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National Hack the Government Day - Aberdeen

Saturday, March 26, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (GMT)

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

National Hack the Government Day - Aberdeen

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Type Remaining End     Quantity
Geek (all-day ticket) 18 tickets Ended Free  
6pm show and tell (evening only ticket) 30 tickets Ended Free  
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Event Details

Come to the event at the University of Aberdeen and use open data to make government work better for you. Come and meet other students, developers,  and designers to develop useful apps to make life easier using data that's produced by the government at local, regional or national levels. We're holding a remote version of the same NHGD event being organised by Rewired State at the Guardian offices in London.

The goal is to make government work better for us the people using data it already has. This is your chance to show that your ideas can have an impact and that we can do it better than the big firms.

We'll provide the space and some refreshments, you come with ideas and enthusiasm. We'll also have someone along from e-Government office at Aberdeen council to help out.

When: Saturday, 26 March 2011, 9:00-17:00

Where: Room 311, Meston Building, University of Aberdeen

What to bring: you and your laptop


If you have a 'geek' ticket, then you don't need a 'show and tell' ticket


Preliminaries

Before you come your laptop should be set up to work well with a team depending upon your specialty. This needs to be done before you come in order to maximize the day we have available. This could include

  • a version control system such as Git so that you can easily collaborate with your team
  • a programming language such as Ruby and Rails, or Java, and/or the Android SDK, or iOS if you're an iPhone/iPad developer
  • basic web development tools to create and edit web pages using HTML and CSS

This is not a chance to learn how to program, but rather a chance to show your design and development skills. This means we'll provide support to help you with tools, but we'll not teach you programming, or design.

Bring your ideas, and think up others

By all means come with an idea in mind and look for people on the day to help you implement it. Similarly, if you just want to design and develop things, then come along too. Also do look through what others have done in the past for other Rewired State hackdays, and we'll hopefully have some ideas that you can work with too.

 

We are also interested in sponsors, contact b.scharlau@abdn.ac.uk 

 

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Meston Building, Computing Common Room
University of Aberdeen
AB24 3UE Aberdeen
United Kingdom

Saturday, March 26, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (GMT)


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