This is laterally related to Teaching-Open-Source, in the sense that it is a good example to show students that open source is contributing solutions to government challenges:
http://capitolcampdev.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=event_reminder&utm_term=event_title <quote> CapitolCamp 2010 is split into two days: a technical developer summit on August 19th, and an unconference on August 20th (You must register independently for the unconference <http://capitolcamp.eventbrite.com/>). CapitolCamp is organized and hosted by the *New York State Senate Office of the Chief Information Officer *and the *New York State Office of the Chief Information Officer (*CIO/OFT). On *Thursday, Aug 19th, "the developer summit"* will be a smaller event, primarily for programmers, and will focus on the nuts and bolts of *using open source and other software for civic good and Government. *This is a day long conversation about coding, *collaborative software development* and *best practices. *The conversation will involve *hands-on work in open-source*applications *currently being used *within and in conjunction with New York State Government. On *Friday, Aug 20th, the main "unconference" *will be segmented into three thematic “tracks,” each with specific 45 minute session topics proposed by attendees upon their arrival at the event. You must register independently for this event <http://capitolcamp.eventbrite.com/>, at ( http://capitolcamp.eventbrite.com ). </quote> ---- For the record: The announcement of the event got so overwhelming response that they have to change the venue in order to allow for 40 more people to attend. --- Luis
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