<a href="mailto:imc-makerspace@lists.chambana.net">imc-makerspace@lists.chambana.net</a><br><br>also facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/118240874874433/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/118240874874433/</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Danielle Chynoweth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chyn@ojctech.com" target="_blank">chyn@ojctech.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="auto"><div>FYI. Does Makerspace have a listserv I can post to? - D</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><div><div>On Oct 22, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Barbara Webster <<a href="mailto:barbara.webster@broadbandillinois.org" target="_blank">barbara.webster@broadbandillinois.org</a>> wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Brandon,</div><div> </div><div>You have likely heard of this, but wanted to pass along just in case. Feel free to share.</div><div> </div><div>-- <br>Barbara Webster<br>Regional Coordinator<br>
Broadband Illinois/PCI<br>
<a href="http://www.broadbandillinois.org/" target="_blank">www.broadbandillinois.org</a> <br><a href="tel:618-843-8433" value="+16188438433" target="_blank">618-843-8433</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Roxana Ryan</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roxana.ryan@broadbandillinois.org" target="_blank">roxana.ryan@broadbandillinois.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:59 PM<br>Subject: Illinois Open Technology Challenge | Challenge<br>To: Brad Housewright <<a href="mailto:brad.housewright@broadbandillinois.org" target="_blank">brad.housewright@broadbandillinois.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:ernest.sanders@broadbandillinois.org" target="_blank">ernest.sanders@broadbandillinois.org</a>, Barb Webster <<a href="mailto:barbara.webster@broadbandillinois.org" target="_blank">barbara.webster@broadbandillinois.org</a>>, Clayton Black <a href="mailto:clayton.black@broadbandillinois.org" target="_blank">clayton.black@broadbandillinois.org</a><br>
<br><br><div dir="auto"><div><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u><h1 style="padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="3" face="Helvetica"><span style="line-height:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Challenge</span></font></h1>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The Illinois Open Technology Challenge brings governments, developers, and communities together in a common mission to use public data to create digital tools that serve civic needs and promote economic development.</span></p>
<p style="margin:15px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">This multi-month initiative aims to make Illinois’ open data platform,<a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" href="http://www.data.illinois.gov/" target="_blank">Data.Illinois.Gov</a>, available statewide, and host government trainings, community meetings and hackathons that will bring together developers in technology with civic-minded individuals and organizations. Our goal is to help develop a real community where we will see sustainable civic results and developers will prosper.</span></p>
<p style="margin:15px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Through the generous support of the State of Illinois, Illinois Science & Technology Coalition, The Chicago Community Trust, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the Motorola Mobility Foundation, at least $65K in total prize money will be awarded to any individual, or team of individuals for developing innovative software applications that utilize open government data to best address the challenges in one of our communities: Belleville, Champaign, Rockford and South Suburbs.</span></p>
<p style="margin:15px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The broad criteria is as follows:</span></p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 10.5px 25px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;vertical-align:baseline">
<li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Use at least one dataset from <a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">www.data.illinois.gov</a>, <a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">www.metrochicagodata.org</a>, or <a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">www.ssatlas.org</a>.</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Use and/or publish as much open source code as possible</span></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Attempt to solve a community problem</span></li></ul><p style="margin:15px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The first step in all of this is to come together as a community to share code, review data, and talk about what issues we want to try to solve through technology. Here’s the schedule of first meetings:</span></p>
<ul style="margin:0px 0px 10.5px 25px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;vertical-align:baseline"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association: Tuesday, November 27</span></li>
<li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Rockford: Late November 2012</span></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Belleville: Early December 2012</span></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Champaign: Early December 2012</span></li>
</ul><p style="margin:15px 0px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Are you interested in attending one of these meetings? <a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" href="http://eepurl.com/oCLdf" target="_blank">Join our list</a> and let us know. Remember: this is about solving local issues with data and technology. You don’t have to live in one of these areas– you just have to be interested in solving problems there!</span></p>
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