National Day of Civic Hacking

This is a two day event, Saturday, June 4th, and Sunday, June 5th. We encourage you to attend both days if you can!

Don’t call it a hackathon. Sure, there will be code and wireframes, along with plenty of tasty snacks. But this time we’re also bringing empathy, collaboration, and community-driven design to civic hacking. You won’t want to miss this new, people-centered direction for Code for San Francisco. Here are some photos from last year's event.

Join Code for San Francisco, CivicMakers, and over 100 passionate, action-oriented community members for a weekend of translating San Francisco problems into workable, impactful solutions. This year, we’ll be focusing our full attention on users — citizens, residents, community members — and diving deep to discover and define their problems to best understand how we can help. There will also be a range of skill-building activities taught by experts and designed to help civic hackers and their projects be effective and impactful.

We’re looking for hackers and doers of all kinds to join us — not just developers designers, but City & County staff, community activists, and people on the street who want to improve our neighborhoods. Real people. Real problems. Come for the community, meaningful work, and good times... stay for the free food and non-alcoholic beverages.

Agenda

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Saturday, June 4th

8:15 AM - 9:00 AM Check-in and breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM Welcome
9:10 AM - 9:45 AM Activity: Who are we?
9:45 AM - 10:10 AM Speaker: Eric McDonnell, EVP and COO of United Way Bay Area
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM Activity: Project lifecycle
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Project pitches and weekend agenda
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Project Kick Off | Intro to co-discovery
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Project time | Skill building workshop | Co-discovery workshop
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM Project time | Skill building workshop | Co-discovery workshop
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM Break
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM Project time | Skill building workshop | Co-discovery workshop
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Report back and debrief

Sunday, June 5th

8:15 AM - 9:00 AM Check-in and breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM Welcome
9:10 AM - 9:45 AM Activity: What do we care about?
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM Speaker: TBA
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Project pitches
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Project Kick Off | Intro to co-discovery
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Project time | Skill building workshop | Co-discovery workshop
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM Project time | Skill building workshop | Co-discovery workshop
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM Break
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM Project wrapup
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM Report back and debrief

This is a no-alcohol event. 

FAQs

Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event?

All ages! If you're under 18, you will need a parent/guardian to attend with you while at Microsoft Reactor.

What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?

Muni: 8, 12, 30, and 45 lines

BART: Montgomery / Powell (nearly equidistant)

Street parking available (Saturday meters!)

Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?

Chat with us on Slack (it's easy!) in the #NDOCH channel: http://c4sf.me/slack

Is my registration/ticket transferrable?

Yes. Contact the organizers.