From Gaetano Borriello:
Clint Tseng, one of our ICTD ugrad alumni works for Socrata, btw.
From: Marina S. Martin <marina@marinamartin.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:53 PM
Subject: Startup Weekend GOV on April 27th
Hello,
I wanted to reach out to you about an upcoming event being put on by
City of Seattle, King County, and the State of Washington that I think
would be of interest to you and your students.
The first-ever Startup Weekend GOV is taking place at Seattle City
Hall on April 27-29th. Participants gather Friday evening to pitch
ideas for Web and mobile apps that integrate open government data sets
(http://data.seattle.gov, http://data.wa.gov and http://datakc.org),
improve public safety and/or generally improve the lives of Washington
residents. One Bus Away (http://onebusaway.org/) is a great example of
such an application. Everyone breaks into teams and designers,
programmers and non-technical teammates work at City Hall throughout
the weekend. On Sunday evening, every team demos their apps and a
panel of judges provides feedback. Seattle Channel will be filming the
event and government officials like WA CIO Bharat Shyam and Mayor Mike
McGinn, in addition to the city IT department, will be on hand to
answer questions and interact with teams.
Tickets are available at http://seattlegov.
is special student pricing. The ticket includes food, snacks, and
drinks throughout the weekend in addition to event swag and unlimited
coffee.
There is also a FREE event at Seattle City Hall this Thursday, April
19th at 6pm with presentations by Google and Socrata (which powers all
the government data sets) on working with their respective APIs. Light
refreshments will be served, and there will be time for mingling with
some government officials and talking data sets afterwards. Register
(free) at http://
If you have any questions, I’d be happy to address them or connect you
with the right person. Please let me know. If you could pass word
along to your students or colleagues who might be interested in
attending, I would appreciate it. We are very interested in having
students and faculty such as yourself involved in the event if you can
make it!
Thank you,
Marina