[{"id":"314693325","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech – Hacknight session #148","date":"2026-06-17T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"The Rideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre","address":"815 St-Laurent Boulevard","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry","Susana Guerrero","Max Peacock"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/1/e/1/highres_534128673.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2026-06-17-314693325.jpeg","description_markdown":"Join us for Ottawa Civic Tech’s last meetup before our summer break! This won’t be a regular hacknight, instead, we’ll come together to celebrate the progress, momentum, and impact our community has built over the past season.\nThe evening will feature project demos from community members, plenty of time to connect and socialize, and a chance to reflect on what we’ve accomplished together.\n\n**Agenda (EST)**\n\n* 6:00 p.m. — Networking\n\n* 6:30 p.m. — Welcome + introductions\n\n* 7:00 p.m. — [Project demos](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Utp73r8vmRxp51NTOU7H2iVrf1Tpipwn1kPf2fpQU7Q/edit?usp=sharing)\n\n* 8:00 p.m. — Social time\n\n**More about Ottawa Civic Tech**\nUsing tech to do civic good. Ottawa Civic Tech (#YOWCT) connects people across sectors and silos to solve tough problems and make our communities better together.\nEveryone is welcome, whether you want to learn, meet new people, share your expertise, or explore how you might contribute.\n\n**Want to know more?**\n\n[Follow us on LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/company/ottawa-civic-tech/)\nVisit [ottawacivictech.ca](https://www.ottawacivictech.ca/)","attendee_count":33,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/314693325/","slug":"2026-06-17-314693325"},{"id":"314693315","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech – Hacknight session #147","date":"2026-05-20T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Human-Centred Design Lab - Algonquin College","address":"1385 Woodroffe Avenue, Building C, Room C128, Ottawa, ON, K2G 1V8","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry","Susana Guerrero","Max Peacock"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/1/c/4/highres_534128644.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2026-05-20-314693315.jpeg","description_markdown":"Join us for Ottawa Civic Tech’s next hacknight. A welcoming space for anyone interested in using tech to do civic good.\nOur members bring all kinds of skills, like design, policy, community engagement, software development, data, and more to explore ideas, solve tough problems, and make our communities better, together.\n\n**Agenda (EST):**\n6:00 p.m. — Networking\n6:30 p.m. — Welcome + introductions\n7:00 p.m. — Breakouts and project discussions\n\n**More about Ottawa Civic Tech**\nUsing tech to do civic good. Ottawa Civic Tech (#YOWCT) connects people across sectors and silos to solve tough problems and make our communities better together.\nEveryone is welcome, whether you want to learn, meet new people, share your expertise, or explore how you might contribute.\n\n**Want to know more?**\n\n[Follow us on LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/company/ottawa-civic-tech/)\nVisit [ottawacivictech.ca](https://www.ottawacivictech.ca/)","attendee_count":28,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/314693315/","slug":"2026-05-20-314693315"},{"id":"313711764","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech – Hacknight session #146","date":"2026-04-22T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Carleton University, Nicol Building","address":"1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry","Susana Guerrero","Max Peacock"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/4/8/9/4/highres_533118580.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2026-04-22-313711764.jpeg","description_markdown":"Join us for Ottawa Civic Tech’s next hacknight. A welcoming space for anyone interested in using tech to do civic good.\nOur members bring all kinds of skills, like design, policy, community engagement, software development, data, and more to explore ideas, solve tough problems, and make our communities better, together.\n\n**Agenda (EST):**\n6:00 p.m. — Networking\n6:30 p.m. — Welcome + introductions\n7:00 p.m. — Breakouts and project discussions\n\n**More about Ottawa Civic Tech**\nUsing tech to do civic good. Ottawa Civic Tech (#YOWCT) connects people across sectors and silos to solve tough problems and make our communities better together.\nEveryone is welcome, whether you want to learn, meet new people, share your expertise, or explore how you might contribute.\n\n**Want to know more?**\n\n[Follow us on LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/company/ottawa-civic-tech/)\nVisit [ottawacivictech.ca](https://www.ottawacivictech.ca/)","attendee_count":40,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/313711764/","slug":"2026-04-22-313711764"},{"id":"313711755","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech – Hacknight session #145","date":"2026-03-25T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Carleton University, Nicol Building","address":"1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry","Susana Guerrero","Max Peacock"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/4/7/b/f/highres_533118367.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2026-03-25-313711755.jpeg","description_markdown":"Join us for Ottawa Civic Tech’s next hacknight. A welcoming space for anyone interested in using tech to do civic good.\nOur members bring all kinds of skills, like design, policy, community engagement, software development, data, and more to explore ideas, solve tough problems, and make our communities better, together.\n\n**Agenda (EST):**\n6:00 p.m. — Networking\n6:30 p.m. — Welcome + introductions\n7:00 p.m. — Breakouts and project discussions\n\n**More about Ottawa Civic Tech**\nUsing tech to do civic good. Ottawa Civic Tech (#YOWCT) connects people across sectors and silos to solve tough problems and make our communities better together.\nEveryone is welcome, whether you want to learn, meet new people, share your expertise, or explore how you might contribute.\n\n**Want to know more?**\n\n[Follow us on LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/company/ottawa-civic-tech/)\nVisit [ottawacivictech.ca](https://www.ottawacivictech.ca/)","attendee_count":38,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/313711755/","slug":"2026-03-25-313711755"},{"id":"313102815","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech – Hacknight session #144","date":"2026-02-18T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"The Rideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre","address":"815 St-Laurent Boulevard","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry","Susana Guerrero","Max Peacock"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/0/7/6/highres_532485174.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2026-02-18-313102815.jpeg","description_markdown":"Join us for Ottawa Civic Tech’s next hacknight. A welcoming space for anyone interested in using tech to do civic good.\nOur members bring all kinds of skills, like design, policy, community engagement, software development, data, and more to explore ideas, solve tough problems, and make our communities better, together.\n\n**Agenda (EST):**\n6:00 p.m. — Networking\n6:30 p.m. — Welcome + introductions\n7:00 p.m. — Breakouts and project discussions\n\n**More about Ottawa Civic Tech**\nUsing tech to do civic good. Ottawa Civic Tech (#YOWCT) connects people across sectors and silos to solve tough problems and make our communities better together.\nEveryone is welcome, whether you want to learn, meet new people, share your expertise, or explore how you might contribute.\n\n**Want to know more?**\n\n[Follow us on LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/company/ottawa-civic-tech/)\nVisit [ottawacivictech.ca](https://www.ottawacivictech.ca/)","attendee_count":55,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/313102815/","slug":"2026-02-18-313102815"},{"id":"312394926","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech – Hacknight session #143","date":"2026-01-21T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Human-Centred Design Lab - Algonquin College","address":"1385 Woodroffe Avenue, Building C, Room C128, Ottawa, ON, K2G 1V8","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry","Susana Guerrero","Max Peacock"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/4/6/7/e/highres_531738046.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2026-01-21-312394926.jpeg","description_markdown":"Join us for Ottawa Civic Tech’s next hacknight. A welcoming space for anyone interested in using tech to do civic good.\nOur members bring all kinds of skills, like design, policy, community engagement, software development, data, and more to explore ideas, solve tough problems, and make our communities better, together.\n\n**Agenda (EST):**\n6:00 p.m. — Networking\n6:30 p.m. — Welcome + introductions\n7:00 p.m. — Breakouts and project discussions\n\n**More about Ottawa Civic Tech**\nUsing tech to do civic good. Ottawa Civic Tech (#YOWCT) connects people across sectors and silos to solve tough problems and make our communities better together.\nEveryone is welcome, whether you want to learn, meet new people, share your expertise, or explore how you might contribute.\n\n**Want to know more?**\n\n[Follow us on LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/company/ottawa-civic-tech/)\nVisit [ottawacivictech.ca](https://www.ottawacivictech.ca/)","attendee_count":67,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/312394926/","slug":"2026-01-21-312394926"},{"id":"312081191","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech – Hacknight session #142 & community project demo","date":"2025-12-10T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Carleton University, Sprott School of Business, Nicol Building","address":"1125 Colonel By Drive, Nicol Building, Room 5010, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry","Susana Guerrero","Max Peacock","Em Wilson"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/e/9/9/highres_531592889.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2025-12-10-312081191.jpeg","description_markdown":"Join us for Ottawa Civic Tech’s next hacknight. A welcoming space for anyone interested in using tech to do civic good.\nYou *don’t* need to be a “techie” to join us. Our members bring all kinds of skills, like design, policy, community engagement, software development, data, and more to explore ideas, solve tough problems, and make our communities better, together.\n\n**Agenda (EST):**\n6:00 p.m. — Networking\n6:30 p.m. — Welcome + introductions\n7:00 p.m. — Breakouts and project discussions\n\n**More about Ottawa Civic Tech**\nUsing tech to do civic good. Ottawa Civic Tech (#YOWCT) connects people across sectors and silos to solve tough problems and make our communities better together.\nEveryone is welcome, whether you want to learn, meet new people, share your expertise, or explore how you might contribute.\n\n**Want to know more?**\n\n[Follow us on LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/company/ottawa-civic-tech/)\n[Visit ottawacivictech.ca](https://www.ottawacivictech.ca/)","attendee_count":49,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/312081191/","slug":"2025-12-10-312081191"},{"id":"311561736","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech #141 - Community in a Box","date":"2025-10-28T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"The Rideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre","address":"815 St-Laurent Boulevard","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry","Susana Guerrero","Em Wilson","Max Peacock"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/c/c/7/highres_530771463.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2025-10-28-311561736.jpeg","description_markdown":"Join us for a special community meetup, co-organized with the Rideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre, where the team behind *Community in a Box* will share their bold vision for a new kind of digital platform — one that is owned, governed, and shaped by the communities it serves.\nYou’ll get to see a **live demo of their progress**, hear about their vision, share your ideas, and find out how you can get involved in building a healthier digital future for our neighbourhood, from the ground up.\nFor more information about the project, visit: *[Community in a Box](https://luclalande.medium.com/community-in-a-box-incubation-and-barn-raising-f5a8f57e4d02)*\n\n**Agenda**\n6:00 PM - Doors open / networking\n7:00 PM - Main event\n***\n\n**More about Ottawa Civic Tech**\nUsing tech to do civic good. Ottawa Civic Tech (#YOWCT) connects people across sectors and silos to solve tough problems and make our communities better together.\nAs a civic tech group we provide a space for motivated individuals to connect and create projects for civic good. Community members bring their interests, insights, or skillsets like design, policy, community engagement, software development, and more.\nAll are welcome, including if you just want to learn and meet people, or if you’re not yet sure how you can contribute.\n\n**Want to know more?**\n\n* [Follow us on LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/company/ottawa-civic-tech/)\n\n* [Ottawacivictech.ca](https://www.ottawacivictech.ca/)","attendee_count":52,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/311561736/","slug":"2025-10-28-311561736"},{"id":"310871762","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech #140 – Fall Kickoff & Community Social","date":"2025-09-24T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Heart & Crown on Preston","address":"353B Preston Street","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":null,"speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry","Leigh-Ann","Susana Guerrero","Max Peacock","Em Wilson"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/e/b/0/highres_530008336.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2025-09-24-310871762.jpeg","description_markdown":"We’re back! Join us as we kick off a new season of Ottawa Civic Tech—bringing together motivated individuals to connect, collaborate, and build projects for civic good.\nThis time, there’s no guest speaker. Instead, we’re making space for informal conversations, small group discussions, project updates, and idea-sharing.\nBring your interests, insights, and skills—whether in design, policy, software development, community engagement, activism, or beyond—and join a welcoming community of people working to make a positive impact.\n\n**Agenda**\n6:30 PM – Doors open & casual networking\n7:00 PM – Welcome + quick community update\n7:15 PM – Open social time\n\n**More about Ottawa Civic Tech**\nUsing tech to do civic good. Ottawa Civic Tech (#YOWCT) connects people across sectors and silos to solve tough problems and make our communities better together.\nAs a civic tech group we provide a space for motivated individuals to connect and create projects for civic good. Community members bring their interests, insights, or skillsets like design, policy, community engagement, software development, and more.\nAll are welcome, including if you just want to learn and meet people, or if you’re not yet sure how you can contribute.\n\n**Stay connected**\n\n* Learn more at [ottawacivictech.ca](https://www.ottawacivictech.ca/)\n\n* [Follow us on LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/company/ottawa-civic-tech/)","attendee_count":45,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/310871762/","slug":"2025-09-24-310871762"},{"id":"308330816","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech #139 – Summer Social: Connect, Reflect & Look Ahead","date":"2025-06-18T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Lowertown Brewery","address":"73 York Street (Byward Market)","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Susana Guerrero","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Susana Guerrero","Brett Tackaberry","Kent Aitken"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/8/6/3/highres_528386723.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2025-06-18-308330816.jpeg","description_markdown":"**Let’s celebrate a great year of reconnecting, collaborating, and exploring how technology can support civic good.**\nFor this session, we're going to focus on creating social time and space instead of a guest speaker, as the last Ottawa Civic Tech meetup before taking a summer break.\nOver the past 13 months, we’ve rebuilt momentum, welcomed fresh faces, and uncovered opportunities to make a positive impact—and we’re just getting started. Whether you’ve been with Ottawa Civic Tech since the early days or are just discovering the group, this is a chance to come together, share what we’ve learned, and take a quick look at what’s coming next.\n\n**Agenda**\n6:30 PM – Open networking\n7:00 PM – Welcome and introductions\n7:15 PM – A quick look back at 13 months of Ottawa Civic Tech and a quick look ahead\n7:30 PM – Social\n\n**More about Ottawa Civic Tech**\nUsing tech to do civic good. Ottawa Civic Tech (#YOWCT) connects people across sectors and silos to solve tough problems and make our communities better together.\nAs a civic tech group we provide a space for motivated individuals to connect and create projects for civic good. Community members bring their interests, insights, or skillsets like design, policy, community engagement, software development, and more.\nAll are welcome, including if you just want to learn and meet people, or if you’re not yet sure how you can contribute.\n\n**Stay connected**\n\n* Learn more at [ottawacivictech.ca](https://www.ottawacivictech.ca/)\n\n* [Follow us on LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/company/ottawa-civic-tech/)","attendee_count":47,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/308330816/","slug":"2025-06-18-308330816"},{"id":"307537719","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech #138 -  Civic Tech and Public Service","date":"2025-05-21T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA)","address":"979 Bank Street, Suite 400","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Susana Guerrero","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Susana Guerrero","Brett Tackaberry","Malavika Mahesh","Kent Aitken"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/7/d/4/highres_527710196.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2025-05-21-307537719.jpeg","description_markdown":"Join us for an evening of ideas, innovation, and inspiration at the intersection of civic tech and public service.\nSam Burton will kick off the evening by sharing new research from the Government of Canada’s Canadian Digital Service on how civic tech can help improve government service delivery. Then, we’ll hear from Claudie Larouche, a passionate builder of community tools, who will share how she uses technology to make everyday life easier for parents and families in Ottawa. We’ll round it out with Parth Shah’s presentation of Canadian Shield, CIRA’s free, public DNS resolver for family protection at home.\n\n**Agenda (EST):**\n\n* 6:00 p.m. - Networking\n\n* 6:30 p.m. - Welcome + introductions\n\n* 7:00 p.m. - Presentations - Sam Burton, Claudie Larouche, Parth Shah\n\n* 7:45 p.m. - Breakout and project discussions\n\n**CIRA is at 979 Bank Street, 4th Floor.**\n\n* Paid underground parking is available at Lansdowne TD Place – $4 normal hourly rate, higher for special event days. Residential street parking is available if you are adventurous, and there are several bike lock posts in front of the building on Bank street.\n\n* OC Transpo services the Lansdowne TD Place stop (100m from the office) with routes 6 Greenboro, 7 Carleton, 6 Rockcliffe, and 7 St-Laurent. Rack N' Roll available for routes 6 Greenboro and 6 Rockcliffe.\n\n**More about Ottawa Civic Tech**\nUsing tech to do civic good. Ottawa Civic Tech (#YOWCT) connects people across sectors and silos to solve tough problems and make our communities better together.\nAs a civic tech group we provide a space for motivated individuals to connect and create projects for civic good. Community members bring their interests, insights, or skillsets like design, policy, community engagement, software development, and more.\nAll are welcome, including if you just want to learn and meet people, or if you’re not yet sure how you can contribute.\n\n**Stay connected**\nLearn more at [ottawacivictech.ca](https://www.ottawacivictech.ca/)\n[Follow us on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ottawa-civic-tech/)","attendee_count":96,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/307537719/","slug":"2025-05-21-307537719"},{"id":"307153466","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech #137 - TaxGPT","date":"2025-04-23T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Institute on Governance","address":"60 George Street","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Ryan Androsoff","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Ryan Androsoff","Susana Guerrero","Kent Aitken","Brett Tackaberry"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/1/e/b/highres_527220491.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2025-04-23-307153466.jpeg","description_markdown":"[TaxGPT.ca](http://taxgpt.ca/) is a free AI service that answers questions about Canadian taxes using public government data. As of March 2025, TaxGPT has answered 45,000 questions. Come to learn about how TaxGPT works, how it’s built, and some insights about running an AI app in 2025 that people actually want to use.\n\n**Agenda (EST):**\n\n* 6:00 p.m. - Networking\n\n* 6:30 p.m. - Welcome + introductions\n\n* 7:00 p.m. - Presentation by Paul Craig\n\n* 7:30 p.m. - Breakout and project discussions\n\n**More about Ottawa Civic Tech**\nUsing tech to do civic good. Ottawa Civic Tech (#YOWCT) connects people across sectors and silos to solve tough problems and make our communities better together.\nAs a civic tech group we provide a space for motivated individuals to connect and create projects for civic good. Community members bring their interests, insights, or skillsets like design, policy, community engagement, software development, and more.\nAll are welcome, including if you just want to learn and meet people, or if you’re not yet sure how you can contribute.\nLearn more at: [https://www.ottawacivictech.ca](https://www.ottawacivictech.ca/)\nFollow us on LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/ottawa-civic-tech/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ottawa-civic-tech/)","attendee_count":87,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/307153466/","slug":"2025-04-23-307153466"},{"id":"305996772","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech #136 - National Capital FreeNet","date":"2025-02-26T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"123 Slater St. 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Susana Guerrero","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Susana Guerrero","Leigh-Ann","Brett Tackaberry","Malavika Mahesh","Kent Aitken"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/7/3/7/highres_526130999.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2025-02-26-305996772.jpeg","description_markdown":"Since its founding NCF has been committed to expanding internet access in the national capital region. Through the recently launched CommuniFi project, NCF builds upon its rich history of digital equity work to bring free WiFi services to communities that need it the most. Come learn about how this project came about, plans to strengthen the service and how you can support this work.\n\n**Agenda (EST):**\n\n* 6:00 p.m. - Networking\n\n* 6:30 p.m. - Welcome + introductions\n\n* 7:00 p.m. - Shelley Robinson and Andrew Martey-Asare\n\n* 7:30 p.m. - Breakout and project discussions\n\n**More about Ottawa Civic Tech**\nUsing tech to do civic good. Ottawa Civic Tech (#YOWCT) connects people across sectors and silos to solve tough problems and make our communities better together.\nAs a civic tech group we provide a space for motivated individuals to connect and create projects for civic good. Community members bring their interests, insights, or skillsets like design, policy, community engagement, software development, and more.\nAll are welcome, including if you just want to learn and meet people, or if you’re not yet sure how you can contribute.\nLearn more at: [https://www.ottawacivictech.ca](https://www.ottawacivictech.ca/)\nFollow us on LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/ottawa-civic-tech/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ottawa-civic-tech/)","attendee_count":55,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/305996772/","slug":"2025-02-26-305996772"},{"id":"305529568","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech #135 - From Civic Tech to Community Innovation & the RRCRC","date":"2025-01-22T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"The Rideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre","address":"815 St-Laurent Boulevard","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry","Susana Guerrero","Malavika Mahesh","Denise Eisner","Kent Aitken"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/8/e/c/7/highres_525636551.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2025-01-22-305529568.jpeg","description_markdown":"Join us for a community meetup and special session featuring two insightful speakers. Luc Lalande will discuss the importance of civic tech in community development, social impact, and the public good. Camila Pastran will share information about the Rideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre, its programming, and some of its unique initiatives.\n\n**Agenda (EST):**\n\n* 6:00 p.m. - Networking\n\n* 6:30 p.m. - Welcome + introductions\n\n* 7:00 p.m. - Luc Lalande and Camila Pastran, RRCRC\n\n* 7:30 p.m. - Breakout and project discussions\n\n**More about Ottawa Civic Tech**\nUsing tech to do civic good. Ottawa Civic Tech (#YOWCT) connects people across sectors and silos to solve tough problems and make our communities better together.\nAs a civic tech group we provide a space for motivated individuals to connect and create projects for civic good. Community members bring their interests, insights, or skillsets like design, policy, community engagement, software development, and more.\nAll are welcome, including if you just want to learn and meet people, or if you’re not yet sure how you can contribute.\nLearn more at: [https://www.ottawacivictech.ca](https://www.ottawacivictech.ca/)\nFollow us on LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/ottawa-civic-tech/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ottawa-civic-tech/)","attendee_count":51,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/305529568/","slug":"2025-01-22-305529568"},{"id":"304424907","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech #134 - Open Ottawa through open data, maps, and dashboards","date":"2024-11-20T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"The Senate Tavern on Bank","address":"1159 Bank St.","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Susana Guerrero","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Susana Guerrero","Kent Aitken","Malavika Mahesh","Denise Eisner"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/2/3/5/highres_524561525.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2024-11-20-304424907.jpeg","description_markdown":"## Details\nJoin us for a community meetup and to learn about different ways the City of Ottawa is making data about our city and municipal programs open for exploration and re-use.\n\n**Agenda (EST):**\n\n* 6:00 p.m. - Networking\n\n* 6:30 p.m. - Welcome + introductions\n\n* 7:00 p.m. - Darrell Bridge, Ben Dick, and Paul Steeves, City of Ottawa\n\n* 7:30 p.m. - Breakout and project discussions\n\n**More about Ottawa Civic Tech**\nUsing tech to do civic good. Ottawa Civic Tech (#YOWCT) connects people across sectors and silos to solve tough problems and make our communities better together.\nAs a civic tech group we provide a space for motivated individuals to connect and create projects for civic good. Community members bring their interests, insights, or skillsets like design, policy, community engagement, software development, and more.\nAll are welcome, including if you just want to learn and meet people, or if you’re not yet sure how you can contribute.\nLearn more at: [https://www.ottawacivictech.ca](https://www.ottawacivictech.ca/)\nFollow us on LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/ottawa-civic-tech/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ottawa-civic-tech/)","attendee_count":63,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/304424907/","slug":"2024-11-20-304424907"},{"id":"303831378","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech #133 - Lessons learned from Civic Tech Toronto","date":"2024-10-23T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Beyond The Pale","address":"250 City Centre Avenue","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry","Leigh-Ann","Celeste Cote","Kent Aitken"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/3/5/highres_523982613.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2024-10-23-303831378.jpeg","description_markdown":"As we get closer to adding new Ottawa projects to the roster, join us for a community meetup and special session with Civic Tech Toronto organizer, Gabe Sawhney on lessons learned from the Toronto chapter that we can apply to what's next.\n\n**Agenda (EST):**\n\n* 6:00 p.m. - Sign in\n\n* 6:30 p.m. - Welcome + introductions\n\n* 7:00 p.m. - Gabe Sawhney, Organizer, Civic Tech Toronto\n\n* 7:30 p.m. - Breakout discussions:\n\n**More about Ottawa Civic Tech**\nUsing tech to do civic good. Ottawa Civic Tech (#YOWCT) connects people across sectors and silos to solve tough problems and make our communities better together.\nAs a civic tech group we provide a space for motivated individuals to connect and create projects for civic good. Community members bring their interests, insights, or skillsets like design, policy, community engagement, software development, and more.\nAll are welcome, including if you just want to learn and meet people, or if you’re not yet sure how you can contribute.\nLearn more at: [https://www.ottawacivictech.ca](https://www.ottawacivictech.ca/)\nFollow us on LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/ottawa-civic-tech/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ottawa-civic-tech/)","attendee_count":70,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/303831378/","slug":"2024-10-23-303831378"},{"id":"303279929","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech: Unlocking Project Success with Design Thinking...","date":"2024-09-25T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Heart & Crown on Preston","address":"353B Preston Street","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Leigh-Ann","Brett Tackaberry","Kent Aitken","Valerie Patulot","Denise Eisner"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/c/1/5/highres_523587669.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2024-09-25-303279929.jpeg","description_markdown":"Ottawa Civic Tech returns with a special discussion on design thinking, as we get ready to launch an open call for community priorities and new projects for making positive change in our city.\nJoin us in person on September 25th at Heart & Crown Preston with guest speaker Dominira Saul for a talk on **Unlocking Project Success with Design Thinking and Strategic Problem Framing**.\nAfterwards, there’ll be smaller group discussion sessions on potential projects and themes of interest and a **Civic Tech 101 overview** for newcomers.\n\n**Agenda (EST):**\n6:30 p.m. - Sign in\n7:00 p.m. - Welcome + introductions\n7:30 p.m. - Speaker: **Dominira Saul, Principal, DFFRNT: Unlocking Project Success with Design Thinking and Strategic Problem Framing**\n8:00 p.m. - Breakout discussions:\n\n* Civic Tech Ottawa 101\n\n* Open call for new projects and themes of interest\n\n**Getting there:**\nHeart and Crown Preston, 353B Preston Street\nYou can take the #85 bus from from Pimisi (from east) or Bayshore/Carlingwood (from west), or the #2 from Bayview. There’s a cycling and walking path parallel to Preston along the O-Train Line 2, from which you can turn east onto Aberdeen and continue one block.\n\n**More about Ottawa Civic Tech**\nUsing tech to do civic good. Ottawa Civic Tech (#YOWCT) connects people across sectors and silos to solve tough problems and make our communities better together.\nAs a civic tech group we provide a space for motivated individuals to connect and create projects for civic good. Community members bring their interests, insights, or skillsets like design, policy, community engagement, software development, and more.\nAll are welcome, including if you just want to learn and meet people, or if you’re not yet sure how you can contribute.\nLearn more at: [https://www.ottawacivictech.ca](https://www.ottawacivictech.ca/)","attendee_count":49,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/303279929/","slug":"2024-09-25-303279929"},{"id":"301223259","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech Revival","date":"2024-06-26T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Aulde Dubliner & Pour House - ByWard Market, Ottawa ON","address":"62 William St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry","Ryan Androsoff","Celeste Cote","Kent Aitken"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/8/1/6/7/highres_521373127.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2024-06-26-301223259.jpeg","description_markdown":"Ottawa Civic Tech (YOWCT) is a community of citizens from diverse sectors and experiences who are interested in better understanding our complex social and civic challenges and building solutions at the intersection of technology, design, data, policy, entrepreneurship, advocacy, and citizen engagement. First launched in 2016, Ottawa Civic Tech took a break for obvious reasons in early 2020 - now it's time to revive it!\nThis will be a networking event for anyone interested in Ottawa Civic Tech, in reconnecting with each other, and in helping determine a future direction.\n\n**Agenda**\n18:00 - Social time\n18:10 - Welcome and Introductions (everyone included) - Your name + ***One hopeful headline from the future.***\n\n- an Introduction from Synapcity\\, Data for Good\\, others?\n18:30 - Where we are now and where we came from\n\n- What is Civic Tech?\n\n- Civic Tech Ottawa history\n\n- Past project: Lucas on GoC Spending (which has grown into https://govcanadacontracts.ca/)\n\n- Any other projects?\n19:00 - The future of Ottawa Civic Tech\n\n- report on the survey results (Ryan and Celeste)\n\n- Breakout group Session 1: (10min discussion\\, 10min report back to group):\nShould we contribute to projects? What types of projects? Existing projects? Examples?\n\n- Breakout group Session 2: (10min discussion\\, 10min report back to group):\nDo we want to have speakers? How do we want to organize (Slack, Google group, etc)? How many times per month (what night)?\n\n**A survey**\nHelp us shape the future of Civic Tech Ottawa by [completing this survey](https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YOWCTMemberSurvey2024) sharing your interests, skills, and event preferences. Your feedback will guide future programming and help us serve the needs and interests of our community.","attendee_count":111,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/301223259/","slug":"2024-06-26-301223259"},{"id":"273162098","title":"Civic Tech Ottawa Organizers (and New Organizers) Meeting","date":"2020-09-15T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":60,"venue":{"name":"Online event","address":"","city":"","is_online":true},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry","Lucas Cherkewski","Douglas Vidal-Hernandez"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2020-09-15-273162098.jpeg","description_markdown":"Hi Civic Tech Ottawa members,\nWould you like to get more involved and help in co-organizing Civic Tech Ottawa for the next little while? If so, please join us for a Zoom meeting for organizers (and those interested in becoming organizers) on Tuesday September 15th 6-7pm. You will see the Zoom link in this Meetup once you RSVP.\nWe have a few key organizers who are continuing to support but we are looking to bring more organizers on and to get ideas from those interested in co-organizing with us. Everyone is welcome with the only requirement being that you are looking to contribute to an inclusive civic tech community. There are opportunities to take on small and larger roles. We anticipate most if not all gatherings and supporting work will be online for the coming months. We’ll start with a roundtable discussion on people’s ideas for the coming fall and spring. We hope to see you there! If you are interested in helping with organizing but are unable to make it to this meeting, please shoot us a message  and we'll try to loop you in.\nOttawa Civic Tech Co-organizers (soon to be including you, if you want to be one :))","attendee_count":9,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/273162098/","slug":"2020-09-15-273162098"},{"id":"270257104","title":"Discussion night Session #131: Civic Tech x IOG Policy Crunch","date":"2020-05-05T17:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Online event","address":"","city":"","is_online":true},"speaker":"Lucas Cherkewski","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Lucas Cherkewski","Ryan Androsoff"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2020-05-05-270257104.jpeg","description_markdown":"To change things up in May, we’re co-hosting the Institute on Governance (IOG) Policy Crunch event, “The future of digital governance in a post-pandemic world”. See the end of this Meetup invite for the full description.\nRegister for this free event through IOG here: https://iog.ca/events/digital-governance-post-pandemic/ (*be sure to register through IOG to get the videoconference login provided to you the day of the event)\n\n==============\nSpeaking:\n\n- Jaimie Boyd (Chief Digital Officer, Government of British Columbia)\n\n- David Eaves (Lecturer of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School)\n\n- Jesse Hirsh (President, Metaviews.ca)\n\n- Shingai Manjengwa (CEO Fireside Analytics & Technical Education Specialist, Vector Institute)\nModerator: Ryan Androsoff (Director of Digital Leadership Program, Institute on Governance)\n==============\nAgenda:\n17:30-18:00 EST - Log-in to videoconferencing system and virtual intros and networking\n18:00-19:00 EST - Policy Crunch panel discussion with audience Q&A\n19:00-19:30 EST - Ottawa Civic Tech presentation and discussion\n==============\nEvent description:\nOur world has changed dramatically in the past few weeks as a result of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. Governments have been in crisis mode responding to the immediate health and economic impacts of the pandemic, while at the same time seeing many of their processes and operations disrupted by the need to work, collaborate, and deliver services in a fully digital way like never before.\nOnce the immediate crisis has passed, the question remains as to what long-term changes to government and society will we see as a result? Will the \"new normal\" of the post-pandemic world see digital government efforts be accelerated with employees continuing to work remotely and services increasingly delivered online? This Policy Crunch will explore these issues and the impact that the pandemic response is having on related topics such as privacy and cyber security, the use of AI and data analytics, and the skills and competencies needed for government and citizens to effectively engage in a digital world.\nThis will be IOG's first fully online Policy Crunch as we follow current social distancing guidelines. Please register via Eventbrite on the IOG event page and login details and instructions for our videoconference platform will be sent to you in advance of the session. A live stream of the proceedings will also be available on YouTube and archived for later access, similar to regular practice for Policy Crunch events.","attendee_count":12,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/270257104/","slug":"2020-05-05-270257104"},{"id":"269740173","title":"Discussion night Sesion #130 (Virtual Session) ft. Kim Girling ","date":"2020-04-07T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Online event","address":"","city":"","is_online":true},"speaker":"Kim Girling","speaker_org":null,"hosts":[],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2020-04-07-269740173.jpeg","description_markdown":"Please join us Tuesday April 7 after 6pm on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/166458618?pwd=bHBIVnVaMTRxSmRXaUp2dVFkbk1Fdz09\nPer Ottawa Public Health’s request to practice social distancing, we'll hold this meetup virtually. The meetup itself will start at/around 6:30pm.\n\n---\nYou're invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's second Zoom MeetUp during physical distancing!\nOttawa Civic Tech \"hacknights\" and presentation nights are held Tuesday evenings once or twice a month from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights and presentation nights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\n==============\nPresenting/Demoing:\n\n- Kimberly Girling from Evidence for Democracy is joining us for the discussion and Q and A to talk about the role of science in informing the public policy response to COVID-19.\n\n- We'll also do a roundtable to share the local and global civic projects that folks are aware of, including hackathons and crowdsourced initiatives like: https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/home, https://codevid19.com/, http://garage48.org/hackthecrisis/,\n\n- You?*\n*We're looking for community members with projects to demo or present — if you're interested, please contact us on Twitter @yowcivictech (https://twitter.com/yowcivictech) .\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Virtual socializing\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:30pm -- Presentations and demos\n7:30-8:00pm -- Wrap-up discussions\n==============\nKimberly Girling\nInterim Executive Director, Evidence for Democracy\n@kimberlygirling\nKimberly Girling completed a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of British Columbia. During her work as a scientist, she developed a passion for science policy, and has participated in a number of initiatives relating to global and public health, drug policy and harm reduction. In 2016, Kimberly was a member of the inaugural cohort of the Mitacs Canadian Science Policy Fellowship, a program linking scientists with government policy. During her time in government, she worked as a Science Policy Analyst with Defence Research and Development Canada, and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada on a wide range of topics including ethics of emerging disruptive technologies and fundamental research funding. For several years, Kimberly also served as the President of the Student Biotechnology Network, a BC-wide organization that helps students develop career paths in life science and biotechnology. Kimberly was Research and Policy Director for E4D before taking on the role of interim Executive Director.","attendee_count":21,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/269740173/","slug":"2020-04-07-269740173"},{"id":"269219126","title":"Hacknight Session #129 (VIRTUAL SESSION) ft. Pia Andrews and project demos","date":"2020-03-17T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Ottawa","address":"","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Pia Andrews","speaker_org":"project demos","hosts":["Brett Tackaberry","Lucas Cherkewski"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/5/f/c/highres_478441532.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2020-03-17-269219126.jpeg","description_markdown":"**UPDATE 2020-03-16**: Per Ottawa Public Health’s request to practice social distancing, we'll hold this meetup virtually. Please join us Tuesday after 6pm on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/546051841 The meetup itself will start at/around 6:30pm.\n\n---\nYou're invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's first full meetup of 2020! It was great to get together socially in January—let's reconnect in a more traditional setting over some talks and demos.\nOttawa Civic Tech \"hacknights\" are held Tuesday evenings once or twice a month from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\n==============\nPresenting or demoing:\n\n- Pia Andrews (see bio below)\n\n- Mark Richardson (demoing the HousingNowTO.com project)\n\n- Lucas Cherkewski (demoing some recent projects opening access to government information)\n\n- You?*\n*We're looking for community members with projects to demo—if you're interested, please contact us on Twitter @yowcivictech (https://twitter.com/yowcivictech) .\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Virtual socializing\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:30pm -- Presentations and demos\n7:30-8:00pm -- Wrap-up discussions\n==============\nPia Andrews is an open government and data ninja who has been working in making the world a better place for 20 years. She currently works within the (public sector) machine to transform public services through greater transparency, democratic engagement, citizen-centric design, open data, emerging technologies and real, pragmatic actual innovation in the public sector and beyond. She believes that tech culture has a huge role to play in achieving better policy planning, outcomes, public engagement and a better public service all round. She is also trying to do her part in establishing greater public benefit from publicly funded data, software and research. Pia was recognised in 2018 and 2019 as one of the global top 20 most Influential in Digital Government and was awarded as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Women in Australia for 2014.\nPia is currently the Digital Lead and Special Advisor for the Benefits Delivery Modernization program at Service Canada (ESDC) in Ottawa, Canada. There she is helping design and deliver a holistic and modern digital channel for the Canadian Government to deliver a delightful, dignified, user-centric, responsive and integrated digital journey that motivates and empowers people to help themselves.\nFull bio: http://pipka.org/standard-bio/\n---\nMark Richardson, HousingNowTO.com: The City of Toronto has set an ambitious target for “creating 40,000 new units of Affordable-Housing by 2031” – but the City never met any of the previous “Affordable-Housing” targets it has set in the 20+ year since amalgamation. How can citizens, technologists and housing-advocates use public-data, civic-tech tools and innovation to change the usual neighbourhood-conversations about new housing developments near existing transit? Since it was launched in January 2019, the HousingNowTO.com public-mapping and social-media project has tried to answer those questions for the 38,000+ visitors to our free, public information site.\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":35,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/269219126/","slug":"2020-03-17-269219126"},{"id":"267895147","title":"Social Night Session #127: Civic Tech meets CapCHI: A Mixer!","date":"2020-01-21T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Mulligans Golf Bar","address":"201 Queen St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Lucas Cherkewski","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Lucas Cherkewski","Vanessa Thomas"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2020-01-21-267895147.jpeg","description_markdown":"Welcome back! Let's start off the decade on a positive note by getting to know another amazing local community group: CapCHI! Founded in 1991, CapCHI has spent nearly three decades organizing events that bring together local professionals interested in how humans and computers interact. Many members of the CapCHI community work as UX/UI designers, researchers, educators, software developers, web designers, graphic designers and human factors engineers in and around Ottawa.\nThis social mixer will be an informal way for the communities to meet and get to know each other. We'll start the evening with a short introductory presentation from each group, and then leave the night open for mostly unstructured conversation. CapCHI organizers have a few back-up activities and games on hand to keep conversations moving, if necessary. They also have a Meetup event for this mixer: https://www.meetup.com/CapCHI/events/267883048/\n---\nAgenda\n6:00 Welcome\n6:30 Intro to CapCHI - Jed Looker\n6:45 Intro to CivicTech - Lucas Cherkewski\n7:00 Mingle\n8:30 Close\n---\nStay tuned for word from Ottawa Civic Tech organizers on opportunities to take on leadership roles with the group!","attendee_count":20,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/267895147/","slug":"2020-01-21-267895147"},{"id":"266902837","title":"Hacknight Session #127 ft. Community Project Demos","date":"2019-12-17T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Rebel","address":"377 Dalhousie St, Suite 201","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry","Lucas Cherkewski","Douglas Vidal-Hernandez"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-12-17-266902837.jpeg","description_markdown":"To round out the year, Ottawa Civic Tech is hosting an evening of demos from community members. Sessions may include Random Hacks of Kindness project updates, mini talks or project updates from Ottawa Civic Tech-ers, or other demos of other projects in the civic good space.\nOttawa Civic Tech \"hacknights\" are held Tuesday evenings once or twice a month from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\n==============\nSpecial guest: Various!\nThis informal session will include brief demos and presentations from different community members. The agenda is still in the works. Follow along here and on Slack for updates! \n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:30pm -- Presentations\n7:30-8:00pm -- Wrap-up discussions\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":24,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/266902837/","slug":"2019-12-17-266902837"},{"id":"266318322","title":"Hacknight Session #126 ft. Paul Thomas from the Samara Centre for Democracy","date":"2019-11-19T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":90,"venue":{"name":"Rebel","address":"377 Dalhousie St, Suite 201","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Paul Thomas","speaker_org":"Samara Centre for Democracy","hosts":["Brett Tackaberry","Douglas Vidal-Hernandez"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/5/f/c/highres_478441532.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-11-19-266318322.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's \"hacknights\", held every second Tuesday evening from 6:00-7:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\n==============\nPaul Thomas is a Senior Research Associate at the Samara Centre for Democracy, an organization dedicated to strengthening Canadian Democracy through research and public engagement. He is also an Adjunct Research Professor with Carleton University’s Department of Political Science and the Clayton H. Riddell Graduate Programme in Political Management.\nPaul has spent more than a decade working in and researching British and Canadian politics. After completing the Parliamentary Internship Programme and serving as a researcher for Senator Yoine Goldstein, Paul relocated to London to work in government relations for Cancer Research UK. He then completed a PhD in Political Science at the University of Toronto and a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Carleton University.\nPaul has published several articles and book chapters on legislative politics in Canada and the UK, and co-authored the book Religion and Canadian Party Politics. He serves on the board of the Canadian Study of Parliament Group.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:25pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:25-6:35pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:35-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-7:30pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":18,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/266318322/","slug":"2019-11-19-266318322"},{"id":"265533956","title":"Hacknight Session #125 ft. City Of Ottawa previewing the new geoOttawa","date":"2019-10-15T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Ottawa City Hall","address":"110 Laurier Ave W","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Matthew Darwin","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Matthew Darwin","Sean Boots"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-10-15-265533956.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held Tuesday evenings from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\n==============\nSpecial guest: City of Ottawa Open Data and GIS teams\nThis informal session will have 3 components:\n1) Back on April 2, city staff presented their \"Digital Services Strategy Update\". We will get an update from city staff on what they heard since then for the production rollout of https://open.ottawa.ca\n2) Geospatial data makes up a large part of what is available as open data from the city. The city manages GIS information in a platform called geoOttawa, which also available to the public at http://maps.ottawa.ca/geoottawa/. The city's GIS team will share the plan for the upgrade for geoOttawa.\n3) After the presentations you will be able to try out the new GeoOttawa and provide feedback directly to city staff.\nWe're really looking forward to having Tim, Matt and others from the city at this CivicTech meeting to share their experiences.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:30pm -- Presentations\n7:30-8:00pm -- Hands-on testing and general discussion\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":27,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/265533956/","slug":"2019-10-15-265533956"},{"id":"265192678","title":"Hacknight Session #124 ft. Lorin Hochstein: Reliability & Resilience","date":"2019-10-01T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Ottawa City Hall","address":"110 Laurier Ave W","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Lorin Hochstein","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots","Matthew Darwin"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-10-01-265192678.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held Tuesday evenings from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\n==============\nSpecial guest: Lorin Hochstein\nLorin Hochstein is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix on the Cloud Operations & Reliability Engineering team.\nFrom Lorin's bio: \"Once upon a time, I studied software developers to understand what problems they face and to evaluate whether proposed technologies actually make their lives easier. Nowadays, I study operational surprises (some people call these incidents) in order to improve how Netflix engineers software.\"\nYou can learn more about Lorin's work at http://lorinhochstein.org/ or on Twitter https://twitter.com/lhochstein\nWe're really looking forward to having Lorin at Ottawa Civic Tech, to learn from his work and to hear how we can help improve the resiliency of governments (at all levels) as well as civic IT systems and projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:30pm -- Q&A discussion with Lorin\n7:30-8:00pm -- Pitch Updates\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":32,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/265192678/","slug":"2019-10-01-265192678"},{"id":"264833529","title":"Hacknight Session #123","date":"2019-09-17T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Canadian Digital Service - Service Numérique Canadien","address":"219 Laurier Ave W","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Lucas Cherkewski","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Lucas Cherkewski","Sean Boots","Douglas Vidal-Hernandez"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-09-17-264833529.jpeg","description_markdown":"We're easing back into a different rhythm with Ottawa Civic Tech, following our informal summer series. You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held Tuesday evenings from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":9,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/264833529/","slug":"2019-09-17-264833529"},{"id":"263793569","title":"Hacknight Session #122 (Organizing for the future of Ottawa Civic Tech)","date":"2019-08-13T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"123 Slater St. 6th floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry","Douglas Vidal-Hernandez"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/b/0/7/highres_483807399.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-08-13-263793569.jpeg","description_markdown":"As summer comes to a close, Ottawa Civic Tech would like to organize our plan for Fall 2019/Winter 2020.\nWe invite anyone who wants to join and take on a leadership role in Ottawa Civic Tech to participate, volunteer and commit a bit of their time to help us where our next events will be hosted. We'd like to crowdsource suggestions for interesting civic leaders that would make great speakers at our events as well the next unique civic project suggestions that we should focus on.\nWe welcome all event organizers, developers, analysts, civicl servants, social media and comms professionals, community advocates and civic tech enthusiasts!\nIf you can't physically be there, no worries! Feel free to contribute to the draft schedule/calendar sometime this week or whenever you can anytime before our Meetup:\nhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/16dr0cvLA3VRvBNlFmiMknCvRJfnFD7Ku6O68AIZWLvA/edit?usp=sharing\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at: https://ottawacivictech.ca/==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":14,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/263793569/","slug":"2019-08-13-263793569"},{"id":"263557305","title":"Hacknight Session #121 (Informal summer edition!)","date":"2019-08-06T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Grounded Kitchen, Coffee & Bar","address":"100 Gloucester St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Lucas Cherkewski","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Lucas Cherkewski","Sean Boots"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/8/3/f/0/highres_481773776.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-08-06-263557305.jpeg","description_markdown":"During the summer, Ottawa Civic Tech hosts informal working sessions for those who wish to continue working on their civic tech projects, looking to join up with those working on projects, and/or looking to connect to the community. Everyone is welcome!\nWe'll do these summer sessions at coffee shops, restaurants, and patios to allow for social space as well as food and beverages. Please try to RSVP if you can so that we can manage numbers and potential venue reservations/estimates for seating. You’re still very welcome if you didn't have a chance to RSVP. Hope to see you there!\nReservation will be for Sean.\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at: https://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":14,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/263557305/","slug":"2019-08-06-263557305"},{"id":"263208620","title":"Hacknight Session #120 (Informal summer edition!)","date":"2019-07-23T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Grounded Kitchen, Coffee & Bar","address":"100 Gloucester St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Sean Boots","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots","Lucas Cherkewski"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/8/3/f/0/highres_481773776.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-07-23-263208620.jpeg","description_markdown":"During the summer, Ottawa Civic Tech hosts informal working sessions for those who wish to continue working on their civic tech projects, looking to join up with those working on projects, and/or looking to connect to the community. Everyone is welcome!\nWe'll do these summer sessions at coffee shops, restaurants, and patios to allow for social space as well as food and beverages. Please try to RSVP if you can so that we can manage numbers and potential venue reservations/estimates for seating. You’re still very welcome if you didn't have a chance to RSVP. Hope to see you there!\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at: https://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":11,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/263208620/","slug":"2019-07-23-263208620"},{"id":"262063483","title":"Hacknight Session #119 (Informal summer edition!)","date":"2019-06-11T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Grounded Kitchen, Coffee & Bar","address":"100 Gloucester St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Sean Boots","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots","Lucas Cherkewski"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/8/3/f/0/highres_481773776.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-06-11-262063483.jpeg","description_markdown":"During the summer, Ottawa Civic Tech hosts informal working sessions for those who wish to continue working on their civic tech projects, looking to join up with those working on projects, and/or looking to connect to the community. Everyone is welcome!\nWe'll do these summer sessions at coffee shops, restaurants, and patios to allow for social space as well as food and beverages. Please try to RSVP if you can so that we can manage numbers and potential venue reservations/estimates for seating. You’re still very welcome if you didn't have a chance to RSVP. Hope to see you there!\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at: https://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":6,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/262063483/","slug":"2019-06-11-262063483"},{"id":"261877641","title":"Hacknight Session #118 (Informal summer edition!)","date":"2019-06-04T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Grounded Kitchen, Coffee & Bar","address":"100 Gloucester St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Lucas Cherkewski","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Lucas Cherkewski","Sean Boots"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/8/3/f/0/highres_481773776.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-06-04-261877641.jpeg","description_markdown":"During the summer, Ottawa Civic Tech hosts informal working sessions for those who wish to continue working on their civic tech projects, looking to join up with those working on projects, and/or looking to connect to the community. Everyone is welcome!\nWe'll do these summer sessions at coffee shops, restaurants, and patios to allow for social space as well as food and beverages. Please try to RSVP if you can so that we can manage numbers and potential venue reservations/estimates for seating. You’re still very welcome if you didn't have a chance to RSVP. Hope to see you there!\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at: https://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":5,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/261877641/","slug":"2019-06-04-261877641"},{"id":"261433225","title":"Hacknight Session #117: Code for Canada Present - The Global Civic Tech Salon","date":"2019-05-28T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"123 Slater St, 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Douglas Vidal-Hernandez","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Douglas Vidal-Hernandez"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/f/f/8/highres_476668664.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-05-28-261433225.jpeg","description_markdown":"Please RSVP through Eventbrite for this special event!\nhttps://www.eventbrite.ca/e/code-for-canada-presents-the-global-civic-tech-salon-tickets-61302603738\nYou are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Please join us for a special event with Code for Canada's Global Civic Tech Salon is your chance to meet some of those building civic tech around the world.\nYou'll see examples of civic tech in action, and participate in a dialogue about what we -- as Canadian residents, governments and civic tech practitioners -- can learn from our colleagues in other jurisdictions.\nWe will have a number of speakers this evening -\n==============\nAdriana Groh: Manager of the Open Knowledge Foundation's Prototype Fund and the co-founder of wepublic, a platform for digital dialogue between politicians and citizens.\nDaniel Carranza: Co-founder of DATA Uruguay, a civil society organization that creates tools to foster more open government and the use of open data, both locally and regionally.\nTarik Nesh-Nash: Founder of the Moroccan-based ICT4Dev research center, and the CEO of GovRight, a social enterprise that contributes to civic education, civic participation and access to justice around the world.\nJúlia de Carvalho: Representative of Open Government Agents in the Shared Management Forum of Sao Paulo and CEO of Fast Food da Política, an organization that uses games and play to promote civic education and political engagement in Brazil.\nCaley Brock and Siobhan Özege: Code for Canada fellows working with the Public Service Commission of Canada to deliver a more modern, inclusive, and accessible experience for Canadians applying for jobs in the federal public service.\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at: http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":17,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/261433225/","slug":"2019-05-28-261433225"},{"id":"261015848","title":"Hacknight Session #116","date":"2019-05-21T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"123 Slater St, 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Douglas Vidal-Hernandez","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Douglas Vidal-Hernandez"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/f/f/8/highres_476668664.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-05-21-261015848.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at: http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":12,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/261015848/","slug":"2019-05-21-261015848"},{"id":"261015820","title":"Hacknight Session #115 ft Matt Jukes: Working in Public (Service)","date":"2019-05-14T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"123 Slater St, 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Matt Jukes","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Douglas Vidal-Hernandez"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/f/f/8/highres_476668664.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-05-14-261015820.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:30pm -- Presentation\n7:30-8:00pm -- Pitch Updates\n==============\nOur speaker this evening will be Matt Jukes, who has had a long career as a public servant including running a major digital transformation programme at the UK's Office for National Statistics, leading product management at civic tech organization mySociety and is now at Notbinary helping institutions apply the culture, practices, processes & technologies of the Internet-era to respond to their users raised expectations.\nHe will outline the importance of working in the open at an individual, team and organizational level in the public service (and beyond) to build trust with users and colleagues while increasing the understanding and acceptance of modern ways of working.\nIllustrated by examples from the Office for National Statistics, GDS, UK Parliament, 18F in the US, DTA in Australia, Friends of the Earth, Mozilla, Gitlab, Netflix and more.\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at: http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":28,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/261015820/","slug":"2019-05-14-261015820"},{"id":"261015729","title":"Hacknight Session #114","date":"2019-05-07T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"123 Slater St, 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Douglas Vidal-Hernandez","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Douglas Vidal-Hernandez"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/f/f/8/highres_476668664.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-05-07-261015729.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at: http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":7,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/261015729/","slug":"2019-05-07-261015729"},{"id":"260143647","title":"Hacknight Session #113","date":"2019-04-23T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Ottawa City Hall","address":"110 Laurier Ave W","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Matthew Darwin","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Matthew Darwin"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/3/e/b/f/highres_479896063.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-04-23-260143647.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":2,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/260143647/","slug":"2019-04-23-260143647"},{"id":"260143607","title":"Hacknight Session #112: Linkable Open Data Environment","date":"2019-04-16T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Ottawa City Hall","address":"110 Laurier Ave W","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Matthew Darwin","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Matthew Darwin"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/3/e/b/f/highres_479896063.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-04-16-260143607.jpeg","description_markdown":"Alessandro Alasia from Statistics Canada's Data Exploration and Integration Lab (DEIL) will present on progress towards building a Linkable Open Data Environment.\nOver the last few years, the DEIL has conducted an increasing amount of work with open data using various open source tools in an open ecosystem. This exploration and experience has given rise to the idea of using an “open project” approach. In this session, Alessandro will present examples and outcomes of “open projects” at DEIL, that is, projects that, to the extent possible, make use of open software, open code, open standards, open data, and open project management tools. It also outlines how DEIL is now exploring integration of open databases through the development of a Linkable Open Data Environment (LODE).\nTo date, achievements include the completion of openly licensed databases of virtually all building footprints across Canada, in collaboration with Microsoft, and preliminary versions of open databases of business, educational facilities, hospitals and addresses. Further, these open databases are providing insights on the potential of data value multiplication through stakeholder use and enrichment of the original baseline datasets.\n==============\nYou are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":30,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/260143607/","slug":"2019-04-16-260143607"},{"id":"260143590","title":"Hacknight Session #111","date":"2019-04-09T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Ottawa City Hall","address":"110 Laurier Ave W","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Matthew Darwin","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Matthew Darwin"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/3/e/b/f/highres_479896063.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-04-09-260143590.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":8,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/260143590/","slug":"2019-04-09-260143590"},{"id":"259734814","title":"Hacknight Session #110: Digital Services Strategy Update from the City of Ottawa","date":"2019-04-02T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Ottawa City Hall","address":"110 Laurier Ave W","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Matthew Darwin","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Matthew Darwin"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/1/7/c/highres_479445436.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-04-02-259734814.jpeg","description_markdown":"Ottawa Civic Tech invites you to special presentation from the City of Ottawa to provide an update on three (3) key initiatives related to the Smart City 2.0 - Digital Services Strategy.\nIn April, the City will launch the public beta version of a new open data portal (Open Ottawa), release a public beta version of a new City of Ottawa Mobile App, and release an update to the Open311 application program interface (API). These are foundational digital platforms that reinforce the City’s commitment to enhancing the “client experience” through digital service delivery.\nDuring the presentation you will hear more about these digital platforms and how you can provide their input and help shape future enhancements.\n==============\nYou are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:30pm -- Presentation from the City of Ottawa and Q&A\n7:30-8:00pm -- Breakout Group work sessions, Networking and opportunity to play with the beta open data website (Open Ottawa)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":62,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/259734814/","slug":"2019-04-02-259734814"},{"id":"259299910","title":"Hacknight Session #109","date":"2019-03-26T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Institute On Governance","address":"60 George St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Ryan Androsoff","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Ryan Androsoff"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/7/c/b/highres_479027051.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-03-26-259299910.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":7,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/259299910/","slug":"2019-03-26-259299910"},{"id":"259299606","title":"Hacknight Session #108","date":"2019-03-12T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Institute On Governance","address":"60 George St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Ryan Androsoff","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Ryan Androsoff"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/7/c/b/highres_479027051.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-03-12-259299606.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":8,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/259299606/","slug":"2019-03-12-259299606"},{"id":"259296867","title":"Hacknight Session #107 ft. Ryan Androsoff","date":"2019-03-05T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Institute On Governance","address":"60 George St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Ryan Androsoff","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Ryan Androsoff"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/7/3/0/highres_479026896.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-03-05-259296867.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30pm - 6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45pm - 7:30pm -- Speakers Presentation\n7:30pm - 8:00pm -- Project updates, Pitches and Breakout Group Work Sessions\n==============\nDigital has become more than just an \"IT thing\" and today is impacting everyone who works in government. Ryan Androsoff, Director of Digital Leadership at the Institute on Governance, will talk to us about the work he is leading to increase digital literacy amongst public service executives.\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":12,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/259296867/","slug":"2019-03-05-259296867"},{"id":"258716223","title":"Hacknight Session #106","date":"2019-02-26T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Rebel","address":"377 Dalhousie St, Suite 201","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/5/f/c/highres_478441532.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-02-26-258716223.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":8,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/258716223/","slug":"2019-02-26-258716223"},{"id":"258716185","title":"Speculative Civic Tech Futures: Hacknight Session #105 ","date":"2019-02-19T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Rebel","address":"377 Dalhousie St, Suite 201","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry","Luisa Ji"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/0/4/2/highres_478605122.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-02-19-258716185.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nIs individual privacy the same as state privacy?\nIs having nothing to hide the same as having nothing to show?\nWhat happens when IoT is no longer of things, but human beings?\nWhat are we talking about when we talk about personal data?\nIn our second collaboration together to explore ethics and futures of design and tech, Speculative Futures Ottawa and Ottawa Civic Tech invite you to share your dreams, hopes, and fears regarding the connected world. Use #FuturePrivacy and #YOW_SF to tag us your thoughts on Twitter!\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":20,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/258716185/","slug":"2019-02-19-258716185"},{"id":"258360161","title":"Hacknight Session #103 ft. Code for Canada ","date":"2019-02-05T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Rebel.com","address":"532 Montréal Rd Suite 261","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/1/d/a/e/highres_478087598.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-02-05-258360161.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30pm - 6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n7:00pm - 7:30pm -- Presentation from Code for Canada\n7:30pm - 7:45pm -- Project updates + Pitches\n7:45pm - 8:30pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\nSpeakers: Code for Canada Fellows - Daniel Tse, Siobhan Ozege, Caley Brock and Fatima Khalid\nCode for Canada is a national nonprofit that's connecting government innovators with members of the civic tech and design community, so they can build better digital public services together.\n(http://codefor.ca/)\nFellows from Code for Canada will present the latest news from the organization – including an exciting opportunity for Ottawa technologists to participate in the Code for Canada Fellowship Program – and share ways to get involved.\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":24,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/258360161/","slug":"2019-02-05-258360161"},{"id":"258111770","title":"Hacknight Session #102","date":"2019-01-29T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Grounded Kitchen, Coffee & Bar","address":"100 Gloucester St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Douglas Vidal-Hernandez","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Douglas Vidal-Hernandez"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/4/d/5/4/highres_477859796.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-01-29-258111770.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":5,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/258111770/","slug":"2019-01-29-258111770"},{"id":"258111753","title":"Hacknight Session #101","date":"2019-01-22T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Grounded Kitchen, Coffee & Bar","address":"100 Gloucester St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Douglas Vidal-Hernandez","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Douglas Vidal-Hernandez"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/4/d/5/4/highres_477859796.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-01-22-258111753.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":8,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/258111753/","slug":"2019-01-22-258111753"},{"id":"257991220","title":"Hacknight Session #100","date":"2019-01-15T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Grounded Kitchen, Coffee & Bar","address":"100 Gloucester St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Douglas Vidal-Hernandez","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Douglas Vidal-Hernandez"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/4/d/5/4/highres_477859796.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2019-01-15-257991220.jpeg","description_markdown":"*CHANGE OF LOCATION:*\nSincere apologies but we will be changing the location of tonight's meeting to Grounded Kitchen downtown! Thanks for your understanding!\n*****\nThis will be our first session of 2019!\n==============\nYou are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":16,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/257991220/","slug":"2019-01-15-257991220"},{"id":"257167722","title":"Hacknight Session #99","date":"2018-12-18T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"123 Slater St, 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Douglas Vidal-Hernandez","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Douglas Vidal-Hernandez"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/f/f/8/highres_476668664.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-12-18-257167722.jpeg","description_markdown":"This will be our last session of the year and hope to have some treats and holiday cheer before we wrap up for 2018!\n==============\nYou are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":6,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/257167722/","slug":"2018-12-18-257167722"},{"id":"256949881","title":"Speculative Civic Tech Futures: Hacknight Session #98 ","date":"2018-12-11T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"123 Slater St, 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Douglas Vidal-Hernandez","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Douglas Vidal-Hernandez","Luisa Ji"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/5/5/f/highres_476866431.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-12-11-256949881.jpeg","description_markdown":"Ottawa Civic Tech and Speculative Futures Ottawa invite you to a special event for our 98th hacknight session. As technology becomes increasingly accessible and open for citizens to contribute to within their civic environment, how can we build our future cities together? What is the role of creativity and imagination in the context of civic tech and policy design? What are the narratives we are creating for our shared futures as we develop technologies that are for the public good? How will the environment we live in shape new technologies and vice versa?\nJoin our 3 panellists on December 11th at Impact Hub Ottawa.\n------\nRemco Volmer, Artengine\nRemco is the managing director of Artengine, Ottawa's lab for creative technology. A graduate of Utrecht University of Art’s Creative Media program, he has focused his practice on technologically mediated interaction design. As a cultural producer, he has organized a variety of exhibitions and festivals, including the Electric Fields festival of electronic art and Maker Faire Ottawa. He has a strong interest in innovation in the arts, both on the individual level of the artist and on the combined level of the institution.\n------\nNatale Dankotuwage, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada\nBorn and raised in the Greater Toronto Area, Natale Dankotuwage is an Undergraduate from University of Toronto in Political Science and a Master’s Graduate from Ontario College of Art and Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation.\nAs a Social Innovator, she has worked on post-war development with the Asia Foundation. And has worked as a community manager of co-working spaces for digital tech entrepreneurs in Bangalore India and Toronto, Canada. These days she is a Federal Public Servant working for the Government of Canada on digital innovation. Her passion for social innovation persists. She was a Global Ambassador at the 2018 Unleashed Global Innovation Summit in Singapore.\nChange-making has been a passion of hers for years. Believing we all have the potential to make a positive difference in our communities, nation and world.\n------\nTom Baynes, Policy Horizons Canada\nTom is an intellectual adventurer with a background in anthropology, art history, and public administration, connecting intangible aspects of human experience to concrete social policy issues. He strives to show the value of qualitative research methods in making informed choices about the future, and translate humanistic perspectives into usable insights. At home, his neuroticism and intellectual perversity are seen in his passion for textile crafts, bad television, great movies, and books on aesthetics, social theory, and cultural history.\n------\nDo you have questions around foresight policy, civic tech, technology? Go to https://www.sli.do and enter event code #E450\nJoin us and be part of this important conversation and relationship between government and citizens. You do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend --everyone is welcome, and everyone can contribute questions, ideas, and insights on how we might work with government changemakers to build civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement.\n6:00pm - 6:30pm: Networking\n6:30pm - 6:45pm: Welcome to Ottawa Civic Tech and Speculative Futures Ottawa\n6:45pm - 7:00pm: Panel Introductions\n7:00pm - 8:00pm: Panel Discussion\n8:00 - 8:15pm: Audience Q&A\n8:15 - 8:30pm: Community Updates / Projects\n==================\n\nFind out more about Speculative Futures Ottawa at https://medium.com/yow-sf\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":15,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/256949881/","slug":"2018-12-11-256949881"},{"id":"256751932","title":"Hacknight Session #97","date":"2018-12-04T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"123 Slater St, 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Douglas Vidal-Hernandez","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Douglas Vidal-Hernandez"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/f/f/8/highres_476668664.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-12-04-256751932.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":4,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/256751932/","slug":"2018-12-04-256751932"},{"id":"256614040","title":"Hacknight Session #96","date":"2018-11-27T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Rebel","address":"377 Dalhousie St, Suite 201","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/4/9/9/b/highres_475698843.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-11-27-256614040.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":7,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/256614040/","slug":"2018-11-27-256614040"},{"id":"256550664","title":"Hacknight Session #95","date":"2018-11-20T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Rebel","address":"377 Dalhousie St, Suite 201","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/4/9/9/b/highres_475698843.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-11-20-256550664.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":4,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/256550664/","slug":"2018-11-20-256550664"},{"id":"255739880","title":"Hacknight Session #94 - Featuring Mike Colledge from Ipsos Canada ","date":"2018-11-13T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Rebel","address":"377 Dalhousie St, Suite 201","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Mike Colledge","speaker_org":"Ipsos Canada","hosts":["Brett Tackaberry"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/4/9/a/9/highres_475698857.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-11-13-255739880.jpeg","description_markdown":"What do Theresa May, Donald Trump and Collin Kaepernick have in common? They are all the result of social forces and shifts that are re-shaping our politics, our news and our expectations of the private sector. Mike Colledge, President of Ipsos Public Affairs will present Canadian and Global insights from Ipsos research on Populism and Fake News.\nIts also YOW Civic Tech's 2nd Birthday! There will be food and (most likely) birthday cake.\n==============\nYou are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":24,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/255739880/","slug":"2018-11-13-255739880"},{"id":"255739867","title":"Hacknight Session #93","date":"2018-11-06T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Rebel","address":"377 Dalhousie St, Suite 201","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/4/9/9/b/highres_475698843.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-11-06-255739867.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nThere isn't a speaker scheduled this first tuesday - but there is one scheduled for next week.\nWe've invited some folks and from RHoK (Random Hacks of Kindness) to attend and both give an overview of their projects and evaluate YOWCT as a working venue.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":23,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/255739867/","slug":"2018-11-06-255739867"},{"id":"255756133","title":"Hacknight Session #92","date":"2018-10-30T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"SLiDE Lab","address":"1385 Woodroffe Ave, 1st Floor DARE District • C125","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Luisa Ji","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Luisa Ji"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/5/0/3/7/highres_475160535.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-10-30-255756133.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":3,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/255756133/","slug":"2018-10-30-255756133"},{"id":"255756120","title":"Hacknight Session #91","date":"2018-10-23T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"SLiDE Lab","address":"1385 Woodroffe Ave, 1st Floor DARE District • C125","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Luisa Ji","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Luisa Ji"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/5/0/3/7/highres_475160535.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-10-23-255756120.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":6,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/255756120/","slug":"2018-10-23-255756120"},{"id":"255551205","title":"Hacknight Session #90","date":"2018-10-16T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"SLiDE Lab","address":"1385 Woodroffe Ave, 1st Floor DARE District • C125","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Luisa Ji","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Luisa Ji"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/5/0/3/7/highres_475160535.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-10-16-255551205.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":7,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/255551205/","slug":"2018-10-16-255551205"},{"id":"255286390","title":"Hacknight Session #89","date":"2018-10-09T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"SLiDE Lab","address":"1385 Woodroffe Ave, 1st Floor DARE District • C125","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Luisa Ji","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Luisa Ji"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/5/0/3/7/highres_475160535.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-10-09-255286390.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":7,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/255286390/","slug":"2018-10-09-255286390"},{"id":"255034044","title":"Hacknight Session #88 + Meet the People of SLiDE Innovation Lab","date":"2018-10-02T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"SLiDE Lab","address":"1385 Woodroffe Ave, 1st Floor DARE District • C125","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Luisa Ji","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Luisa Ji"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/7/1/7/b/highres_474929051.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-10-02-255034044.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome; Guest speaker presentations and Q&A\n7:00-7:20pm -- Introductions\n7:20-7:30pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:30-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/\n==============\nAbout the Venue and our Host of October:\nLocated in the DARE District at Algonquin College is the new Social Innovation Lab. The Lab is a key element of Algonquin College’s response to a 2017 report published by the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation’s RECODE initiative and Simon Fraser University entitled: Maximizing the capacities of advanced education institutions to build social infrastructure for Canadian communities.\nThe foundation of the work of Social Innovation Lab revolves around the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. The lab provides opportunities to the Algonquin College community including students, staff and faculty to broadly engage in social innovation practices toward the global goals.\nhttps://www.slidelab7.ca/","attendee_count":18,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/255034044/","slug":"2018-10-02-255034044"},{"id":"254191536","title":"Hacknight Session #87","date":"2018-09-25T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Coworkly","address":"261 Montreal Road, 3rd floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Douglas Vidal-Hernandez","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Douglas Vidal-Hernandez"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/7/4/3/highres_474130051.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-09-25-254191536.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:00pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":7,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/254191536/","slug":"2018-09-25-254191536"},{"id":"254191510","title":"Hacknight Session #86","date":"2018-09-18T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Coworkly","address":"261 Montreal Road, 3rd floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Douglas Vidal-Hernandez","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Douglas Vidal-Hernandez"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/7/4/3/highres_474130051.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-09-18-254191510.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-6:45pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:45-7:00pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:00-8:00pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":6,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/254191510/","slug":"2018-09-18-254191510"},{"id":"254172471","title":"Hacknight Session #85 featuring Julianna Rowsell from Shared Services Canada","date":"2018-09-11T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Coworkly","address":"261 Montreal Road, 3rd floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Julianna Rowsell","speaker_org":"Shared Services Canada","hosts":["Douglas Vidal-Hernandez"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/7/4/3/highres_474130051.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-09-11-254172471.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome; Guest speaker presentations and Q&A\n7:00-7:20pm -- Introductions\n7:20-7:30pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:30-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":26,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/254172471/","slug":"2018-09-11-254172471"},{"id":"253678566","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech Working Session","date":"2018-08-14T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Grounded Kitchen, Coffee & Bar","address":"100 Gloucester St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"James Chan","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/2/4/2/highres_473365154.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-08-14-253678566.jpeg","description_markdown":"During the summer, Ottawa Civic Tech will be hosting informal working sessions for those who wish to continue working on their civic tech projects, looking to join up with those working on projects, and/or looking to connect to the community. Everyone is welcome!\nWe'll be trying to do these summer sessions at coffee shops, restaurants, and patios to also allow for social space as well as food and beverages. Please try to RSVP if you can so that we can manage numbers and potential venue reservations/estimates for seating. You are still very welcome if you didn't have a chance to RSVP. Hope to see you there!","attendee_count":7,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/253678566/","slug":"2018-08-14-253678566"},{"id":"253316196","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech Working Session","date":"2018-07-31T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Grounded Kitchen, Coffee & Bar","address":"100 Gloucester St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Douglas Vidal-Hernandez","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Douglas Vidal-Hernandez"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/2/4/2/highres_473365154.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-07-31-253316196.jpeg","description_markdown":"During the summer, Ottawa Civic Tech will be hosting informal working sessions for those who wish to continue working on their civic tech projects, looking to join up with those working on projects, and/or looking to connect to the community. Everyone is welcome!\nWe'll be trying to do these summer sessions at coffee shops, restaurants, and patios to also allow for social space as well as food and beverages. Please try to RSVP if you can so that we can manage numbers and potential venue reservations/estimates for seating. You are still very welcome if you didn't have a chance to RSVP. Hope to see you there!","attendee_count":4,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/253316196/","slug":"2018-07-31-253316196"},{"id":"252883177","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech Working Session","date":"2018-07-24T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Grounded Kitchen, Coffee & Bar","address":"100 Gloucester St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Sean Boots","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-07-24-252883177.jpeg","description_markdown":"During the summer, Ottawa Civic Tech will be hosting informal working sessions for those who wish to continue working on their civic tech projects, looking to join up with those working on projects, and/or looking to connect to the community. Everyone is welcome!\nWe'll be trying to do these summer sessions at coffee shops, restaurants, and patios to also allow for social space as well as food and beverages. Please try to RSVP if you can so that we can manage numbers and potential venue reservations/estimates for seating. You are still very welcome if you didn't have a chance to RSVP. Hope to see you there!","attendee_count":5,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/252883177/","slug":"2018-07-24-252883177"},{"id":"252612267","title":"Hacknight Session #81 featuring Karen McCrimmon, MP for Kanata—Carleton","date":"2018-07-17T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Wellington Building","address":"197 Sparks St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Karen McCrimmon","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Douglas Vidal-Hernandez"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/4/d/highres_472800589.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-07-17-252612267.jpeg","description_markdown":"*Please note:* Everyone will need a piece of government issued ID and will have to go through a metal detector as this is a parliamentary building.\nFind out more about the recently-renovated Wellington Building:\nhttps://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/ottawa-s-wellington-building-officially-re-opens-after-425m-restoration-1.3185509\n==============\nYou are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAbout Our Guest Speaker\nKaren McCrimmon is a Canadian Forces veteran, mediator and politician who was elected Member of Parliament for Kanata—Carleton in the 2015 Canadian federal election.\nYou can find her on Twitter at,\nhttps://twitter.com/karenmccrimmon\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome; Guest speaker presentations and Q&A\n7:00-7:20pm -- Introductions\n7:20-7:30pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:30-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":30,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/252612267/","slug":"2018-07-17-252612267"},{"id":"252443570","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech Working Session","date":"2018-07-10T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Grounded Kitchen, Coffee & Bar","address":"100 Gloucester St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Sean Boots","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-07-10-252443570.jpeg","description_markdown":"During the summer, Ottawa Civic Tech will be hosting informal working sessions for those who wish to continue working on their civic tech projects, looking to join up with those working on projects, and/or looking to connect to the community. Everyone is welcome!\nWe'll be trying to do these summer sessions at coffee shops, restaurants, and patios to also allow for social space as well as food and beverages. Please try to RSVP if you can so that we can manage numbers and potential venue reservations/estimates for seating. You are still very welcome if you didn't have a chance to RSVP. Hope to see you there!","attendee_count":14,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/252443570/","slug":"2018-07-10-252443570"},{"id":"251680346","title":"Hacknight Session #79 - Pub Night at Tavern on the Hill","date":"2018-06-26T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Tavern on the Hill","address":"1223 Alexandra Bridge / 1 John Street (+ Sussex Drive)","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/4/1/d/d/highres_472216861.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-06-26-251680346.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-8:00pm -- Social\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":14,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/251680346/","slug":"2018-06-26-251680346"},{"id":"251680338","title":"Hacknight Session #78 - Digital Access Day Reception","date":"2018-06-19T17:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":90,"venue":{"name":"Shopify HQ","address":"150 Elgin St, Ottawa, ON","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-06-19-251680338.jpeg","description_markdown":"This week's meeting will be a special collision with our friends running Digital Access Day.\nDigital Access Day, a day-long conference to dive into these issues, including connectivity in Indigenous communities, digital literacy, research on the digital divide, and the challenges of making internet and connected devices affordable for everyone.\nFrom 5:30-7:30pm Digital Access Day attendees are continuing the conversation at Shopify's offices (150 Elgin St), across the street from City Hall.\nThis week's Ottawa Civic Tech will be at the Digital Access Day reception.\nFor more information on Digital Access Day and to register, see the Evenbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/digital-access-day-tickets-46149146339\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":31,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/251680338/","slug":"2018-06-19-251680338"},{"id":"251443599","title":"Hacknight Session #77","date":"2018-06-12T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Rebel.com","address":"12 York St, Ottawa, ON K1N 5S6","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-06-12-251443599.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n7:00-7:15pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:15-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":13,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/251443599/","slug":"2018-06-12-251443599"},{"id":"251213518","title":"Hacknight Session #76 with Shelley Robinson, ED of National Capital FreeNet","date":"2018-06-05T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Rebel.com","address":"12 York St, Ottawa, ON K1N 5S6","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Shelley Robinson","speaker_org":"National Capital FreeNet","hosts":["Brett Tackaberry"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/1/e/1/6/highres_471547702.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-06-05-251213518.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nAbout Our Guest Speaker\nShelley Robinson is Executive Director of National Capital FreeNet, a not-for-profit Internet Service Provider that was established in 1992. NCF is a social enterprise that believes everyone in the region should have access to the internet, meaning they can afford a high quality connection, understand how to use it, and feel safe online. What does that look like in practice?\nFreeNet is one of the founders of Digital Access Day, a free day-long conference on Tuesday June 19th at City Hall to discuss the ways the digital divide too often mirrors and exacerbates existing inequities. Shelley will also talk about the conference and ways people can contribute to that work. Register at: www.digitalaccessday.ca\nShelley's talk will be livestreamed - tune in at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5PqkX6u8xw\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome; Guest speaker presentations and Q&A\n7:00-7:20pm -- Introductions\n7:20-7:30pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:30-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":31,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/251213518/","slug":"2018-06-05-251213518"},{"id":"251044277","title":"Hacknight Session #75","date":"2018-05-29T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Rebel.com","address":"12 York St, Ottawa, ON K1N 5S6","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Brett Tackaberry","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Brett Tackaberry"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/1/e/1/6/highres_471547702.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-05-29-251044277.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nTypically, the first Tuesday of the month features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n7:00-7:15pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:15-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":14,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/251044277/","slug":"2018-05-29-251044277"},{"id":"250382942","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech presents: Delivering services to citizens in a digital world","date":"2018-05-22T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"INNOVATION CENTRE AT BAYVIEW YARDS","address":"7 BAYVIEW RD","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"James Chan","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-05-22-250382942.jpeg","description_markdown":"Ottawa Civic Tech invites you to a special first-of-its-kind event in Ottawa: a unique opportunity to engage with digital service teams from the municipal, provincial, and federal government!\nJoin us and be part of this important conversation and relationship between government and citizens. You do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend -- everyone is welcome, and everyone can contribute questions, ideas, and insights on how we might work with government changemakers to build civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement.\n\n* Doors open at 6pm. Event starts at 6:30pm sharp.\n\n* Bayview Yards is an accessible venue\n\n* This will be livestreamed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px6I1v7gM80\n\n* Questions for the panel? Go to slido.com and enter event code #1656\n6:00-6:30pm: Networking and food!\n6:30-6:45pm: Welcome\n6:45-7:00pm: Marc René de Cotret (Service Innovation Team, City of Ottawa)\n7:00-7:15pm: Ebony Sager (Ontario Digital Service)\n7:15-7:30pm: Aaron Snow (Canadian Digital Service)\n7:30-8:00pm: Panel discussion moderated by Olivia Neal (Executive Director, Digital Change, Treasury Board Secretariat)\n8:00-8:30pm: Audience Q&A\nThank you to the City of Ottawa for supporting this event, and to Ipsos Canada and Speedyrails for sponsoring Ottawa Civic Tech!\n==================\nMarc René de Cotret\nDirector of Service Transformation, Service Innovation and Performance, City of Ottawa\nMarc was an Associate Partner with the Digital Operations practice of IBM’s Global Business Services, with extensive consulting experience in strategy, business operations, and digital transformation. He has worked in sectors including all levels of government, public safety, health care, and telecommunications.\nHe leads the Service Transformation team, which is responsible for delivering improvements to the City’s strategic and organizational business planning processes, employee engagement and internal communications, process improvement programs and organizational effectiveness efforts to cultivate an organizational culture of innovation and client-centric service delivery.\n-----------\n** UPDATE ** Due to the provincial election that is now officially underway, Deputy Ministers are limited in their participation at events during the writ period. Hillary will still be in attendance and looks forward to engaging with the Civic Tech community, but unfortunately cannot participate as an official speaker. Her colleague Ebony Sager will speak on behalf of the Ontario Digital Service.\nEbony is the Business, Partnerships and Intake lead at ODS. She's working to cultivate opportunities and relationships, ensuring that product teams have what they need to deliver successful digital information and services based on our Ontario Digital Service Standards.\n---\nHillary Hartley\nChief Digital Officer and Deputy Minister for Digital Government, Government of Ontario\nHillary was Deputy Executive Director of 18F, the U.S. government's digital office, and a former Presidential Innovation Fellow. As Ontario's Chief Digital Officer, she will partner with government ministries in delivering major digital projects, accelerate transformation across government by setting new service standards for digital products, attracting and empowering digital talent, and aligning partners around delivering the best possible customer experience.\n-----------\nAaron Snow\nCEO of the Canadian Digital Service, Government of Canada\nAaron was a co-founder, Director of Delivery, and ultimately Executive Director of 18F. He served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow, focusing on technology procurement, and also held the roles of Deputy Commissioner and Senior Advisor at the U.S. Government’s Technology Transformation Service (TTS).\nAs CEO of the CDS, Aaron will play a pivotal role helping departments make better use of digital technology, agile methods, and user-centred design to better serve everyone who uses federal services.","attendee_count":141,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/250382942/","slug":"2018-05-22-250382942"},{"id":"250613757","title":"Hacknight Session #74","date":"2018-05-15T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"CompuCorps - community computer Lab","address":"1040 Somerset Street West (beside Dollarama)","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Alexandre Enkerli","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Alexandre Enkerli"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-05-15-250613757.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n7:00-7:15pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:15-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":9,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/250613757/","slug":"2018-05-15-250613757"},{"id":"250144423","title":"Hacknight Session #73 featuring Heather Shearer from Bike Ottawa","date":"2018-05-08T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"CompuCorps - community computer Lab","address":"1040 Somerset Street West (beside Dollarama)","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Heather Shearer","speaker_org":"Bike Ottawa","hosts":["Matthew Darwin"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/e/5/f/3/highres_470518867.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-05-08-250144423.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nOur guest speaker this week: Heather Shearer from Bike Ottawa on the topic of building a Level of Traffic Stress Map using Open Data, Mapillary, OpenStreetMap and a lot of community contributors.\nhttps://bikeottawa.ca/index.php/news/news/249-map\nHeather's Bio:\nMost of my life, I've been on the move, never spending more than a few years in one city. Now that I’m in Ottawa to stay, I'm committed to making it even better for cycling.\nI joined the board of BikeOttawa in 2015. As a board member, I've enjoyed playing a communications role and contributing to our advocacy efforts, including through the development of our organization’s policies. I’ve also played a relationship-building role, meeting with other like-minded advocates, political leaders at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels, as well as with NCC and City of Ottawa staff. More recently, I’ve been getting Bike Ottawa’s Data Group off the ground, which is an exciting new project that will help us build a strong evidence-based case for cycling infrastructure.\nI ride for fun and for transportation. It's very important to me that people of all ages and abilities should have the option to ride a bike, in every part of the city. That means building convenient, connected infrastructure that anyone would feel comfortable using, as well as broad public and political support to adequately fund our cycling plan.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome; Guest speaker presentations and Q&A\n7:00-7:20pm -- Introductions\n7:20-7:30pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:30-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":20,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/250144423/","slug":"2018-05-08-250144423"},{"id":"250144300","title":"Hacknight Session #72","date":"2018-05-01T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"CompuCorps - community computer Lab","address":"1040 Somerset Street West (beside Dollarama)","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Alexandre Enkerli","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Alexandre Enkerli"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-05-01-250144300.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n7:00-7:15pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:15-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":19,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/250144300/","slug":"2018-05-01-250144300"},{"id":"249421312","title":"Hacknight Session #70 featuring Alex Benay (CIO of the Government of Canada)","date":"2018-04-24T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"INNOVATION CENTRE AT BAYVIEW YARDS","address":"7 BAYVIEW RD","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Alex Benay","speaker_org":"CIO of the Government of Canada","hosts":["Alexandre Enkerli"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-04-24-249421312.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nOur guest speaker this week: Alex Benay\nAlex Benay was appointed the Chief Information Officer of the Government of Canada, effective April 3, 2017.\nPrior to this appointment, Alex was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation since July 2014.\nFrom 2011 to 2014, Alex was Vice-President of Government Affairs and Business Development at OpenText. He has played a leadership role in Canada’s digital industry, as well as in promoting the global shift to digital in organizations such as the G20, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Olympics. Before joining OpenText, Alex managed various teams and programs at the Canadian International Development Agency, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Natural Resources Canada, and Library and Archives Canada.\nAlex has a B.A. in History from the University of Ottawa and a master’s degree in History.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome; Guest speaker presentations and Q&A\n7:00-7:20pm -- Introductions\n7:20-7:30pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:30-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":57,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/249421312/","slug":"2018-04-24-249421312"},{"id":"249830981","title":"Hacknight Session #70","date":"2018-04-17T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"INNOVATION CENTRE AT BAYVIEW YARDS","address":"7 BAYVIEW RD","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Alexandre Enkerli","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Alexandre Enkerli"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-04-17-249830981.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n7:00-7:15pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:15-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":11,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/249830981/","slug":"2018-04-17-249830981"},{"id":"249421027","title":"Hacknight Session #69","date":"2018-04-10T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"INNOVATION CENTRE AT BAYVIEW YARDS","address":"7 BAYVIEW RD","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Alexandre Enkerli","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Alexandre Enkerli"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-04-10-249421027.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n7:00-7:15pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:15-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":14,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/249421027/","slug":"2018-04-10-249421027"},{"id":"249167223","title":"Hacknight Session #68 featuring Christine Earnshaw from Synapcity","date":"2018-04-03T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"INNOVATION CENTRE AT BAYVIEW YARDS","address":"7 BAYVIEW RD","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Christine Earnshaw","speaker_org":"Synapcity","hosts":["Rob Davidson"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-04-03-249167223.jpeg","description_markdown":"NOTE: This is a special 2-for-1 event! Preceding this week's Civic Tech hacknight, there is an Open Data Day event in the same room from 4:30pm-6:00pm. Details and RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ottawa-open-data-day-2018-tickets-44614221337\n==============\nYou are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\n==============\nOur guest speaker this week: Christine Earnshaw\nChristine has twenty years experience working in community and international development with a focus on public engagement. Driven by an interest to make Ottawa more liveable, equitable and sustainable, she seeks collaborations with others to catalyze ideas into action. In 2014, Christine co-founded Tree Fest Ottawa, an Ottawa-based nonprofit that celebrates trees and engages the public and policymakers on the importance of the urban forest. Since 2015, she has been on the Board of Directors of the Parkdale Food Centre, a progressive food centre in downtown Ottawa. This is her second year working with Synapcity as Project Lead for 100in1Day.\n100in1Day is a global festival featuring hundreds of citizen-led interventions in public spaces all on one day. In 2018, 100in1Day is taking place on June 2nd in over 40 cities around the world. Powered by Synapcity, this is Ottawa's second year taking part. During this presentation/workshop, we will look at examples of interventions featuring technology and design that were implemented last year in Ottawa and in other cities. Participants will then have an opportunity to generate ideas and plan ways to take part in 100in1Day as a means to engage citizens on the use of technology and design to address complex social and civic challenges.\n==============\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome; Guest speaker presentations and Q&A\n7:00-7:20pm -- Introductions\n7:20-7:30pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:30-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":20,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/249167223/","slug":"2018-04-03-249167223"},{"id":"248411183","title":"Hacknight Session #67 featuring William Carter from CSIS","date":"2018-03-27T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Impact Public Affairs","address":"222 Queen St, Suite 1404","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"William Carter","speaker_org":"CSIS","hosts":["Sean Boots","Jillian"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-03-27-248411183.jpeg","description_markdown":"No, not that CSIS! William is Deputy Director and Fellow of the Technology Policy Program at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies. His research focuses on international cyber and technology policy issues, including artificial intelligence, surveillance and privacy, data localization, cyber conflict and deterrence, financial sector cybersecurity, and law enforcement and technology. He'll be talking about their latest project: a National Machine Intelligence Strategy for the United States.\n---------------\nYou are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Guest speaker; Q&A 7:00-7:15pm -- Introductions, project updates + new pitches\n7:15-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":29,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/248411183/","slug":"2018-03-27-248411183"},{"id":"248411176","title":"Hacknight Session #66","date":"2018-03-20T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Impact Public Affairs","address":"222 Queen St, Suite 1404","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Sean Boots","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots","Jillian"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-03-20-248411176.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n7:00-7:15pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:15-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":21,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/248411176/","slug":"2018-03-20-248411176"},{"id":"248411167","title":"Hacknight Session #65 featuring Erin Kennedy (RobotGrrl)","date":"2018-03-13T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Impact Public Affairs","address":"222 Queen St, Suite 1404","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Erin Kennedy","speaker_org":"RobotGrrl","hosts":["Jillian"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-03-13-248411167.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first (or second) Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome; Guest speaker presentations and Q&A\n7:00-7:20pm -- Introductions\n7:20-7:30pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:30-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\nGuest speaker: Erin Kennedy\nErin “RobotGrrl” Kennedy is the CEO and technical founder of Robot Missions, where she has designed and developed a robot to collect shoreline debris, which can be replicated anywhere with a 3D printer. Kennedy studied digital fabrication at the Fab Academy, and worked with a global team at MIT on a forty-eight-hour challenge during Fab11 to build a fully functional submarine. A former fellow in social innovation at the MaRS Discovery District’s Studio Y, Erin has been recognized as a finalist in the Lieutenant Governor’s Visionary Prize (Ontario, Canada), an Intel Emerging Young Entrepreneur, and her previous robotics work has been featured in Forbes, Wired, and IEEE Spectrum and on the Discovery Channel.\nIn this presentation you will learn about the vision of Robot Missions, and the upcoming Municipal Trials. As a community initiative, we are looking for your help to make it happen!\nhttp://www.robotmissions.org/\nhttp://www.robotmissions.org/trials2018/\nVideo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW4ysImGbwU\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":33,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/248411167/","slug":"2018-03-13-248411167"},{"id":"248411068","title":"Hacknight Session #64","date":"2018-03-06T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Impact Public Affairs","address":"222 Queen St, Suite 1404","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":null,"speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Jillian"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-03-06-248411068.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n7:00-7:15pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:15-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":16,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/248411068/","slug":"2018-03-06-248411068"},{"id":"246274705","title":"Hacknight Session #63","date":"2018-02-27T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat","address":"90 Elgin St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Sean Boots","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-02-27-246274705.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n7:00-7:15pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:15-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":21,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/246274705/","slug":"2018-02-27-246274705"},{"id":"246274699","title":"Hacknight Session #62","date":"2018-02-20T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat","address":"90 Elgin St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Sean Boots","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-02-20-246274699.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n7:00-7:15pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:15-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":25,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/246274699/","slug":"2018-02-20-246274699"},{"id":"246274688","title":"Hacknight Session #62","date":"2018-02-13T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat","address":"90 Elgin St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Sean Boots","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-02-13-246274688.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n7:00-7:15pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:15-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":24,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/246274688/","slug":"2018-02-13-246274688"},{"id":"246274655","title":"Hacknight Session #61 featuring Jenna Feldman and Zeina Osman","date":"2018-02-06T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat","address":"90 Elgin St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Jenna Feldman","speaker_org":"Zeina Osman","hosts":["Sean Boots"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-02-06-246274655.jpeg","description_markdown":"** This hacknight is sponsored by the good folks at Speedyrails (https://www.speedyrails.com) who are generously providing refreshments for the evening! **\n==============\nYou are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome; Guest speaker presentations and Q&A\n7:00-7:20pm -- Introductions\n7:20-7:30pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:30-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\nGuest speakers: Jenna Feldman and Zeina Osman\nJenna Feldman, Community Relations Manager, Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA)\nJenna manages CIRA’s Community Investment Program. She has 20 years of experience in community investment and corporate responsibility and has worked for both non-profit and for profit organizations to maximize their social impact.\nCIRA is building a better online Canada through the Community Investment Program by funding innovative projects led by charities, not-for-profits and academic institutions that are making the internet better for all Canadians. CIRA is best known for its role managing the .CA domain on behalf of all Canadians. While this remains CIRA’s primary mandate, it has a much broader goal to strengthen Canada's internet. The Community Investment Program is one of CIRA’s most valuable contributions toward this goal and funds projects in infrastructure and access, digital literacy, online services, and research. Every .CA domain name registered or renewed contributes to this program. To date, CIRA has supported 102 projects with over $4.2 million in contributions.\nZeina Osman, co-executive director of CompuCorps Mentoring Inc.\nOriginally from Toronto, Ontario, Zeina Osman attended Carleton University for Bachelor of Arts: Communications in Ottawa, Ontario. She is the co-executive director of CompuCorps Mentoring Inc, a high-tech charity that seeks to benefit Canadian society by providing under-served groups -- career and life skills training focused on access to technology and the internet. Originally trained in public and media relations, she shifted industries in 2012 and went on to work on several large fundraising campaigns for Canadian charities. She has landed herself local and national news coverage for her work in the Not-For-Profit sector and her work in the bridging the digital divide gap in Canada. Zeina has multi-faceted experience with executive management of organizations with particular strength in developing and implementing innovative community programs. Passionate about many causes, she plans to continue her work in the charity sector and strive to make a difference.\n==============\n\nFind out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":40,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/246274655/","slug":"2018-02-06-246274655"},{"id":"246274519","title":"Hacknight Session #60","date":"2018-01-30T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Fox and Feather Pub","address":"283 Elgin Street","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"James Chan","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-01-30-246274519.jpeg","description_markdown":"**NOTE THE CHANGE IN LOCATION!!**\nYou are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n7:00-7:15pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:15-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\nIn addition to our weekly in-person hacknights, the YOWCT community uses Slack and Trello to communicate and collaborate on projects. Access our digital channels through our website: http://ottawacivictech.ca/","attendee_count":27,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/246274519/","slug":"2018-01-30-246274519"},{"id":"246274512","title":"Hacknight Session #59","date":"2018-01-23T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"123 Slater St, 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"James Chan","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-01-23-246274512.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n7:00-7:15pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:15-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\nIn addition to our weekly in-person hacknights, the YOWCT community uses Slack and Trello to communicate and collaborate on projects. 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Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n7:00-7:15pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:15-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============","attendee_count":25,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/246274476/","slug":"2018-01-16-246274476"},{"id":"246274054","title":"Hacknight Session #57: Help lead the YOWCT community!","date":"2018-01-09T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"123 Slater St, 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"James Chan","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2018-01-09-246274054.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to a special hacknight to lend your time, talents, and energy to help lead and foster the Ottawa Civic Tech community! There will be no guest speaker or project work for this week - instead, YOWCT's volunteer organizers are taking this opportunity to discuss and plan what's in store for 2018, and invite anyone interested in contributing to join us.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:15pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:15-6:30pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n6:30-8:30pm -- Volunteer organizers meeting\n==============","attendee_count":26,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/246274054/","slug":"2018-01-09-246274054"},{"id":"245951259","title":"Hacknight Session #56: Holiday Pub Social!","date":"2017-12-19T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Fox and Feather Pub","address":"283 Elgin Street","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":null,"speaker_org":null,"hosts":["mike gifford"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-12-19-245951259.jpeg","description_markdown":"It's the last Ottawa Civic Tech meetup of 2017...come hang out with the YOWCT community, and enjoy some food, drinks, and holiday cheer!","attendee_count":7,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/245951259/","slug":"2017-12-19-245951259"},{"id":"245528604","title":"Hacknight Session #55","date":"2017-12-12T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Open Concept","address":"571 Somerset St.","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":null,"speaker_org":null,"hosts":["mike gifford"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-12-12-245528604.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n7:00-7:15pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:15-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============","attendee_count":12,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/245528604/","slug":"2017-12-12-245528604"},{"id":"245528576","title":"Hacknight Session #54","date":"2017-12-05T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Open Concept","address":"571 Somerset St.","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Sean Boots","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["mike gifford","Sean Boots"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-12-05-245528576.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n7:00-7:15pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:15-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============","attendee_count":17,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/245528576/","slug":"2017-12-05-245528576"},{"id":"244520014","title":"Hacknight Session #53: Featuring Nico Koenig","date":"2017-11-28T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"123 Slater St, 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Nico Koenig","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots","James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-11-28-244520014.jpeg","description_markdown":"Presentation topic: Taking Online Education Offline\nPeer 2 Peer University (https://www.p2pu.org/en/) (P2PU) has been developing a new model for online and offline learning called learning circles: lightly-facilitated study groups for people who want to take online courses, together, in-person. The presentation will highlight how the Toronto Public Library, along with libraries across the world, are using learning circles to achieve accessible education, support digital inclusion and take advantage of open education resources.\n==============\nYou are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome; Presentation from guest speaker and Q&A\n7:00-7:20pm -- Introductions\n7:20-7:30pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:30-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\nGuest speaker: Nico Koenig\nNico Koenig works at the intersection community building and community-based education. As Community Lead for P2PU, he coordinates the Learning Circle program and is looking to expand this model into Canada. He has a decade of experience in developing, coordinating and facilitating non-formal and community-based adult education curricula and projects. Find out more at p2pu.org.\n==============","attendee_count":21,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/244520014/","slug":"2017-11-28-244520014"},{"id":"243889291","title":"Hacknight Session #52","date":"2017-11-21T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"123 Slater St, 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"James Chan","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-11-21-243889291.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome and Introductions\n7:00-7:15pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:15-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============","attendee_count":18,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/243889291/","slug":"2017-11-21-243889291"},{"id":"243891695","title":"Hacknight Session #51: Featuring Michael Karlin","date":"2017-11-14T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Rebel.com","address":"12 York St, Ottawa, ON K1N 5S6","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Michael Karlin","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["James Chan","Elizabeth","Brett Tackaberry"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-11-14-243891695.jpeg","description_markdown":"Presentation topic:\nAI and automation are taking the world by storm. Amidst hope and hype, governments are faced with trying to understand how and where to apply this technology, and how to do so ethically. Michael has the (herculean) task of developing a policy and implementation framework for how government applies AI, and needs your help! In this discussion, Michael will highlight some of the use cases under exploration and the policy and ethical issues being explored.\n==============\nYou are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome; Presentation from guest speaker and Q&A\n7:00-7:20pm -- Introductions\n7:20-7:30pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:30-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\nGuest speaker: Michael Karlin\nMichael Karlin is an Advisor at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, where he specializes in public policy considerations of artificial intelligence and automation. Over his 10-year career with the public service, he’s had fun providing advice to senior officials and Ministers on complex ethical and public policy issues. In this capacity he has won numerous policy and innovation awards, as well as three chili cookoffs. Prior to his time at TBS, Michael worked in diverse roles at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada Border Services Agency and the Public Health Agency of Canada.\nMichael holds a BA from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario; and an MA and LLM from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. He had a hard time concentrating in his twenties. Follow him on Twitter or Medium @supergovernance.\n==============","attendee_count":23,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/243891695/","slug":"2017-11-14-243891695"},{"id":"243608705","title":"Hacknight Session #50: Featuring Jen Birch and Mike Colledge from Ipsos Canada","date":"2017-11-07T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Rebel.com","address":"12 York St, Ottawa, ON K1N 5S6","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Jen Birch & Mike Colledge","speaker_org":"Ipsos Canada","hosts":["Brett Tackaberry"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-11-07-243608705.jpeg","description_markdown":"Come celebrate Ottawa Civic Tech's 1-year anniversary!\nYou are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome; Presentation from guest speaker and Q&A\n7:00-7:20pm -- Introductions\n7:20-7:30pm -- Project updates + new pitches (bonus: representatives from the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development will be present to answer questions about the Student Pathways Challenge (https://studentpathwayschallenge.ca/)!)\n7:30-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\nGuest speakers: Mike Colledge and Jen Birch, President and Vice President of Public Affairs at Ipsos Canada (https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/CanadaNext-2017)\nWith over 20 years in the business, Mike has worked with leading governments and businesses to use evidence to drive change. Jennifer Birch, Vice President at Ipsos Public Affairs Canada is a seasoned research professional with over a decade of experience in using data to help organizations succeed. Together, they will join us to discuss the results of a recent Ipsos study called CanadaNext (https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/CanadaNext-2017).\nIpsos CanadaNext looks at the wave of change about to happen across Canada. Driven by demographic shifts and technology advancement, our economy, our communities, our governments, our businesses, and our lives are about to change drastically. Find out what Canadians expect to happen and how they feel about it.\n==============","attendee_count":42,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/243608705/","slug":"2017-11-07-243608705"},{"id":"243891738","title":"Hacknight Session #49: Featuring Pia Waugh from the Government of New Zealand","date":"2017-10-31T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"University of Ottawa - Lamoureux Hall, Room 243","address":"145 Jean-Jacques-Lussier Private","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Pia Waugh","speaker_org":"Government of New Zealand","hosts":["James Chan","Elizabeth"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-10-31-243891738.jpeg","description_markdown":"Guest speaker: Pia Waugh\nPia Waugh is an open government and data ninja* who has recently joined the digital transformation and gov as a platform cabal. She works within the (public sector) machine to enable greater transparency, democratic engagement, citizen-centric design and real, pragmatic actual innovation in the public sector and beyond. Pia was awarded as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Women in Australia for 2014.\nPia will talk about the possible roles of government in society now and into the future, the shift from controller to enabler, and helping government become a node in the network. Citizens are more powerful than ever before, a fact that governments everywhere struggle with but need to understand and embrace.\n*Pia has also studied martial arts since 1990, so she is more qualified than most to this title ;)\n==================\nYou are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome; Presentation from guest speaker and Q&A\n7:00-7:20pm -- Introductions\n7:20-7:30pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:30-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n8:30pm -- [Bonus] Join the #GCdigital Halloween Mixer (https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/gcdigital-halloween-mixer-rencontre-gcnumerique-de-lhalloween-tickets-37763831637) hosted by the Canadian Digital Service at the Aulde Dubliner\n==============","attendee_count":18,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/243891738/","slug":"2017-10-31-243891738"},{"id":"243889706","title":"Hacknight Session #48: Featuring Jesse Darling from the Brookfield Institute","date":"2017-10-24T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"University of Ottawa - Lamoureux Hall, Room 243","address":"145 Jean-Jacques-Lussier Private","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Jesse Darling","speaker_org":"Brookfield Institute","hosts":["James Chan","Elizabeth"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-10-24-243889706.jpeg","description_markdown":"Guest speaker: Jesse Darling, Senior Projects Designer from the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship\nJesse will be inviting the YOWCT community to participate in the Student Pathways Challenge (https://studentpathwayschallenge.ca/). Help develop meaningful solutions for high school students and be eligible to win up to $30,000! More info below.\n==============\nYou are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome; Presentation from guest speaker and Q&A\n7:00-7:20pm -- Introductions\n7:20-7:30pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:30-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\n\n==============\nJesse works at the intersection of design, technology and public policy. She has a passion for bringing diverse people and organizations together to tackle complex problems. Whether it be in a professional capacity at the Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship or in a voluntary position as incoming Co-Chair of the Emerging Leaders Network– she empowers citizens to play an active role in shaping the programs and policies that impact their communities.\nOn October 19th, the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development launched the Student Pathways Challenge (https://studentpathwayschallenge.ca/).\nThe Ministry recognized that labour market information – i.e. information about jobs and salaries, current employment conditions and future trends – is rarely, if ever, consulted when a high school student is trying to decide what to do after high school.\nThe Ministry also recognized that various other factors heavily influenced a student’s awareness of the various education, training and employment available.\nThis led to the development of a 6-week challenge that seeks to answer the following question:\nHow might we help high school students gain a better understanding of available employment opportunities and the pathways to get there by means of a digital tool?\nBy participating in the Challenge you’ll help develop meaningful solutions for high school students and be eligible to win up to $30,000.","attendee_count":13,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/243889706/","slug":"2017-10-24-243889706"},{"id":"244116982","title":"Hacknight Session #47: Featuring Chris Cairns from Skylight","date":"2017-10-17T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"University of Ottawa - Lamoureux Hall, Room 243","address":"145 Jean-Jacques-Lussier Private","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Chris Cairns","speaker_org":"Skylight","hosts":["James Chan","Elizabeth"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-10-17-244116982.jpeg","description_markdown":"Guest speaker: Chris Cairns from Skylight (https://skylight.digital/)\nChris served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow in 2013, and co-founded 18F and the Technology Transformation Service, both housed within the General Services Administration. He specializes in digital leadership and transformation, digital procurement, and product development and management, and will be speaking about his experience and lessons learned in standing-up a large digital team in government, and how such a team of the nation's top talent can be leveraged to drive broad transformation.\n==============\nYou are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome; Presentation from guest speaker and Q&A\n7:00-7:20pm -- Introductions\n7:20-7:30pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:30-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\nIn addition to our weekly in-person hacknights, the YOWCT community uses Trello to organize and manage our projects, and Slack to communicate and collaborate. Find our Trello board here: https://trello.com/b/LoOLqqad","attendee_count":18,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/244116982/","slug":"2017-10-17-244116982"},{"id":"243889413","title":"Hacknight Session #46: Featuring Stephen Russett from DigitalState","date":"2017-10-10T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"University of Ottawa - Lamoureux Hall, Room 243","address":"145 Jean-Jacques-Lussier Private","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Stephen Russett","speaker_org":"DigitalState","hosts":["Elizabeth"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-10-10-243889413.jpeg","description_markdown":"Guest speaker: Stephen Russett, co-founder of DigitalState (http://www.digitalstate.ca/)\nStephen is the co-founder of DigitalState, an open source digital public services platform for governments to define, design, engage and report. He has worked on digital transformation projects with the city governments of Ottawa, Montréal, Hamilton, and Toronto, as well as the governments of PEI, the Yukon, Bermuda, and Australia.\nHe will be presenting DigitalState's latest project which recently went live: beta.montreal.ca (https://beta.montreal.ca/en), from one of the first major cities in Canada to deploy a Smart Cities initiative based transformation. Learn about how some of DigitalState’s platform is being used to provide automation, simplify bureaucracy management, provide detailed reporting, and use APIs that integrate with other systems.\n==============\nYou are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome; Presentation from guest speaker and Q&A\n7:00-7:20pm -- Introductions\n7:20-7:30pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:30-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n==============\nIn addition to our weekly in-person hacknights, the YOWCT community uses Trello to organize and manage our projects, and Slack to communicate and collaborate. Find our Trello board here: https://trello.com/b/LoOLqqad","attendee_count":16,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/243889413/","slug":"2017-10-10-243889413"},{"id":"243152441","title":"Hacknight Session #45: Featuring Holly Todd & Parker Selman from Enactus uOttawa","date":"2017-10-03T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"University of Ottawa - Lamoureux Hall, Room 243","address":"145 Jean-Jacques-Lussier Private","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Holly Todd & Parker Selman","speaker_org":"Enactus uOttawa","hosts":["Elizabeth"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-10-03-243152441.jpeg","description_markdown":"You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly \"hacknights\", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.\nYou do not need to be a \"techie\" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!\nThe first Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.\nAgenda:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome; Presentation from guest speaker and Q&A\n7:00-7:20pm -- Introductions\n7:20-7:30pm -- Project updates + new pitches\n7:30-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\nGuest speaker: Holly Todd, President and Parker Selman, Vice President of Project Management at Enactus uOttawa (http://www.enactusuottawa.ca/)\nHolly and Parker will be talking about how they combine tech and business to create positive change in their community through social enterprise. Enactus is a student group based out of the University of Ottawa that empowers students to learn real business skills and make an impact through experiential learning.\n==============","attendee_count":32,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/243152441/","slug":"2017-10-03-243152441"},{"id":"242958007","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech - Working Session","date":"2017-09-26T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Rebel.com","address":"12 York St, Ottawa, ON K1N 5S6","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Working Session","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-09-26-242958007.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda:\n6:00 p.m. Doors Open\n6:30 - 6:45 p.m. Welcome + Intros\n6:45 - 8:20 p.m. Working session with collaboration and breakout sessions for group work\n8:20 - 8:30pm Wrap Up\n\n==============\nGuest speaker: TBA","attendee_count":15,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/242958007/","slug":"2017-09-26-242958007"},{"id":"242957995","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech - Working Session","date":"2017-09-19T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Rebel.com","address":"12 York St, Ottawa, ON K1N 5S6","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Working Session","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-09-19-242957995.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda:\n6:00 p.m. Doors Open\n6:30 - 6:45 p.m. Welcome + Intros\n6:45 - 8:20 p.m. Working session with collaboration and breakout sessions for group work\n8:20 - 8:30pm Wrap Up","attendee_count":12,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/242957995/","slug":"2017-09-19-242957995"},{"id":"242939994","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech - featuring Wendy Luciani from the Canadian Digital Service!","date":"2017-09-12T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Rebel.com","address":"12 York St, Ottawa, ON K1N 5S6","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Wendy Luciani","speaker_org":"Canadian Digital Service","hosts":["Sean Boots"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-09-12-242939994.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda:\n6:00 p.m. Doors Open\n6:30 - 7:00 p.m. Presentation from guest speaker and Q and A\n7:00 - 7:15 p.m. Welcome + Intros\n7:15 - 8:20 p.m. Working session with collaboration and breakout sessions for group work\n8:20 - 8:30pm Wrap Up\n\n==============\nGuest speaker: Wendy Luciani from the Canadian Digital Service!\nWendy Luciani is the partnerships lead for the Canadian Digital Service (https://digital.canada.ca/). She leads CDS’ project selection process, working with departments to identify and select digital service projects to work on together.\nPrior to joining CDS, Wendy led Traveller Transformation at the Canada Border Services Agency, and launched the eDeclaration mobile app, which replaced the paper arrival forms with an offline-capable smartphone solution.\nIn her free time, if she isn't on a mountain or a lake, she's busy raising two awesome little humans.","attendee_count":36,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/242939994/","slug":"2017-09-12-242939994"},{"id":"242938661","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech Working Session","date":"2017-09-05T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Grounded Kitchen, Coffee & Bar","address":"100 Gloucester St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Sean Boots","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-09-05-242938661.jpeg","description_markdown":"During the summer, Ottawa Civic Tech will be hosting informal working sessions for those who wish to continue working on their civic tech projects, looking to join up with those working on projects, and/or looking to connect to the community. Everyone is welcome!\nWe'll be trying to do these summer sessions at coffee shops, restaurants, and patios to also allow for social space as well as food and beverages. Please try to RSVP if you can so that we can manage numbers and potential venue reservations/estimates for seating. You are still very welcome if you didn't have a chance to RSVP. Hope to see you there!","attendee_count":15,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/242938661/","slug":"2017-09-05-242938661"},{"id":"242754215","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech Working Session","date":"2017-08-29T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Grounded Kitchen, Coffee & Bar","address":"100 Gloucester St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Sean Boots","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-08-29-242754215.jpeg","description_markdown":"During the summer, Ottawa Civic Tech will be hosting informal working sessions for those who wish to continue working on their civic tech projects, looking to join up with those working on projects, and/or looking to connect to the community. Everyone is welcome!\nWe'll be trying to do these summer sessions at coffee shops, restaurants, and patios to also allow for social space as well as food and beverages. Please try to RSVP if you can so that we can manage numbers and potential venue reservations/estimates for seating. You are still very welcome if you didn't have a chance to RSVP. Hope to see you there!","attendee_count":18,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/242754215/","slug":"2017-08-29-242754215"},{"id":"242626334","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech Working Session + Organizer Meeting","date":"2017-08-22T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"123 Slater St, 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Sean Boots","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots","James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-08-22-242626334.jpeg","description_markdown":"[UPDATE 1] Along with our usual weekly meetup, we are also having an organizers meeting to plan out our Fall activities for the YOWCT community. Anyone who is interested in getting more involved as a volunteer organizer is welcome to join us! Making YOWCT happen is a team effort - we are always looking for support in everything from booking speakers and venues, digital communications, partnerships and community outreach, etc.\n[UPDATE 2] Please be advised that there is another event taking place at Impact Hub at the same time, so please be mindful of noise and resist the strong temptation to sample any refreshments from/for the other group! Everyone is welcome to bring their own food/drink - we have a microwave and Bridgehead coffee in our communal kitchen.\n====\nDuring the summer, Ottawa Civic Tech will be hosting informal working sessions for those who wish to continue working on their civic tech projects, looking to join up with those working on projects, and/or looking to connect to the community. Everyone is welcome!\nWe'll be trying to do these summer sessions at coffee shops, restaurants, and patios to also allow for social space as well as food and beverages. Please try to RSVP if you can so that we can manage numbers and potential venue reservations/estimates for seating. You are still very welcome if you didn't have a chance to RSVP. Hope to see you there!","attendee_count":14,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/242626334/","slug":"2017-08-22-242626334"},{"id":"242395195","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech Working Session","date":"2017-08-15T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Elgin and Laurier","address":"150 Elgin St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Jason White","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["mike gifford","Jason White"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-08-15-242395195.jpeg","description_markdown":"During the summer, Ottawa Civic Tech will be hosting informal working sessions for those who wish to continue working on their civic tech projects, looking to join up with those working on projects, and/or looking to connect to the community. Everyone is welcome!\nWe'll be trying to do these summer sessions at coffee shops, restaurants, and patios to also allow for social space as well as food and beverages. Please try to RSVP if you can so that we can manage numbers and potential venue reservations/estimates for seating. You are still very welcome if you didn't have a chance to RSVP. Hope to see you there!","attendee_count":14,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/242395195/","slug":"2017-08-15-242395195"},{"id":"242210301","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech Working Session","date":"2017-08-08T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Open Concept","address":"571 Somerset St.","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Sean Boots","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots","mike gifford"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-08-08-242210301.jpeg","description_markdown":"During the summer, Ottawa Civic Tech will be hosting informal working sessions for those who wish to continue working on their civic tech projects, looking to join up with those working on projects, and/or looking to connect to the community. Everyone is welcome!\nWe'll be trying to do these summer sessions at coffee shops, restaurants, and patios to also allow for social space as well as food and beverages. Please try to RSVP if you can so that we can manage numbers and potential venue reservations/estimates for seating. You are still very welcome if you didn't have a chance to RSVP. Hope to see you there!","attendee_count":10,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/242210301/","slug":"2017-08-08-242210301"},{"id":"242020545","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech Working Session","date":"2017-08-01T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Ministry of Coffee and Social Affairs","address":"1013 Wellington St W","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Alexandre Enkerli","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Alexandre Enkerli","Jessica Stark"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-08-01-242020545.jpeg","description_markdown":"During the summer, Ottawa Civic Tech will be hosting informal working sessions for those who wish to continue working on their civic tech projects, looking to join up with those working on projects, and/or looking to connect to the community. Everyone is welcome!\nWe'll be trying to do these summer sessions at coffee shops, restaurants, and patios to also allow for social space as well as food and beverages. Please try to RSVP if you can so that we can manage numbers and potential venue reservations/estimates for seating. You are still very welcome if you didn't have a chance to RSVP. Hope to see you there!","attendee_count":11,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/242020545/","slug":"2017-08-01-242020545"},{"id":"241834370","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech Working Session","date":"2017-07-25T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Grounded Kitchen, Coffee & Bar","address":"100 Gloucester St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Sean Boots","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-07-25-241834370.jpeg","description_markdown":"During the summer, Ottawa Civic Tech will be hosting informal working sessions for those who wish to continue working on their civic tech projects, looking to join up with those working on projects, and/or looking to connect to the community. Everyone is welcome!\nWe'll be trying to do these summer sessions at coffee shops, restaurants, and patios to also allow for social space as well as food and beverages. Please try to RSVP if you can so that we can manage numbers and potential venue reservations/estimates for seating. You are still very welcome if you didn't have a chance to RSVP. Hope to see you there!","attendee_count":11,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/241834370/","slug":"2017-07-25-241834370"},{"id":"241621264","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech Working Session","date":"2017-07-18T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Grounded Kitchen, Coffee & Bar","address":"100 Gloucester St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Sean Boots","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-07-18-241621264.jpeg","description_markdown":"During the summer, Ottawa Civic Tech will be hosting informal working sessions for those who wish to continue working on their civic tech projects, looking to join up with those working on projects, and/or looking to connect to the community. Everyone is welcome!\nWe'll be trying to do these summer sessions at coffee shops, restaurants, and patios to also allow for social space as well as food and beverages. Please try to RSVP if you can so that we can manage numbers and potential venue reservations/estimates for seating. You are still very welcome if you didn't have a chance to RSVP. Hope to see you there!","attendee_count":9,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/241621264/","slug":"2017-07-18-241621264"},{"id":"241311802","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech Working Session","date":"2017-07-11T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Nate's Deli","address":"152 Sparks Street","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Sean Boots","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-07-11-241311802.jpeg","description_markdown":"During the summer, Ottawa Civic Tech will be hosting informal working sessions for those who wish to continue working on their civic tech projects, looking to join up with those working on projects, and/or looking to connect to the community. Everyone is welcome!\nWe'll be trying to do these summer sessions at coffee shops, restaurants, and patios to also allow for social space as well as food and beverages. Please try to RSVP if you can so that we can manage numbers and potential venue reservations/estimates for seating. You are still very welcome if you didn't have a chance to RSVP. Hope to see you there!","attendee_count":7,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/241311802/","slug":"2017-07-11-241311802"},{"id":"241311646","title":"Ottawa Civic Tech Working Session","date":"2017-07-04T19:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Grounded Kitchen, Coffee & Bar","address":"100 Gloucester St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Derek Alton","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Derek Alton"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-07-04-241311646.jpeg","description_markdown":"During the summer, Ottawa Civic Tech will be hosting informal working sessions for those who wish to continue working on their civic tech projects, looking to join up with those working on projects, and/or looking to connect to the community. Everyone is welcome!\nWe'll be trying to do these summer sessions at coffee shops, restaurants, and patios to also allow for social space as well as food and beverages. Please try to RSVP if you can so that we can manage numbers and potential venue reservations/estimates for seating. You are still very welcome if you didn't have a chance to RSVP. Hope to see you there!","attendee_count":1,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/241311646/","slug":"2017-07-04-241311646"},{"id":"240138036","title":"Session #31: Featuring Lia Milito & Luke Simcoe from Code for Canada!","date":"2017-06-27T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Rebel.com","address":"12 York St, Ottawa, ON K1N 5S6","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Lia Milito & Luke Simcoe","speaker_org":"Code for Canada","hosts":["mike gifford","Dan Monafu","Sean Boots"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-06-27-240138036.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday, June 27th:\n6:30pm Networking (feel free to bring your dinner!)\n6:30 - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00 - 7:20pm Presentation from Code for Canada\n7:20 - 7:30pm Q&A\n7:30 - 7:50pm Project updates & new pitches\n7:50 - 8:20pm Hackportion with breakout conversations & group work\n8:20 - 8:30pm Wrap Up\n\n====\nSpecial guest: Code for Canada (http://codefor.ca/)\nCode for Canada is a national nonprofit that's connecting government innovators with members of the (civic) tech and design community, so they can build better digital public services together. Lia Milito (https://twitter.com/liabadia) and Luke Simcoe (https://twitter.com/Code4Luke) from Code for Canada will present the latest news from the organization – including an exciting new opportunity for Ottawa technologists to participate in their fellowship program – and share ways to get involved.\n====\nAs this is our last formal Meetup before the start of the summer season, we'll plan on going for drinks afterwards in the market nearby. Feel free to invite friends and colleagues to join!\nDuring July and August, we'll continue meeting informally (in coffee shops etc.) on Tuesdays as people are interested to work on projects. Stay tuned to the YOWCT Slack channel (https://yowcivictech.slack.com/) for updates on where we'll be. Our regularly-scheduled Meetups will be back at the start of September.","attendee_count":32,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/240138036/","slug":"2017-06-27-240138036"},{"id":"240138024","title":"Session #30: Featuring Laura Wesley & Sean Kibbee (Government of Canada)","date":"2017-06-20T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Rebel.com","address":"12 York St, Ottawa, ON K1N 5S6","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Laura Wesley","speaker_org":"Sean Kibbee","hosts":["mike gifford","Dan Monafu","Sean Boots"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-06-20-240138024.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday, June 20th:\n6:30pm Networking (feel free to bring your dinner!)\n6:30 - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00 - 7:20pm Presentation from guest speaker\n7:20 - 7:30pm Q&A\n7:30 - 7:50pm Project updates & new pitches\n7:50 - 8:20pm Hackportion with breakout conversations & group work\n8:20 - 8:30pm Wrap Up\n\n==============\nGuest speakers: Laura Wesley and Sean Kibbee\nMeeting citizen expectations to participate in decision-making means working together across organizational boundaries to advance shared outcomes. To help deliver on the Government of Canada's commitment to Open Dialogue / Open Policy Making, we are collaborating with civic tech and public engagement practitioners to co-create an eco-system of tools for citizens and government to engage online.\nWe will use this time to bring the prototype and the “behind the scenes” workings to civic tech, as we continue building out this proof of concept.\nLaura Wesley (https://twitter.com/ResultsJunkie) is the Executive Director of the Consultations and Public Engagement division of the Privy Council Office. Laura has a track record of disrupting the status quo to bring about results. Her knowledge of, and interest in, systems change, service design, and human motivation form a lens through which to consider new ways of working together. After more than a decade working in the federal public service, she's come to believe that working across boundaries – sectors, disciplines and organizations – results in better outcomes for everyone.\nSean Kibbee (https://twitter.com/SDKibb) is a Free Agent with Natural Resources Canada working as a Senior Systems Analyst within TBS. He has over 15 years experience in government IT. Sean specializes in mobile app technologies and leveraging open source for creative solutions within the Federal Government.","attendee_count":27,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/240138024/","slug":"2017-06-20-240138024"},{"id":"240138016","title":"Session #29: Ottawa Civic Tech @Rebel.com","date":"2017-06-13T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Rebel.com","address":"12 York St, Ottawa, ON K1N 5S6","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Dan Monafu","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Dan Monafu","mike gifford"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-06-13-240138016.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday, June 13th:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome + Intros 7:00-7:10pm -- Project Overviews\n7:10-8:20pm -- Breakout groups & Project Work\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n\n====","attendee_count":13,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/240138016/","slug":"2017-06-13-240138016"},{"id":"240137785","title":"Session #28: Ottawa Civic Tech Featuring Tracey Lauriault","date":"2017-06-06T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Rebel.com","address":"12 York St, Ottawa, ON K1N 5S6","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Tracey Lauriault","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Dan Monafu","mike gifford"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-06-06-240137785.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday, June 6th:\n6:00pm Networking (feel free to bring your dinner!)\n6:30 - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00 - 7:20pm Presentation from guest speaker\n7:20 - 7:30pm Q&A\n7:30 - 7:50pm Project updates & new pitches\n7:50 - 8:20pm Hackportion with breakout conversations & group work\n8:20 - 8:30pm Wrap Up\n\n==============\nGuest speaker: Tracey Lauriault\nTracey Lauriault will give a talk about understanding spacial media, data and the city, and the role of civic tech in a smart city (and particularly precision agriculture). Tracey (@TraceyLauriault) is Assistant Professor of Critical Media Studies and Big Data in the Communication Studies School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University.","attendee_count":20,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/240137785/","slug":"2017-06-06-240137785"},{"id":"239298684","title":"Session #27: Ottawa Civic Tech","date":"2017-05-30T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"123 Slater St, 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"James Chan","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-05-30-239298684.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday, May 30th:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome + Intros\n7:00-7:10pm -- Project Overviews\n7:10-8:20pm -- Breakout groups & Project Work\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up","attendee_count":13,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/239298684/","slug":"2017-05-30-239298684"},{"id":"239298674","title":"Session #26: Ottawa Civic Tech ft. Ryan Tumilty from Metro Ottawa","date":"2017-05-23T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"123 Slater St, 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Ryan Tumilty","speaker_org":"Metro Ottawa","hosts":["James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-05-23-239298674.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday, May 23rd:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome + Intros\n7:00-7:15pm -- Guest presentation from Ryan Tumilty\n7:15-7:25pm -- Q&A\n7:25-8:25pm -- Hacknight\n8:25-8:30pm -- Wrap-up\n\n====\nRyan Tumilty is a senior reporter with Metro covering politics at all levels of government. He enjoys books, beer and naps.\nHe will be speaking about his data journalism and civic tech-related project called \"Not in Service\" ( http://www.metronews.ca/news/ottawa/2017/05/14/how-metro-created-a-database-of-cancelled-bus-trips-.html ), which takes a close look at the bus cancellations that seem to ripple across the transit system by collecting data that's tweeted out by OC Transpo.","attendee_count":14,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/239298674/","slug":"2017-05-23-239298674"},{"id":"239298659","title":"Session #25: Ottawa Civic Tech","date":"2017-05-16T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"123 Slater St, 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"James Chan","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-05-16-239298659.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday, May 9th:\n6:00-6:30pm -- Networking\n6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome + Intros\n7:00-7:10pm -- Project Overviews\n7:10-8:20pm -- Breakout groups & Project Work\n8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up","attendee_count":13,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/239298659/","slug":"2017-05-16-239298659"},{"id":"239298629","title":"Session #24: Ottawa Civic Tech Featuring Jason White from Shopify","date":"2017-05-09T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"123 Slater St, 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Jason White","speaker_org":"Shopify","hosts":["James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-05-09-239298629.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday, May 9th:\n6:30pm Networking (feel free to bring your dinner!)\n6:30 - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00 - 7:20pm Presentation from guest speaker\n7:20 - 7:30pm Q&A\n7:30 - 7:50pm Project updates & new pitches\n7:50 - 8:20pm Hackportion with breakout conversations & group work\n8:20 - 8:30pm Wrap Up\n\n==============\nGuest speaker: Jason White\nJason White (https://twitter.com/Actinolite) joined the data team at Shopify in 2012, and has led data analytics teams for support, business development, and sales functions at Shopify. He is now a data engineering lead helping to build the next generation of Shopify's data platform.\nWe'll go through an example of a Python scraper for the CMHC web site, which has housing information for most municipalities across Canada.","attendee_count":28,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/239298629/","slug":"2017-05-09-239298629"},{"id":"238544718","title":"Session #23: Ottawa Civic Tech","date":"2017-04-25T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Maker Space North - 250 City Centre Avenue","address":"Bay #216 (take ramp on south end to the second level west or rear of building)","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Dan Monafu","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Dan Monafu"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-04-25-238544718.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday, April 25:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm Network, settle in\n6:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00pm - 7:10pm Project Overviews\n7:10-8:20pm Hackportion + Office Hours\n8:20pm-8:30pm Wrap Up\n\n==========\nThrough a partnership with Lighthouse Labs (https://www.lighthouselabs.ca/), YOWCT is giving away a spot at a six-week Intro to Web Development course.\nHow do you win? Attend YOWCT for the next two weeks (April 25 and May 2), and enter your name into the draw. The more times you attend YOWCT and enter the contest, the more chances you get to win! On May 2, a winner will be drawn and notified, and will start their entry into the world of Web Development on May 8.\nMore details: The course with Lighthouse Labs is two nights a week (three hours for each session), running from May 8 - June 14, at Impact Hub Ottawa. This is a high value course, and YOWCT has you covered! Find out more about the course here. (https://www.lighthouselabs.ca/other-locations)","attendee_count":12,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/238544718/","slug":"2017-04-25-238544718"},{"id":"238544703","title":"Session #22: Ottawa Civic Tech","date":"2017-04-18T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Maker Space North - 250 City Centre Avenue","address":"Bay #216 (take ramp on south end to the second level west or rear of building)","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Dan Monafu","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Dan Monafu"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-04-18-238544703.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday, April 18:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm Network, settle in\n6:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00pm - 7:10pm Project Overviews\n7:10-8:20pm Hackportion + Office Hours\n8:20pm-8:30pm Wrap Up","attendee_count":9,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/238544703/","slug":"2017-04-18-238544703"},{"id":"238544650","title":"Session #21: Featuring Janak Alford, Komi Olaf and Mademill.com team","date":"2017-04-11T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Maker Space North - 250 City Centre Avenue","address":"Bay #216 (take ramp on south end to the second level west or rear of building)","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Janak Alford","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Dan Monafu"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-04-11-238544650.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month typically kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good). Agenda for Tuesday, April 11th:\n6:00 - 6:30pm Networking (feel free to bring your dinner!)\n6:30 - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00 - 7:20pm Presentation from guest speaker\n7:20 - 7:30pm Q&A\n7:30 - 7:50pm Project updates & new pitches\n7:50 - 8:20pm Hackportion with breakout conversations & group work\n8:20pm - 8:30pm Wrap Up\n\nWe are thrilled to feature a number of special guests speakers for this, our second Tuesday of the month. The recently-launched Mademill project team (www.mademill.com) will be joining us to talk about this exciting new Ottawa-based project. Joining us on the night will be:\nJanak Alford is the CEO of prototypeD and the lead designer of the innovation pod. He is focused on developing sustainable urban and national solutions for Canada and abroad. He uses design as a tool in conjunction with business and financial thinking to develop new economic opportunities.\nJustin Holness is the digital media director of Mademill and the owner of unity entertainment, a youth-led community based organization providing a creative environment for Indigenous people to express themselves and their heritage through all forms of art, music and fashion.\nJason Alford Is a software developer and the Makerspace Director of Mademill. His expertise as a maker was responsible for the creation of the steel structure that serves as the bones of the pod.\nKomi Olaf is a visual artist, spoken word poet and an architectural designer with prototypeD. His work as an Afro-futurist is focused on the intersectionality of culture and race through a technological lens. He pushes his art in many directions, immersing his realistically portrayed characters in mysterious dream worlds of splendor and soul.","attendee_count":17,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/238544650/","slug":"2017-04-11-238544650"},{"id":"238544332","title":"Session #20: Featuring John Richardson from Ethelo","date":"2017-04-04T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Makerspace North","address":"250 City Centre #216","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"John Richardson","speaker_org":"Ethelo","hosts":["Dan Monafu"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-04-04-238544332.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good). Agenda for Tuesday, April 4th:\n6:00 - 6:30pm Networking (feel free to bring your dinner!)\n6:30 - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00 - 7:15pm Presentation from guest speaker\n7:15 - 7:30pm Q&A\n7:30 - 7:50pm Project updates & new pitches\n7:50 - 8:20pm Hackportion with breakout conversations & group work\n8:20pm - 8:30pm Wrap Up\n\nThis month's guest speaker is John Richardson, CEO of Vancouver-based Ethelo, who has graciously accepted to speak to YOWCT while in Ottawa.\nMore about Ethelo here: http://ethelo.com/\nEthelo’s powerful algorithmic technology harnesses the powers of optimized consensus and scenario analysis within a comprehensive engagement framework.","attendee_count":21,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/238544332/","slug":"2017-04-04-238544332"},{"id":"238060661","title":"Session #19: Ottawa Civic Tech","date":"2017-03-28T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"City Hall, Colonel-By Room","address":"110 Laurier Avenue West","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Sean Boots","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots","James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-03-28-238060661.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday, March 28:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm Network, settle in\n6:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00pm - 7:10pm Project Overviews\n7:10-8:20pm Hackportion + Office Hours\n8:20pm-8:30pm Wrap Up","attendee_count":14,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/238060661/","slug":"2017-03-28-238060661"},{"id":"238060635","title":"Session #18: Ottawa Civic Tech","date":"2017-03-21T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"City Hall, Colonel-By Room","address":"110 Laurier Avenue West","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Sean Boots","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots","James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-03-21-238060635.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday, March 21:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm Network, settle in\n6:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00pm - 7:10pm Project Overviews\n7:10-8:20pm Hackportion + Office Hours\n8:20pm-8:30pm Wrap Up","attendee_count":10,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/238060635/","slug":"2017-03-21-238060635"},{"id":"238060592","title":"Session #17: Ottawa Civic Tech","date":"2017-03-14T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"City Hall, Colonel-By Room","address":"110 Laurier Avenue West","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Sean Boots","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots","James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-03-14-238060592.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday, March 14:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm Network, settle in\n6:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00pm - 7:10pm Project Overviews\n7:10-8:20pm Hackportion + Office Hours\n8:20pm-8:30pm Wrap Up","attendee_count":9,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/238060592/","slug":"2017-03-14-238060592"},{"id":"237929224","title":"Session #16: Featuring Beverley Gibas and Robert Giggey from the City of Ottawa","date":"2017-03-07T18:30:00-05:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"City Hall, Richmond Room","address":"110 Laurier Avenue West","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Beverley Gibas & Robert Giggey","speaker_org":"City of Ottawa","hosts":["James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-03-07-237929224.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good). Agenda for Tuesday, March 7th:\n6:00 - 6:30pm Networking (feel free to bring your dinner!)\n6:30 - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00 - 7:15pm Presentation from guest speakers\n7:15 - 7:30pm Q&A\n7:30 - 7:50pm Project updates & new pitches\n7:50 - 8:20pm \"Hacknight\" with breakout conversations & group work\n8:20pm - 8:30pm Wrap Up\n\nThis month's guest speakers are Beverley Gibas and Robert Giggey from the City of Ottawa who will be introducing a new Open311 Web Services Pilot to the Ottawa Civic Tech community:\nTo support the City of Ottawa’s Strategic Objective to improve access to City services through digital service delivery, the City is launching an application program interface (API) that will allow the external community to develop applications that can submit Service Requests directly to the City as well as to consume data regarding these Service Requests. Information sent through the API will integrate with the existing Citizen Service Management (CSM) application without agent intervention. The API will allow developers to integrate features into existing apps, or be used in the development of new applications. A pilot approach is being used to evaluate uptake from the community and inform next steps for the City.","attendee_count":25,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/237929224/","slug":"2017-03-07-237929224"},{"id":"237552087","title":"Session #15: Ottawa Civic Tech (with speaker Walter Knitl, Principal at Praxiem)","date":"2017-02-28T18:30:00-05:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Open Concept","address":"571 Somerset St.","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Walter Knitl","speaker_org":"Praxiem","hosts":["Sean Boots","Megan Beretta","mike gifford"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-02-28-237552087.jpeg","description_markdown":"This week, we'll do an 'off-cycle' presentation; our guest speaker is Walter Knitl, Principal at Praxiem. Walter will speak to us on \"Internet of Things - Impact and Opportunity as Civic Tech\".\nAbstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) age is upon us with disruptive impact on business, work life, economy and society. But what is it exactly, what impact can it have on society, and what opportunities does it present for social good?\nBio: Walter is the principal at Praxiem, with main interest in the Internet of Things (IoT) - including immediate business and product application as well as societal impacts. He helped organize the IoT613 Conference and is the founder and administrator of IoT eXchange Ottawa.\n@praxiem (http://twitter.com/praxiem) / http://praxiem.com / @iotottawa (http://twitter.com/iotxottawa)\nAbout Ottawa Civic Tech: we meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday, February 28:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm Network, settle in\n6:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00pm - 7:20pm Guest speaker\n7:20 - 7:30 Project Pitches\n7:30-8:20pm Hackportion + Office Hours\n8:20pm-8:30pm Wrap Up","attendee_count":17,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/237552087/","slug":"2017-02-28-237552087"},{"id":"237552079","title":"Session #14: Ottawa Civic Tech","date":"2017-02-21T18:30:00-05:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Open Concept","address":"571 Somerset St.","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Sean Boots","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Sean Boots","Megan Beretta","mike gifford"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-02-21-237552079.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday, February 21:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm Network, settle in\n6:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00pm - 7:20pm Project Pitches\n7:20-8:20pm Hackportion + Office Hours\n8:20pm-8:30pm Wrap Up","attendee_count":7,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/237552079/","slug":"2017-02-21-237552079"},{"id":"237551738","title":"Session #13: Ottawa Civic Tech","date":"2017-02-14T18:30:00-05:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Open Concept","address":"571 Somerset St.","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Sean Boots","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["mike gifford","Sean Boots","Megan Beretta"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-02-14-237551738.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday, February 14:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm Network, settle in\n6:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00pm - 7:20pm Project Pitches\n7:20-8:20pm Hackportion + Office Hours\n8:20pm-8:30pm Wrap Up","attendee_count":5,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/237551738/","slug":"2017-02-14-237551738"},{"id":"236953888","title":"Session #12: Ottawa Civic Tech & Speaker Night ft. Ottawa Watch!","date":"2017-02-07T18:30:00-05:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Open Concept","address":"571 Somerset St.","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Ottawa Watch","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Megan Beretta"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-02-07-236953888.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday, January 17:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm Network, eat (food provided by you)\n6:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00pm - 7:30pm Presentation from Kevin O'Donnell about Ottwatch\n7:30-8:20pm Hackportion + Office Hours\n8:20pm-8:30pm Wrap Up\nOttawa Watch: The presentation will provide a short history of how OttWatch (developed from its first edition to its current form, the data gathering process, integration of data from multiple 'silos', and how the general public has contributed to improving the data from time to time.\nBio: Kevin O'Donnell is an information technology consultant with an interest in city issues. He runs OttWatch (http://ottwatch.ca), a website and Twitter account that tries to make it easier for people to connect with Ottawa's decision making process.\n@ottwatch (https://twitter.com/ottwatch) | ottwatch.ca","attendee_count":26,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/236953888/","slug":"2017-02-07-236953888"},{"id":"236953859","title":"Session #11: Ottawa Civic Tech","date":"2017-01-31T18:30:00-05:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Treasury Board Secretariat","address":"90 Elgin Street","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Megan Beretta","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Megan Beretta"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-01-31-236953859.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nPlease use the Albert Street entrance near Tim Hortons. One of our YOWCT team members will escort you up to Room 2067.\nAgenda for Tuesday, January 31:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm Network, eat* (food provided by you)\n6:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00pm - 7:20pm Project Pitches\n7:20-8:20pm Hackportion + Office Hours\n8:20pm-8:30pm Wrap Up","attendee_count":17,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/236953859/","slug":"2017-01-31-236953859"},{"id":"236953834","title":"Session #10: Ottawa Civic Tech","date":"2017-01-24T18:30:00-05:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Treasury Board Secretariat","address":"90 Elgin Street","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Megan Beretta","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Megan Beretta"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-01-24-236953834.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nPlease use the Albert Street entrance near Tim Hortons. One of our YOWCT team members will escort you up to Room 2067.\nAgenda for Tuesday, January 24:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm Network, eat* (food provided by you)\n6:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00pm - 7:20pm Project Pitches\n7:20-8:20pm Hackportion + Office Hours\n8:20pm-8:30pm Wrap Up","attendee_count":16,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/236953834/","slug":"2017-01-24-236953834"},{"id":"236855906","title":"Session #9: Ottawa Civic Tech","date":"2017-01-17T18:30:00-05:00","duration_minutes":120,"venue":{"name":"Treasury Board Secretariat","address":"90 Elgin Street","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Megan Beretta","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Megan Beretta","Dan Monafu"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-01-17-236855906.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday, January 17:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm Network, eat* (food provided by you)\n6:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00pm - 7:20pm Project Pitches\n7:20-8:20pm Hackportion + Office Hours\n8:20pm-8:30pm Wrap Up","attendee_count":13,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/236855906/","slug":"2017-01-17-236855906"},{"id":"236556470","title":"Session #8: Ottawa Civic Tech","date":"2017-01-10T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Treasury Board Secretariat","address":"90 Elgin Street","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Alessandro Alasia","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Megan Beretta","Dan Monafu"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2017-01-10-236556470.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday, January 10:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm Network, eat* (food provided by you)\n6:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00pm - 7:20pm Guest speaker: Alessandro Alasia, Chief of the Data Exploration and Integration Lab at Statistics Canada\n7:20pm - 7:30pm Q&A\n7:30pm - 7:50pm Project updates\n7:50pm - 8:20pm Breakout project group discussions\n8:20pm - 8:30pm Close\nSpeaker Details: In the Spring of 2016, Statistics Canada initiated a pilot project aimed at understanding the potential of data crowdsourcing for statistical purposes. The project makes use of OpenStreetMap (OSM) as the open data platform and invites prospective contributors to volunteer georeferenced information on buildings. The pilot project focuses on the Ottawa-Gatineau region but other regions may be added to the project in the future. This seminar will outline some of the preliminary results from the pilot, the lessons learnt so far, as well as the next steps in the implementation of this project.\nFor more information: http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/statcan-wants-your-help-to-test-the-power-of-crowdsourcing-in-ottawa","attendee_count":27,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/236556470/","slug":"2017-01-10-236556470"},{"id":"235267446","title":"Session #7: Ottawa Civic Tech - Special Session + Holiday Social!","date":"2016-12-13T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"71 Bank St. 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"James Chan","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2016-12-13-235267446.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nThis Tuesday, we have a special guest - Chris from DemocracyKit (http://www.democracykit.org/)! Although this should be a regular hacknight, it's also our final YOWCT meeting of 2016, so it'll be a shortened meetup with a guest speaker, immediately followed by a social mixer at a pub.\nAgenda for Tuesday December 13th:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm Network, eat (food provided by you)\n6:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00pm - 7:30pm Presentation from DemocracyKit + Q&A\n7:30pm - ? Holiday social mixer at a nearby pub (suggestions welcome!)","attendee_count":30,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/235267446/","slug":"2016-12-13-235267446"},{"id":"235267269","title":"Session #6: Ottawa Civic Tech (Speaker Night)","date":"2016-12-06T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"71 Bank St. 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"James Chan","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2016-12-06-235267269.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday December 6th:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm Network, eat* (food provided by you)\n6:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00pm - 7:20pm Guest speaker\n7:20pm - 7:30pm Q&A\n7:30pm - 7:50pm Project updates\n7:50pm - 8:20pm Breakout project group discussions\n8:20pm - 8:30pm Close\nThe featured presenter this month will be Ryan Androsoff (https://twitter.com/RyanAndrosoff) from the Government of Canada's Treasury Board Secretariat. Ryan will present on digital government, and run a special breakout group for further discussion.\nWe'll also have special guests from the Ontario Digital Government team (https://www.meetup.com/DigitalGovernment/), as part of their monthly “Office Hours” where they meet with the public and hear your thoughts on how to transform government for the digital age.\nLe présentateur de cette semaine sera Ryan Androsoff (https://twitter.com/RyanAndrosoff) de la Direction du dirigeant principal de l'information au Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor du Canada. Ryan donnera une présentation sur le gouvernement numérique et facilitera une réunion spéciale en petits groupes afin que nous puissions en discuter davantage.\nNous aurons également des représentants de l'équipe du gouvernement numérique de l'Ontario (https://www.meetup.com/DigitalGovernment/) en fonction de leurs «heures de bureau» mensuelles, où ils rencontrent le public et écoutent vos idées pour comment transformer le gouvernement pour l'ère numérique.\n*Food will not be provided / organized, but some suggestions are: Bread and Sons (195 Bank St), Rice and Roll (234 Queen St), and Roast n Brew (83 Bank St)\n**If you arrive after 7pm and the front door is locked, please call 613-680-3506 and someone will come down!\nOfficials from the Chief Information Officer Branch of the Government of Canada’s Treasury Board Secretariat are engaging with stakeholders across Canada on the topic of Digital Government. These discussions are an opportunity to exchange ideas and suggestions to shape a ‘made in Canada’ approach to digital government as they work to improve how digital services are delivered to citizens. The discussions will touch several major themes, including:\n– Organizing to deliver digital government, and what we can learn from other jurisdictions and organizations\n– Digital talent in government, and how we can bring in world-class digital expertise\n– Digital service design and delivery, and how to build services from a user-centred perspective\n– Setting the foundations for digital government capacity, building on the federal government’s IT Strategic Plan and Cloud Adoption Strategy\nLes fonctionnaires de la Direction du dirigeant principal de l’information du Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor du gouvernement du Canada mobilisent les principaux intervenants des quatre coins du pays sur le sujet du gouvernement numérique. Ces discussions représentent une occasion d’échanger vos idées et de faire des suggestions afin de forger une approche « fabriquée au Canada » en matière de gouvernement numérique, de même que de proposer une façon d’améliorer la prestation des services numériques à l’endroit des citoyens. Ces discussions aborderont plusieurs thèmes majeurs, y compris :\n– Organisation en vue du déploiement du gouvernement numérique, et ce que nous pouvons apprendre de l’expérience acquise par d’autres organisations et administrations gouvernementales.\n– Talent numérique au sein du gouvernement, et comment nous pouvons attirer des compétences spécialisées de classe mondiale.\n– Conception et mise en œuvre de services numériques, et comment élaborer des services du point de vue de l’utilisateur.\n– Établissement des bases adéquates pour assurer la capacité du gouvernement numérique, et comment miser sur le Plan stratégique de la technologie de l’information et sur la Stratégie d’adoption de l’informatique en nuage du gouvernement du Canada.","attendee_count":64,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/235267269/","slug":"2016-12-06-235267269"},{"id":"235267187","title":"Session #5: Ottawa Civic Tech","date":"2016-11-29T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"71 Bank St. 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"James Chan","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2016-11-29-235267187.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday November 29th:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm Network, eat* (food provided by you)\n6:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00pm - 8:20pm Hackportion + office hours**\n8:20pm - 8:30pm Evening recap/close\nDrinks afterwards TBA (optional)\n*Food will not be provided / organized, but some suggestions are: Bread and Sons (195 Bank St), Rice and Roll (234 Queen St), and Roast n Brew (83 Bank St)\n**Organizers set aside time to participate in office hours for anyone who wishes to get feedback, advice, or user testing for a 30 minute slot over the night if there is not a group already to work with\n***If you arrive after 7pm and the front door is locked, please call 613-680-3506 and someone will come down!","attendee_count":13,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/235267187/","slug":"2016-11-29-235267187"},{"id":"235267172","title":"Session #4: Ottawa Civic Tech","date":"2016-11-22T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"71 Bank St. 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"James Chan","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2016-11-22-235267172.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with a presentation from a guest speaker and project updates/outlook for the month; the rest of the month will be focused on \"hacking\" (working on our projects to build civic good).\nAgenda for Tuesday November 22nd:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm Network, eat* (food provided by you)\n6:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00pm - 8:20pm Hackportion + office hours**\n8:20pm - 8:30pm Evening recap/close\nDrinks afterwards TBA (optional)\n*Food will not be provided / organized, but some suggestions are: Bread and Sons (195 Bank St), Rice and Roll (234 Queen St), and Roast n Brew (83 Bank St)\n**Organizers set aside time to participate in office hours for anyone who wishes to get feedback, advice, or user testing for a 30 minute slot over the night if there is not a group already to work with\n***If you arrive after 7pm and the front door is locked, please call 613-680-3506 and someone will come down!","attendee_count":16,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/235267172/","slug":"2016-11-22-235267172"},{"id":"235267151","title":"Session #3: Ottawa Civic Tech","date":"2016-11-15T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"71 Bank St. 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"James Chan","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2016-11-15-235267151.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with presentations and the outlook for the month, subsequent weeks of the month will be focused on hacking.\nAgenda for Tuesday November 15th:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm Network, eat* (food provided by you)\n6:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros + Project Plan for the Month\n7:00pm - 8:20pm Hackportion + office hours**\n8:20pm - 8:30pm Evening recap/close\nDrinks afterwards TBA (optional)\n*Food will not be provided / organized, but some suggestions are: Bread and Sons (195 Bank St), Rice and Roll (234 Queen St), and Roast n Brew (83 Bank St)\n**Organizers set aside time to participate in office hours for anyone who wishes to get feedback, advice, or user testing for a 30 minute slot over the night if there is not a group already to work with","attendee_count":10,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/235267151/","slug":"2016-11-15-235267151"},{"id":"235267139","title":"Session #2: Ottawa Civic Tech","date":"2016-11-08T18:00:00-05:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"71 Bank St. 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"James Chan","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2016-11-08-235267139.jpeg","description_markdown":"We meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with presentations and the outlook for the month, subsequent weeks of the month will be focused on hacking.\nAgenda for Tuesday November 8th:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm Network, eat* (food provided by you)\n6:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros + Project Plan for the Month\n7:00pm - 8:20pm Hackportion + office hours**\n8:20pm - 8:30pm Evening recap/close\nDrinks afterwards TBA (optional)\n*Food will not be provided / organized, but some suggestions are: Bread and Sons (195 Bank St), Rice and Roll (234 Queen St), and Roast n Brew (83 Bank St)\n**Organizers set aside time to participate in office hours for anyone who wishes to get feedback, advice, or user testing for a 30 minute slot over the night if there is not a group already to work with","attendee_count":18,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/235267139/","slug":"2016-11-08-235267139"},{"id":"235110294","title":"Session #1: Launching Ottawa Civic Tech","date":"2016-11-01T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"71 Bank St. 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Elizabeth Dubois","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["James Chan","Dan Monafu"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2016-11-01-235110294.jpeg","description_markdown":"After a summer and fall of discussion, hacking, and civic engagement, we are excited to launch YOWCT and its new format on November 1st. We will meet weekly on Tuesdays: the first night of the month kicks off with presentations and the outlook for the month, subsequent weeks of the month will be focused on hacking.\nAgenda for Tuesday November 1st:\n6:00pm - 6:30pm Network, eat* (food provided by you)\n6:30pm - 7:00pm Welcome + Intros\n7:00pm - 7:20pm Speaker: Elizabeth Dubois, Professor at uOttawa\n7:20pm - 7:30pm Q&A\n7:30pm - 8:20pm Beta recap, pitches and focus for upcoming month\n8:20pm - 8:30pm Evening recap/close\nDrinks afterwards TBA (optional)\n*Food will not be provided / organized, but some suggestions are: Bread and Sons (195 Bank St), Rice and Roll (234 Queen St), and Roast n Brew (83 Bank St)","attendee_count":28,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/235110294/","slug":"2016-11-01-235110294"},{"id":"234349703","title":"YOWCT Session #11 with Project Updates","date":"2016-09-27T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"71 Bank St. 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Project Updates","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2016-09-27-234349703.jpeg","description_markdown":"Session #11 - no speaker this week - focusing on project updates.\nTo order food + see the full agenda, see google doc link below:\nhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1WxitCgs9bp0-DCCeMwjwc2qCTdnoL297eqsAzyIEhes/edit","attendee_count":4,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/234349703/","slug":"2016-09-27-234349703"},{"id":"232597545","title":"YOWCT Pilot Session #10 with Gabe Sawhney","date":"2016-09-20T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Breather","address":"78 George Street, Suite 202","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Gabe Sawhney","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Dan Monafu","Laine Johnson","James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2016-09-20-232597545.jpeg","description_markdown":"Session #10, featuring Gabe Sawhney, Executive Director, Urban+Digital, Civic Tech Toronto co-founder. To order food + see the full agenda, see google doc link below:\nhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/19IBTZEYIh_L2w0cbGYUGCkluDkKwvNSDBuctQC_naP0/edit?usp=sharing","attendee_count":14,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/232597545/","slug":"2016-09-20-232597545"},{"id":"232597538","title":"YOWCT Pilot Session #9 with Luisa Ji (Milieu)","date":"2016-09-13T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Soshal","address":"119 Ross Ave","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Luisa Ji","speaker_org":"Milieu","hosts":["Laine Johnson"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2016-09-13-232597538.jpeg","description_markdown":"Session #9, featuring Luisa Ji, President and co-founder of Milieu (https://www.milieu.io/).\nTo order food + see the agenda, see google doc link below:\nhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1F8JwgPrpb57vpxdyUldigjlE28JFbLFvgY2NjnVp4X4/edit","attendee_count":10,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/232597538/","slug":"2016-09-13-232597538"},{"id":"232597521","title":"YOWCT Pilot Session #8 with Rob Giggey","date":"2016-09-06T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"71 Bank St. 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Rob Giggey","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2016-09-06-232597521.jpeg","description_markdown":"Guest speaker: Rob Giggey, Open Data Manager, City of Ottawa\nFor agenda, see this google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j1eeeTQlcthL0u5EA8ogeUcMYMg2vXc8Rl8sGIzWxLk/edit","attendee_count":9,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/232597521/","slug":"2016-09-06-232597521"},{"id":"232597489","title":"YOWCT Pilot Session #7 with Jeremy Waiser","date":"2016-08-30T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Open Concept","address":"571 Somerset St.","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Jeremy Waiser","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["mike gifford"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2016-08-30-232597489.jpeg","description_markdown":"To see the agenda and to add your name to the food order for Tuesday, see link to google drive below:\nhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1gIxQTeVuw9832Z0j0HcpXGBJHhoDuS_nDRO6KWHaS9M/edit","attendee_count":8,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/232597489/","slug":"2016-08-30-232597489"},{"id":"232597474","title":"YOWCT Pilot Session #6 with Joyce Halladay","date":"2016-08-23T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Open Concept","address":"571 Somerset St.","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Joyce Halladay","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["mike gifford"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2016-08-23-232597474.jpeg","description_markdown":"Featuring guest speaker Joyce Halladay, Tiny House project.\nView the agenda and put in your food order here: http://tinyurl.com/zbmrqy2","attendee_count":7,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/232597474/","slug":"2016-08-23-232597474"},{"id":"232597461","title":"YOWCT Pilot Session #5 with Chayanika Lutes","date":"2016-08-16T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"PCO Central Innovation Hub","address":"90 Sparks St., 8th floor, Unit #820","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Chayanika Lutes","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Nisa"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2016-08-16-232597461.jpeg","description_markdown":"Featuring guest speaker Chayanika Lutes, Ottawa Insights (http://www.ottawainsights.ca/), Senior Associate, Community Foundations of Ottawa.\nView the agenda and put in your food order here: http://ow.ly/Qrbs303fkNa\nYOWCT Pilot Session #5\nLocation: PCO Central Innovation Hub, 90 Sparks (Sparks/Metcalfe), 8th floor, Unit #820.\nPlease note that the floors become inaccessible to the public after 6pm, so if you are coming late, text Dan at 613 899 1867 and we’ll send somebody down for you. Free wifi; access to projector. Reminder to bring your laptops for the hackportion.\nFood: Put your orders on this sheet (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DcUraFYEhIyPwAYlarxbTm6ERrBvEn9cy_HZgDwLiqw/edit) by 5:00pm on Tuesday for food from Scone Witch\nTime: gathering at 6:00pm - we’ll start the formal part of the evening at 6:30pm; we will end around 8:30pm.\nProposed agenda\n1) Eating + networking | All | 6:00-6:20pm\n2) Welcome & Introductions | All | 6:20-6:40pm\n3) Guest speaker | Chayanika Lutes (Ottawa Insights) | 6:40-7:00pm •Plus 5 minutes Q/A\nBREAK 7:00-7:10pm\n4) Hackportion\n4A)Civic Tech ‘101’ (Dan)\nStream A: New folks 7:10-8:30pm\nStream B: Pitch session\nStream B: All else | 7:10-7:20pm\nHacknight Stream B: | All else | 7:20-8:30pm","attendee_count":12,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/232597461/","slug":"2016-08-16-232597461"},{"id":"232597449","title":"YOWCT Pilot Session #4 with Suneeta Millington","date":"2016-08-09T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Impact Hub Ottawa","address":"71 Bank St. 6th Floor","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Suneeta Millington","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["James Chan"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2016-08-09-232597449.jpeg","description_markdown":"Featuring guest speaker Suneeta Millington, co-founder of Prime Minister's Row (https://pmr-apm.ca/).\nView the agenda and put in your food order here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wL8nzxVhTXwKUCvFYxi8Euas1OPtIh0a_as9KPVST1w/edit?usp=sharing","attendee_count":9,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/232597449/","slug":"2016-08-09-232597449"},{"id":"232597442","title":"YOWCT Pilot Session #3","date":"2016-08-02T18:00:00-04:00","duration_minutes":150,"venue":{"name":"Smoque Shack, upstairs","address":"129 York St.","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Laine Johnson","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Laine Johnson"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2016-08-02-232597442.jpeg","description_markdown":"Please note the new time we've agreed to - 6:00pm start to 8:30pm end.\nEditable meeting details + agenda coming soon","attendee_count":5,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/232597442/","slug":"2016-08-02-232597442"},{"id":"232597434","title":"YOWCT Pilot Session #2","date":"2016-07-26T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":180,"venue":{"name":"Ottawa Main Library","address":"120 Metcalfe St","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Megan Beretta","speaker_org":null,"hosts":[],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2016-07-26-232597434.jpeg","description_markdown":"This document is available for editing/changes in google drive here:\nhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/18aJewDAmYTSGFzzbh5HVo64Lh06sT1EkbYNRj3WR8ZQ/edit\nYOWCT Pilot Session #2\nLocation: Ottawa Public Library (Main); 120 Metcalfe Street, Room B125. Room can be accessed without escort. Please note that we have the meeting room from 6:30-8:30pm (the branch closes at 9pm and we need to return the room to its original order).\nTime: come anytime after 6:30pm - we’ll start the formal part of the evening at 7:00pm; we will end around 8:30pm this time around.\nFood: Place your food orders in this google doc (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lIDyI-VtLteK6gwAfaLHCyQYr5VDuGdF0qNxYw38dLc/edit)by Tuesday, July 26 at 5:00pm. Derek will then pick up your order and bring it to you for 6:30pm.\nProposed agenda\n1) Eating + networking All 6:30-7:00pm\n1) Welcome & Introductions All 7:05-7:20pm\n2) Guest speaker Megan Beretta on youth engagement / Civix 7:20-7:40pm\n•5 mins Q/A after the talk\n3) Hackportion\n3A) Civic Tech ‘101’ (Dan) Stream A: New folks 7:40-8:30pm\n3B) Pitch session Stream B: All else 7:40-7:50pm\nHacknight Stream B: All else 7:50-8:30pm","attendee_count":8,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/232597434/","slug":"2016-07-26-232597434"},{"id":"232518842","title":"YOWCT Pilot Session #1","date":"2016-07-19T18:30:00-04:00","duration_minutes":165,"venue":{"name":"PCO Central Innovation Hub","address":"90 Sparks St., 8th floor, Unit #820","city":"Ottawa","is_online":false},"speaker":"Ryan Androsoff","speaker_org":null,"hosts":["Dan Monafu"],"image_url":"https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/e/b/b/highres_485564731.jpeg","image":"/assets/images/events/2016-07-19-232518842.jpeg","description_markdown":"Editable meeting details + agenda are available on the Drive (link below). Feel free to comment/edit/modify as you see fit.\nhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hx_EdSQp41nrSOjHjJjvqJiqOeIklMEsNBvF_FNIYG4/edit?usp=sharing\nIn case you don't get to the Drive document in time, details are also below:\nYOWCT Pilot Session #1\nLocation: PCO Central Innovation Hub, 90 Sparks (Sparks/Metcalfe), 8th floor, Unit #820.\nPlease note that the floors become inaccessible to the public after 6pm, so we’ll have one of us waiting for you downstairs when you get into the building to activate the elevators.\nTime: come anytime after 6:30pm - we’ll start the formal part of the evening at 7:00pm; we will end by 9:15pm at the latest.\nShould you eat beforehand? Yes. We can quickly discuss how we want to tackle food when we meet (e.g. uber eats, brown bag), but for this initial session, we won’t be providing food. However, if you want to bring some snacks to share, please do!\nProposed agenda (feel free to modify/edit/comment)\nWelcome Dan 10 mins\nInitial vision & possibilities\nIntroductions All 20 minutes\nQ to answer: who are you? why you are here?\nGuest speaker Ryan Androsoff on digital government 15 minutes\n5-10 mins Q/A after the talk\nForming conversation Dan (moderator) 50 minutes\nCivic Tech ‘101’ (adapted from C.T. TO)\nRoundtable discussion:\nQ to answer: name one thing you want this group to be and do (i.e. what are you excited for?)\nQ to answer: name one thing don't you want this group to be and do (i.e. what should we avoid?)\nNote: we’ll need a note taker for this portion\nDo part All 30 minutes\nRoundtable discussion:\nQ to answer: what are you working on right now? What do you need to make it happen? (access to resources, skills, people)","attendee_count":9,"meetup_url":"https://www.meetup.com/yow_ct/events/232518842/","slug":"2016-07-19-232518842"}]