Introducing the Gnomedex 10 Open Government Hackathon!
Aug 5th
Join us during Gnomedex 10 in Seattle for a 24-hour hackathon to see who can build the best open government application in just one day.
You can participate as an individual or a team. Prizes will be awarded to the winners by the Hackathon Partners.
Who Should Attend?
Ruby, Python, PHP, web developers, coders and anyone who has a passion to code, hack or kluge applications that will free (or otherwise enhance) the accessability and usefulness of government-shared data.
Although the sprint takes place August 21-22 during Gnomedex10 in Seattle, you don’t have to be attending the conference to join us.
Participation is free and open to anyone… we just ask that you register in advance so we know how many individuals or teams we need to accomodate.
What’s Going to Happen?
The nature of the Hackathon will be fairly free-form. Hackathon Partners will have organizers onsite to help get things rolling initially. At the end of the 24 hours, each app will be evaluated by the Hackathon Partners and prizes will be awarded to those teams or individuals that develop the best applications in the 24 hour period.
Hackathon Partners
The Hackathon Partner list continues to grow. The partners are companies and organizations that provide tools or services that can enhance open government apps. They’re also providing the prizes and will be choosing the winners. If your organization has tools or services that you think would be useful to the Hackathon, contact Johnny Diggz and we’ll see about adding you to the list:
- Tropo – Tropo is a powerful yet simple API that adds Voice, SMS, Twitter, and IM support to the programming languages you already know.
- Socrata – Opening government, one dataset at a time.
Hosted By Tropo
Tropo is a powerful yet simple API that adds Voice, SMS, Twitter, and IM support to the programming languages you already know. Visit Tropo.com for more info.
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What Happened at Gnomedex 9.0?
Apr 22nd
- Gnomedex 9 – Recap in Photos
- Gnomedex 9.0 By Jim Roberts
- Flickr Photo Group
- Lip Gloss and Laptops Episode #142 – Gnomedex Conference Highlights, Poo-pourri, Olay Ageless, eco-TOOLS Bath and Body Line, and a fabulous MAC draw!
- Silicon Florist memePDX: Portland tech news for those short on time and/or attention
- What does Gnomedex Swag look like?
- What does a standing ovation look like? By Chris Pirillo
- Gnomedex 9.0 – Oh, What I Learned… By Bob Dunn
- Gnomedex: A virtual Recap by Timothy Wood
- Geeks & Twitter – #Gnomedex Tweet Data By Adam Schoenfeld
- Gnomedex 9.0 by Dan Robles
- Photo Geeks Unite! Recap of Gnomedex 9.0: Human Circuitry By Kris Krug
- Hackers and Painters in Seattle by Mikepk
- Gnomedex 9.0 — Affinity for Robots? Affirmative. Robotic behavior? Negative. By Matt Whiting
- Chris Brogan’s Presentation at Gnomedex By Thomasina Cruz
- Gnomedex was amazing by Bryan Person
- Gnomedex 2009 First Timers
- Gnomedex 2009 day 1 By Penmachine
- Geek Density Maximum By Pen machine
- Gnomedex 9: Folding proteins, making skulls, and skeptical interviewing by John Locke
- Gnomedex 9.0 I’ll Be Back by Jeff Shuey
- Final Closing thoughts on Gnomedex 09 By Dan Morrill
- Wrapping up Gnomedex 9 By Ian Wilker
- Have you been to Gnomedex? by Eric Haver
- Gnotes from Gnomedex Gnine BY Travis Smith
- Gnomedex Redux: The RWW Gang Roundtable By Jolie O’dell
- Lessons from Gnomedex 9.0 By Noland Hoshino
- I’m at Gnomedex! By Phil Plait
- Gnomedex 9.0 or What I did this Summer
- The Hacker Journalist By Renay San Miguel
- Select Quotes from Gnomedex by Darren Barefoot
- Gnomedex puts the human face on tech by Val Streit
- Techie’s share favorite Iphone Apps by Val Streit
- Gnomedex 9-Day 1: A Conference Unlike Any Others I’ve Been To Before By Ken Yeung
- Nickelsville by Giyen
- Realplayer SP at Gnomedex:Recap by Lacy Kemp
- “Bubbling” Over With Excitement. How I’m Writing The Next Chapter. by Kenneth Yeung
- All Gnomedex, All the time: Part One by Ron
- Whew. 2 coasts. 3 talks. LIVESTRONG + GNOMEDEX By Drew Olanoff
- Random notes from first day of Gnomedex by Eric Richards
- Random notes from second day of Gnomedex by Eric Richards
- Iphone app roll from Gnomedex 9.0 by Josh Bancroft
- Giving an Ignite presentation: What I learned at Gnomedex 2009 by Betsy Aoki
- Lessons from Gnomedex: Too Geeky is a good thing by Tac Anderson
- Gnomedex 9.0: Tech conference looks deeper at Social Media by Mark Glasner
- Gnomedex day 2: Beginning of the wrapup by Dan Morrill
- The Robot that sharing built: Gnomedex09 speaker 4 by Dan Morrill
- Chris Brogan & Julian Smith: Second speakers at Gnomedex 09 by Dan Morrill
- What does a standing ovation look like? By Chris Pirillo
- Getting the perfect interview: First speaker at Gnomedex 09 by Dan Morrill
- Probably the most interesting speech of the day at Gnomedex 09 by Dan Morrill
- Micah Baldwin on Startups that suck by Jolie O’Dell
- Is Gnomedex more like cheese or fine wine? By Mark Carras
- Observing Social Media at Work by @glenc
- More random notes from Gnomedex 9.0 by @glenc
- Video Impressions of Gnomedex by @glenc
- Gnomedex Attendees should stay at the Marriott by Mark Carras
- Trust goes both ways by Matt Heinz
- Take a left turn at Albuquerque by Micah Baldwin
- Gnomedex 9.0 kicks off in Seattle by @crapmonkey
- Print 3D Objects with Makerbot by @crapmonkey
- Plasticiety: Society Meets The Makerbot Revolution by @crapmonkey
- Gnomedex – Warren Etheredge “The Art of the Interview” By Airdrie Miller
- Gnomedex – Chris Brogan & Julien Smith By Airdrie Miller
- Gnomedex – Phil Plait “Active Skepticism Online” By Airdrie Miller
- Gnomedex – Christine Peterson “Life Extension for Geeks” By Airdrie Miller
- Gnomedex – Bre Pettis By Airdrie Miller
- Waterfront Magic By Airdrie Miller
- Gnomedex starts in the morning! By @Orensr
- Gnomedex – intro and Art of the Interview By @Orensr
- Gnomedex 09 – Chris Brogan and Julien Smith on the Rise of the Trust Agents By @Orensr
- Gnomedex09 – Phil Plait – Skepticism Online By @Orensr
- Gnomedex 09 – Christine Peterson – Life Extension for Geeks By @Orensr
- Gnomedex – Bre Pettis – The Robot That Sharing Built By @Orensr
- #Gnomedex 09 – Day 2 – Mark Glasner and Jim Ray – Hacker Journalists By @Orensr
- #Gnomedex 09 Day 2: Micah Baldwin on Building Influence Online By @Orensr
- #Gnomedex 09 Day 2: 20 million vs 20: Audience vs. Impact by Jay Grandin and Leah Nelson By @Orensr
- #Gnomedex 09 Day 2: Lunch conversation with Clint Nelsen from Startup Weekend By @Orensr
- #Gnomedex 09 Day 2: Angel Djambazov on Amazon, Affiliates, and Taxes By @Orensr
- #Gnomedex 09 Day 2 Mark Horvath on A Conversation about Social Change through Social Media By @Orensr
- #Gnomedex 09 Day 2: Amber Case on Prosthetic Culture & Cyborg Anthropology By @Orensr
- #Gnomedex 09 Day 2 :Show and tell and observations of the crowd By @Orensr
- Gnomedex 9.0 – Top 5 things I’m Looking Forward to by Paul Balcerak
- Live from #Gnomedex by Paul Balcerak
- Gnomedex gets it’s own I-Phone app
Firas Khatib – FoldIt
Nov 11th
The University of Washington are investigating whether the brainpower of humans worldwide can be brought to bear on critical problems posed in computational biology. The long term goal of this project is to utilize the combined power of humans and computers in order to build accurate models of disease-related proteins by introducing a new approach: distributed computing driven by human intuition. The problem of accurate prediction of protein structures remains one of the most important unsolved dilemmas in biology.
Determining the correct structure of a protein helps researchers successfully target them with drugs. Currently, experimental methods for solving protein structures result in accurate, high-resolution solutions, but cannot keep pace with the quantity of information. Developing new computational techniques to produce experimental-quality models is one of the most important problems in computational structural biology.
Leah Nelson and Jay Grandin – 20,000,000 versus 20: Audience vs. Impact
Nov 11th
Leah Nelson and Jay Grandin have established themselves as accomplished New Media producers with web content that has seen audiences of over 35 million. The success of their short films, comedy and documentary work has led to contracts for original series with companies such as Myspace, and inspired them to found Giant Ant Media, a web-focused video studio that creates unique campaigns and shows for online audiences.
Nelson’s short documentary, Kaka’win, traveled to numerous festivals and was awarded Best Canadian Short at Toronto’s Planet in Focus Film Festival. While working on Bongo, they followed anthropologist and director of Urban Project, Danya Fast and were granted unique access to a world few outsiders are welcomed into. The trust they gained allowed them to witness a life-changing and often taxing experience in the lives of a group of street hustlers and brings an intimacy to the film that is necessary in telling their guarded stories.
Drew Olanoff – My Cancer is Social
Nov 11th
Drew Olanoff has cancer – but cancer doesn’t have him. Drew is fighting against his Hodgkin’s Disease the only way he knows how… by being social. He talks long and loud about this horrible disease, via every social medium he can get his hands on. And – it’s working.
Drew and his team are raising awareness (and money for cancer research) to new levels every day. Even before he was officially diagnosed, Drew started blaming things like losing his car keys on his cancer. He called up his friend Mike, and said “hey – we should start a website”. Little did Drew know what his idea would turn int
