[dvlug] Meeting tonight, Fri Apr 26th at Caffe La Scala

[Grant Bowman]

Hi there,

Lots has been going on this week. April always seems to be a busy time.

Ubuntu released 13.04 aka Raring Ringtail this week and announced that
13.10 is named Saucy Salamander.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2013-April/000171.html

I found the attached Code For America newsletter interesting and
thought others on this list might as well.

Please let us know what you think of our podcast episodes and
recommend people or projects you would like to hear about.

We meet on the second and fourth Friday of each month. Join us at
Caffe La Scala, 1655 N Main St in Walnut Creek. Details with map links
are always available. http://dvlug.org If you can't make the meeting
feel free to ask questions on this email list. Apparently kind
spirited suggestions welcome.

    http://dvlug.org

Cheers,

Grant Bowman


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From: Code for America <meta at codeforamerica.org>
Date: Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:43 AM
Subject: #meta's New Marketplace


http://codeforamerica.org/blog/
http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=d9acf2a4c694efbd76a48936f&id=a031125d2c&e=cbb9a003c6

	April 2013 Edition

  	meta 	
  		
  	
A New Age in America
	
  	  	
  	
A New Age in America
	  	Last year when we (Code for America) began officially supporting
civic startups, we created a program to support companies that build
tools that help government work more effectively and transparently. We
call it the Code for America Accelerator. Ever since then, our
organization and our officespace has become a hotbed of
entrepreneurial energy — right now more than nine startups share our
space, and six of them are civic-focused. This expansion within our
small corner of the civic technology ecosystem is in some ways
reflective of a bigger story... more >
	
  		
  	JEN’S HIGHLIGHTS 	
  	  	
  	At a Chinese restaurant last weekend, my fortune cookie read: You
are a deep thinker and a good problem solver.

I was flattered by my cookie’s opinion, but the thought that sprang to
mind was that the fortune was an excellent description of the Code for
America board.

Many non-profit boards serve primarily a governance function, making
sure we’re on mission, financially stable, and not doing anything too
crazy. Ours certainly does that, but their real value is they way they
help us think through our strategy, align our activities with the
impact we want to have, and solve problems. It’s really more of
brain-and-heart-trust pointed at the engines of Code for America, and
for that I’m hugely grateful. more >
  		
  	NOTEWORTHY NEWS 	
  	  	
  	Lean Startups and the Rise of Iterative Placemaking
by Lou Huang

Sometimes, when people hear “Code for America” they might assume that
we fellows are all computer programmers, but quite a few of us have
backgrounds in architecture, urban design, city planning, community
organizing, transportation, and housing policy.

	
  	  	
  	

	Open Source All the Things!
by Jessica Lord 		How Innovation Spreads
by Lauren Dyson
  	  	  	
	50 Applications for 2014
by Luke Norris 		Peace Corps for Geeks [full text here]
by Brian Walsh, Time Magazine
	
  	  	
  	Participate - Events 	
  	  	
  	
1. 	Startups: Apply for the Accelerator.
  	
2. 	Intern w/ CfA this summer.
  	
3. 	Step up to be a 2014 Fellow.
  	
4. 	Feeling philanthropic? Donate.
	
May 9
SF Accelerator Drink-up
Join join Code for America staff and startups from the inaugural CfA
Accelerator to learn first-hand about the program.


	
  		
  	APP OF THE MONTH 	
  	  	
  	Streetmix

This fun app emerged from a January hackathon (inspired by last year's
Blockee), and allows users to design a street buy clicking and draggin
bike lanes, car lanes, lane dividers, etc. — it's literally a "
Digital Mixing Board for Your street."
  	  	
EAVESDROPPING 	Damn! The @codeforamerica annual report is so hot I
want to lick the screen. Nice work! http://annual.codeforamerica.org

< @georgeaye > 	

  	Fellowship

Spending a week living on a $32.17 food budget. Shadowing a homeless
shelter caseworker. Riding shotgun on a midnight police patrol. Hiking
portions of a 110 mile canal trail. Spending time in jail (just
visiting). Jogging through the city with the Mayor. What do all of
these have in common? more > 	  	Peer Network

Called “a geek squad of civic-minded number-crunchers” by the New York
Times in a recent profile, the predictive analytics team led by City
of New York’s Chief Analytics Officer Mike Flowers is pioneering new
approaches in the field of civic data. Working out of the Mayor’s
office this groundbreaking group of civic hackers inside City Hall is
pushing forward some of the most innovative and effective uses of
civic analytics — and they have the results to show for it.
more > 	  	Brigade

April is National Volunteer Month and right now it’s National
Volunteer Week. The point of “National…Month/Week/Day” recognitions
like this is, well, recognition. Volunteers give their time every day.
It’s now time to say, Thank You. And, we best honor our volunteers
when we can tell them, and everyone, “Here’s what your contributions
did last year to make a difference.” more >
  		
  	Thanks 	
  	  	
  	We would like to acknowledge the Omidyar Network for their
continued and generous support of our programming.

Special thanks as well to:

    EMC, for their second year of support for the Data Science Fellowship
    Skoll Foundation, for their grants to finalists in the Huffington
Post JobRaising Challenge, including CfA

Fellowship community match support (for this past month) // South
Bend: St. Joseph Regional Medical Center

VMWare Foundation // Jonah Kim // Chris Cocchiaraley // Carl Larsson
// Herbert Kanner

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