nanaimo-info-Blog: Nanaimo Hackathon / Calling Nanaimo Hackers / Programmers

The City of Nanaimo and OpenDataBC are inviting the local development community to join us for a day exploring the possibilities of open government data.
Across the world, community groups have been holding Open Data Hackathons to work with data that has been proactively published by government. These events focus on building cool applications, enhancing the relationship between government and the developer community, and determining priorities for future open data publishing. In many jurisdictions, similar events have prompted programmers to build innovative services and perform valuable analysis of official information with results that the government never expected.
You can see examples of the data currently available to developers at both the City of Nanaimo’s Data Catalogue http://cnan.ca/fbD2ja and at OpenDataBC’s community-developed listing of open data sources across the province http://cnan.ca/fYyMPM.
The event will be held on Saturday April 30th, 2011 from 9am to 4pm. If you can join us at this free space limited event, please register at http://cnan.ca/dYvBxe by April 21st, and be sure to bring your laptop!
For more information on other regional Open Data Hackathons, visit http://www.opendatabc.ca/

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