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Wanted: Volunteer Web Developer for NYC Parks Project

The Open Planning Project is partnering with the PenTales Storytelling Projects to develop an interactive web app for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. The application will serve as an interactive platform for New Yorkers of all ages to share and collaborate on stories they have produced through hand-writing, digital-writing, photography, moving Read more...
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Fans & Advocates Select their favorite Streetfilms!

For the end of this year, Streetfilms decided to do something fun: ask some of the most influential livable streets advocates, personalities, journalists and web folk which of the 90 films Read more...
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Held hostage

There’s a nice post from David Eaves today on the need for a “MuniForge” — a repository for open source municipal software.  Without getting too into the details, I wanted to point out one line that really struck a chord with me, discussing the conundrum that governments find themselves in when procuring proprietary software: …most solutions Read more...
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Living Plans

At last night’s PlanningTech workshop, we diagrammed out planning processes to see where the insertion of technology might have been helpful.  The processes we looked at ranged from seemingly simple (getting a bike rack installed on your street) to massively complex (advocating for funding for MTA’s capital plan). Keep an eye out for digitized versions Read more...
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Dec 11 & 12 – Open NY Summit

December 11, 2009 10:00 amtoDecember 12, 2009 6:00 pm

City and state are the next frontier for open government. New York boasts many leading open government projects at the federal, state, and municipal level that touch on a range of government agencies.

On Dec 11 & 12, TOPP is hosting the Open NY Summit. The event is organized by the Open NY Forum, and we are excited to be a part of it.

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GothamSchools Annual Benefit

December 9, 2009
5:30 pmto8:00 pm
Come one, come all, to a party celebrating GothamSchools’ first year bringing our readers up-to-date news and analysis about the New York City public schools. At the party, on Dec. 9, we’ll Read more...
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