Demo Night Recap

Greetings Civic Hackers!

We had a great Demo Night event last week which is why we took the week off the newsletter. Recorded talks are coming soon to YouTube, but we had six different Code for Boston projects present on their work and impact. With about forty folks participating in person and forty people participating virtually we managed to achieve a good amount of participation. It was great to see many folks in-person for the first time for a while. We hope to do another one of these next year.

What We’re Reading and Watching:

• A People-First Approach Improving Government Customer Experience Through Technology is an interesting recording of a Civic Tech talk hosted by Georgetown.

-Matt & The Code for Boston Team

Events

NYC Open Data Week

Open Data Week is an annual festival of community-driven events organized and produced by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics and BetaNYC. Every year, New Yorkers come together all across the five boroughs to celebrate New York City’s Open Data Law, which was signed into law on March 7, 2012. Coincidentally, the first weekend of March is also International Open Data Day. With these dates anchoring Open Data Week, we rally NYC’s civic tech and open data communities and offer opportunities for more people to learn about and engage with municipal open data.

Jobs

Housing Navigator - Project Coordinator

Housing Navigator Massachusetts, Inc. (HNMI) seeks a full-time Project Coordinator for our five-person team based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This is a rare opportunity to be part of a growing organization delivering tech for good with passionate, problem-solving colleagues focused on improving affordable housing access. We are a nonprofit start-up offering tools and information—for renters, for owners, for anyone–throughout Massachusetts. We make it easier for people to find a home, giving everyone more time to focus on their hopes, their dreams, and their lives.

Project Updates

Clean Slate

• Starting to MRCC staging site up
• Random input testing for DocAssemble

Legislative Testimony

• Front and back end are all setup.
• Now working on integrations and meeting with Civic Tech experts.
• Next.js and Front end Design UI