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Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
Wed Jun 5, 2013, 01:49 PM Jun 2013

white house hosts a 'hackathon'

lol, see the white house hacked. fun for all.

Civic Hacking at the White House: We the People, by the People


This past Saturday, more than 11,000 civic activists, technology experts, and entrepreneurs around the country came together for the National Day of Civic Hacking. Civic activists, technology experts, and entrepreneurs in 83 cities developed software to help others in their own neighborhoods and across the country. More than twenty federal agencies took part by submitting challenges for participants to tackle and opening up datasets for them to use.

more http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog

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white house hosts a 'hackathon' (Original Post) Sunlei Jun 2013 OP
have to post to myself about official 'hackathon' here's a link to the apps the group created Sunlei Jun 2013 #1

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
1. have to post to myself about official 'hackathon' here's a link to the apps the group created
Wed Jun 5, 2013, 02:26 PM
Jun 2013

[link:|


https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/how-why/api-gallery

I've used the petition website and your group does get an official answer. Some of these apps will help users gain sigs through twitter and private websites. Just knew when President O was new Pres. and 'a blackberry wearing' man' so many years ago, good things would happen to computerize America

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