… Read More »Civic Tech Toronto hacknight: Nov 17
Seventeenth hacknight – 29 participants. Breakout groups: Toronto budget workgroup workshop! – Henrik, Emily, Howard Timebank – Dorothy Community reciprocity app – Alex Toronto planning application… Read More »Civic Tech Toronto hacknight: Nov 10
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… Read More »Civic Tech Toronto hacknight: Nov 3