Civic Hacking in Bloomington, Indiana

What is Civic Hacking? To paraphrase this article on opengovdata.io:

“Civic hackers are programmers, designers, data scientists, good communicators, civic organizers, entrepreneurs, government employees and anyone willing to get her hands dirty solving problems.”

We’re a Code for America Brigade.

Stay in the loop

There is a Slack group set up: bmghack.slack.com

Link to join(updated 2020.02)

We’ve also configured a low volume Google Group so that everyone can stay connected: Google Group

Meeting schedule

Meetings happen on the first Thursday of every month, although lately more activity has been happening on Slack. Tech skills aren’t necessary to participate, only a willingness to collaborate to make our community better.

Our scheduled meetings are:

Google Calendar

Meetup

Projects

Have an idea for a civic problem that needs a solution? Add it to the project page and find others interested in solving the problem. You can also browse code for america’s civic tech project page for additional ideas.

More info & Supporting documents