Civic and Humanitarian Open Source

Timothy Duffy - BSidesRoc 2018 Who.

Timothy Duffy FPGA Designer Firmware Developer @arbiterofbits Embedded Developer https://github.com/thequbit Web Developer [email protected] Civic Hacker So … what’s a hacker? hack·er

/ˈhakər/ noun

1. a person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data. But seriously, what’s a hacker?

Wikipedia:

Hacker culture is an idea derived from a community of enthusiast computer programmers and systems designers in the 1960s around the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The concept expanded to the hobbyist home computing community, focusing on hardware in the late 1970s (e.g. the Computer Club) and on ( games, software cracking, the ) in the 1980s/1990s. So … what’s Open Source open-source o·pen-source adjective

1. denoting software for which the original is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. The culture of Openness

- Free and Open Source Software ( FOSS ) has always had a culture of Freedom and Openness. - Civic Hacking and Open Source culture fit well together

So what’s Civic Hacking? Civic Innovation ...

Alex Howard (@digiphile) helps define Civic Innovation as:

“... new idea or method that improves the lives of citizens, the functions of cities, the practice of citizenship, or the state of community affairs.”

Ref:

http://gov20.govfresh.com/defining-civic-innovation-definition-open-government/ … as implemented by Hackers.

Josh Tauberer (@JoshData) has an amazing chapter in his book “Open Government Data: The Book”:

“Often civic hacking involves the use of government data to make governments more accountable, but the goals of civic hacking are as diverse as those who might call themselves hackers.”

He continues:

“Civic hackers can be programmers, designers, data scientists, good communicators, civic organizers, entrepreneurs, government employees and anyone willing to get his or her hands dirty solving problems.” Hack the Planet Government!

Data Liberation

Data collating

Data Portals/Dashboards

Infographics

Storytelling Organizations that Civic Hack

Sunlight Foundation - https://sunlightfoundation.com/

Code for America - https://www.codeforamerica.org/

Code for X

18F - https://18f.gsa.gov/

Hacks/Hackers - https://hackshackers.com/

And many, many others all over the Country and Word. Hacks/Hackers

From the Hacks/Hackers website:

“The roots of Hacks/Hackers were planted in 2009, based on the interests of three people interested in the intersection of journalism and technology.”

Hacks/Hackers started locally in the Rochester Area on meetup.com in January of 2012, and quickly became very civic hacker focused. Some Civic Hacking projects ….

Motor City Mapping - https://motorcitymapping.org/

RHOK The Hood - http://citruspi.io/projects/rhok-the-hood/

RocReport - https://github.com/dkd903/RocReport-ios

Traffairious - https://github.com/hhroc/traffairious

YellR - http://hhroc.github.io/projects/yellr/

Monroe Minutes - https://github.com/thequbit/monroeminutes

MCSafetyFeed - http://mcsafetyfeed.org/incidents.php Motor City Mapping

Loveland Technologies - https://makeloveland.com/ RHoK The Hood

RHoK the Hood was done at a Random Hacks of Kindness event in 2013, and was written by citruspi and nolski - http://citruspi.io/projects/rhok-the-hood/ The website was a stop-gap from when a site with similar information was going to be taken down, and the new one was going to be available to the public.

http://www.cityofroches ter.gov/neighborhooddat amap/ RocReport

Written by Debjit Saha and Ricky Laishram at a HackUpstate event in 2014.

It served as a means to report things important to your community to legislators and government officials.

http://rickylaishram.com/2014/02/rocreport/ https://github.com/dkd903/RocReport-ios Traffairious 1/2

Traffairious was started by nolki and decause at a Hack Upstate event in 2013 - https://github.com/hhroc/traffairious

It came out of a paper titled “Not in my Schoolyard” and discussed the impact proximity of school years to major roadways has on health of children.

Traffairious pook public data, and mapped the location of schools with traffic volumes.

References: https://www.reddit.com/r/hackshackersroc/comments/1o7srm/research_background_and_sou rces_school_air/ Traffairious 2/2 YellR

Yellr was a hyper-local news and engagement website and app ecosystem that was funded via INN and WXXI.

It allowed for hyper-local news stories, giving citizens the power to discuss items that are important to their immediate community. WXXI would then take those discussions and turn them into stories. MonroeMinutes

Was written as a means to collect and index all meeting minutes within Monroe County, and allow them to be searchable in a single location.

Some cool tools ( that are freely available and open source ) came out of this project.

iddt - https://github.com/thequbit/iddt ( previously barkingowl )

yapot - https://github.com/thequbit/yapot

MonroeMinutes was the second place winner in the AT&T Civic App Challenge. https://rbj.net/2014/05/13/winners-chosen-for-2014-att-rochester-civic-app-challenge/ MCSafetyFeed

911 call collator. Provides a historical account of non-violent 911 calls in Monroe County.

http://mcsafetyfeed.org/ http://new.mcsafetyfeed.org/ Acknowledgments

Shout out to FOSS@MAGIC , the FOSSBox, and HHRoc for making me the Hacker I am today ( and the developer ).

And a massive thank you to all folks that continue to foster the culture of Open Source and FOSS.

FOSS@MAGIC: https://github.com/FOSSRIT Project Ideas

- NYS VADIR Data: - http://www.p12.nysed.gov/sss/ssae/schoolsafety/vadir/ - National Election Data: - https://github.com/openelections - Monroe County Election Information - pdf parsing problem - https://www.monroecounty.gov/etc/voter/ - Mapping Opioid Addiction Resources - Collection of information, tools, maps, etc. - Fire Hydrant Snow Clearing Tracker - Incentive based? Get local companies to donate gift cards for “points”? - Pothole Reporting - http://www.cityofrochester.gov/article.aspx?id=8589935141 Timothy Duffy

@arbiterofbits https://github.com/thequbit [email protected] http://timduffy.me/bsidesroc2018.pdf