Demo Night 2022 Next Week!

Greetings Civic Hackers!

Next week is our first demo night in two years. This hybrid event will be both in-person at the CIC Venture Cafe and virtual on the Code for Boston website. We are excited to share the impact and lessons from the projects we have been working on since we last convened demos in 2019. If you want to join us either in-person or virtually RSVP on Eventbrite. We hope to see you there!

If you are a fan of RSS the Code for Boston website now offers these updates as an RSS feed.

What We’re Reading:

• Making Things Work in the Marble Cake is Alex Soble’s first post on his new Civic Tech blog.
• David Rosenthal’s Critique of Blockchain and Web3 is an interesting technical breakdown and case against using blockchain.

Matt & The Code for Boston Team

Events

Code for Boston Demo Night 2022

Code for Boston Demo Night is an opportunity to see what the results of the volunteer work that members have been putting in throughout the year. This is a hybrid event, attendees can participate virtually or in-person at the Venture Cafe on the 5th Floor of CIC One Broadway in Kendall Square. Presentations will be both in-person and virtual, with virtual presentations on a projector for in-person attendees.

Jobs

MBTA: Senior Product Manager

As a Senior Product Manager in the Customer Technology Department, you will join one or more of our major product teams. You will work with our design, engineering, and program teams to ensure that we’re solving the most important problems for our users in the most efficient and effective way. On any given day, you might be designing an investigation with researchers, working with designers to prototype solutions, engaging with engineers to scope out the feasibility of a particular design, or making the case for a new feature to program managers. It’s a varied and demanding role, requiring clear communication skills, energy, creativity and flexibility, as well as the tenacity to ride the ups and downs of working in technology at a government agency.

Project Updates

Digital Testimony Platform

• Deployed
• Pages are setup
• Database is pulling information
• Meeting with civic tech experts.

Clean Slate

• Moving forward on Mass Recreational Consumer Council Wordpress Site
• Testing framework

Mattapan Mapping

• Last week launched transportation projects live updated from City of Boston website.
• Looking this week at housing developments.
• React Project / GraphQL