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Welcome to The Civic Hacker
Hello and welcome to the Civic Hacker.
How do we change the world for the better, using technology? We don’t know, but we won’t let that stop us from talking about it. That’s what we’ll be talking about on this blog.
“We” is the members of The Open Planning Project (TOPP), and the TOPP Labs group.
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The Beekeeper
As we prepare our new Enterprise offering around the OpenGeo Suite (PostGIS, GeoServer, OpenLayers, GeoExt), I have been researching open source business models. The more I read, the more I Read more...
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Seattle Streets for People kicks off
Great news from the Project for Public Spaces blog. Seattle's Streets for People is starting up. Streets for People is a collaborative campaign to create and implement a new vision for streets as thriving public spaces. Here's hope this left coast NYCSR gets off to a smashing start.Modeled in many ways after the ‘open source’ Read more...
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We’re Hiring!
Two exciting job opportunities at TOPP:
We’re looking for a software developer with a passion for livable
streets and a penchant for developing user-friendly interfaces to join
our team. Work with writers, videographers, open source software
developers, and other online activists to build web-based tools that
support a movement.
With major transportation, climate, and energy legislation coming
before Congress in Read more...
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Article in Open Source Business Resource
Update: Now also in Directions Magazine.
Paul Ramsey has written an article for the Open Source Business Resource. Money quote:
Open source geospatial holds a number of lessons for other vertical markets. Read more...
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Calling all students for Google Summer of Code 2009