Civic Event?

[mikeal]

@eddietejeda what are you thinkin?

[eddietejeda]

Hey @mikeal

So I asked Spike and Mai-Ling if they'd be interested in doing a civic-tech track for JSFest and they were. We could probably also get someone some the city's attorney's office to speak as well.

I was thinking of having 2-4 people talk about civic issues in Oakland from a variety of angles. Say, how should civic hackers engage the city to build new projects? What are the challenges that city staff have when they chose to work with the civic tech community? to how do we ensure new voices are welcome into this growing community?

It could be simple: a series of talks or brief overview and then panel. Whatever is simplest.

Thoughts?

[mikeal]

We had a final call for filling out the event schedule a month or so back. This just means that we don’t have any more space/time available at the New Parkway but if we can figure out another venue we can easily add this as well (although it might be hard being so last minute).

In fact, if we can find a free space we could make this event open to the public and not require a ticket to JSFest and we’ll just use JSFest as a good way to promote it :)

-Mikeal

On Nov 18, 2014, at 12:04PM, Eddie A Tejeda notifications@github.com wrote:

Hey @mikeal https://github.com/mikeal
So I asked Spike and Mai-Ling if they'd be interested in doing a civic-tech track for JSFest and they were. We could probably also get someone some the city's attorney's office to speak as well.

I was thinking of having 2-4 people talk about civic issues in Oakland from a variety of angles. Say, how should civic hackers engage the city to build new projects? What are the challenges that city staff have when they chose to work with the civic tech community? to how do we ensure new voices are welcome into this growing community?

It could be simple: a series of talks or brief overview and then panel. Whatever is simplest.

Thoughts?

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/jsfest/oakland/issues/16#issuecomment-63419817.

[eddietejeda]

geez louise! talk about letting time get the best of me. Well, let me know
if there are any other ways I can help.

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Mikeal Rogers notifications@github.com
wrote:

We had a final call for filling out the event schedule a month or so back.
This just means that we don’t have any more space/time available at the New
Parkway but if we can figure out another venue we can easily add this as
well (although it might be hard being so last minute).

In fact, if we can find a free space we could make this event open to the
public and not require a ticket to JSFest and we’ll just use JSFest as a
good way to promote it :)

-Mikeal

On Nov 18, 2014, at 12:04PM, Eddie A Tejeda notifications@github.com
wrote:

Hey @mikeal https://github.com/mikeal
So I asked Spike and Mai-Ling if they'd be interested in doing a
civic-tech track for JSFest and they were. We could probably also get
someone some the city's attorney's office to speak as well.

I was thinking of having 2-4 people talk about civic issues in Oakland
from a variety of angles. Say, how should civic hackers engage the city to
build new projects? What are the challenges that city staff have when they
chose to work with the civic tech community? to how do we ensure new voices
are welcome into this growing community?

It could be simple: a series of talks or brief overview and then panel.
Whatever is simplest.

Thoughts?

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub <
https://github.com/jsfest/oakland/issues/16#issuecomment-63419817>.

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Eddie A. Tejeda
@eddietejeda
2012 Fellow, Code for America
http://codeforamerica.org