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Breakout groups that meet at Chi Hack Night every Tuesday in Chicago
https://chihacknight.org/breakouts.html
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In2It Chicago #142

Closed lydiajessup closed 3 years ago

lydiajessup commented 6 years ago

About the group

Problem: Despite the desire that many people have to contribute to the (civic) life of their community, they sometimes aren’t sure how.

Solution: We believe civic technology tools can enable people to more easily and more effectively engage with civic life - and help all of us work together to make our democracy vibrant, active, just and truly representative. So we are creating a platform (app or website TBD) to encourage active and informed civic engagement. People will be able to search for civic events using filters, read info on them, and commit to attending. The next phase of the project will add other functionality such as community pages and a “civic health tracker” so that people will also be able see their personal calendars, past activity and stats, and set their personal interests and goals.

Inspiration for the name + project: The name was inspired by part of President Barack Obama's Farewell address:

“Ultimately, that’s what our democracy demands. It needs you. Not just when there’s an election, not just when your own narrow interest is at stake, but over the full span of a lifetime. If you’re tired of arguing with strangers on the Internet, try to talk with one in real life. If something needs fixing, lace up your shoes and do some organizing. If you’re disappointed by your elected officials, grab a clipboard, get some signatures, and run for office yourself. Show up. Dive in. Persevere.”

We are currently collecting information on civic engagement through a survey. You can take the survey here: http://bit.ly/clipboardsurvey

Group leaders

Lydia Jessup

Who we're looking for

People who like/are interested in/good at:

Tools

Currently using Python for web scraping and Django for website development

Relevant Links

Coming soon...

Where we meet

Cafeteria/Flipping tables room

Chi Hack Night slack channel

You can find us at "the-clipboard-project" and "clipboard-tech" for the dev side

lydiajessup commented 6 years ago

Hi Wes - Great! Looking forward to meeting you tonight!

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 12:48 PM, Wes Thorburn notifications@github.com wrote:

Hey, I'm a software developer and I'd like to get involved. I'll keep an eye out for this group's introduction this evening!

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WesThorburn commented 6 years ago

Repo link for contributors: https://github.com/ClipboardProject/ClipboardApp

jwilliamsciv commented 5 years ago

Thanks for letting me listen in tonight on the work being done. As I listened more, I understood better that an academic definition of 'civic engagement' might not be necessary or interesting (i.e. you might be using Potter Stewart's method of identifying civic engagement...). Still, if it would be helpful:

geneorama commented 5 years ago

FYI, there is a gallery in Chicago called Intuit. https://www.art.org/ (Note, their URL does not contain the name!)

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derekeder commented 3 years ago

This group has not been active at Chi Hack Night for several months so I'm closing this issue for now. When you come back, please re-open or start a new one!