In case the NY Senate CIO's office does this again and you wish to track them on your Facebook account, they can be found at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-York-NY/NY-Senate-CIOs-office/62313685063
2010/8/17 Luis Ibanez - [email protected] <+tosmaillist+neophyte_rep+03ae3d6731.luis.ibanez#[email protected]>: > > 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). 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, 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 > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > > _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
