[open-government] [NDoCH Event Organizers] Open Data Challenge | Getting City In The Mix

Mon Jun 2 01:48:29 UTC 2014

I sent this fyi to the head of okfn.

And now to okfn's open gov group for help.
On Jun 1, 2014 12:17 PM, <slooker at codeforamerica.org> wrote:

> We had teams this weekend that did nothing but work on getting these data
> sets filled out for that census, which included people from our city
> government.
>
> I asked on twitter yesterday and tagged @CodeForAmerica and #CodeFind but
> hadn't gotten a response yet about approving the changes that we had
> submitted.  My city is there, I was just hoping that they would approve the
> updates.
>
> My co-captain suggested that if a city had a local brigade, if it would be
> possible for the captains of the local brigade to do approvals for their
> own cities?  Would that be something that is possible?
>
> On Sunday, June 1, 2014 8:10:00 AM UTC-7, Kelly Storm wrote:
>>
>>  Good morning everyone,
>>
>> That said, can someone direct me to the right resource/person/entity that
>> is capable of updating the US City Open Data Census list (
>> http://us-city.census.okfn.org/)? We reached out yesterday to add
>> Athens, GA to the list, and there are a few people and government officials
>> ready to populate datasets the second the list itself is updated.
>>
>> Hope the coffee is working. No doubt everyone's exhausted, but we're all
>> genuinely blowing it out of the water, keep at it, and as always if there's
>> anything Athens and Hack For Athens can do to help, please just let me
>> know.
>>
>> #hackforchange
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> k
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