Weekly Civic Hack Night w/ Guest Speaker Josh Staples + the Presidential Debate

Interested in helping San Francisco? You have found the right place! 

Join neighbors, government employees, designers, coders, students and more! Our weekly hack night is focused on civic tech and making government services better in San Francisco. We hack/build and learn together every Wednesday evening.

• Contribute to the betterment of San Francisco

• Build your own portfolio of work or work on someone else's cool project

• Meet new (and different!) people

Interested in our current projects?

This week

In support of this upcoming presidential election, we will be streaming the 3rd presidential debate from 6:00 - 7:30 with opening remarks and our guest presentation immediately following. Members will be welcome to hack during this time in lieu of the debate in the open area.

Guest Speaker - Josh Staples (Twilio)

Josh will give a presenation on SF Underground, his visualization and VR project using data on noise levels in BART. Josh wil also speak on ways to use Twilio's Authy API to vet users for data collection.

@cubicleDowns, - Security Wonk, JavaScript Lover, 3D Artist, Software Architect 
https://www.authy.com/blog/people-of-authy-josh-staples/

Medium article about BART:
https://medium.com/@cubicleDowns/do-you-ride-bart-i-do-daily-8778a2e6649c#.rkb4j6bfw

https://github.com/cubicleDowns/SF-Underground

m.morlocksf.com is the mobile experience site for SF Underground.

Schedule

6:00p doors open, socialize and eat dinner, start streaming the 3rd presidential debate

7:30p welcome remarks, presentation by Josh Staples, and project pitches

8:00p start hacking or stay for new member orientation

9:00p keep on hacking

10:00p doors close and lights out.

Check out our website. Read/contribute to our code. Communicate via our slack team (or IRC Freenode #sfbrigade). 

If you have questions, please reach out over Slack, contact the organizers via meetup, or drop by on Wednesday evening.