Hack Omaha

  • Q&A: Hack Omaha organizer shares why hackers should attend third event

    Calling all Nebraska hackers—the third iteration of Hack Omaha, a three-day public service-themed hackathon, is just around the corner. Organizers hosted the inaugural Hack Omaha last April and have continued to hone the event over the last year and a half …

  • Search engine for city council agendas wins second Hack Omaha

    Better Agendas, a search engine for Omaha City Council agendas, won the programming competition Hack Omaha Saturday on the campus of Metropolitan Community College. “Our team focused on making Omaha’s city council agendas more usable,” Better Agenda’s Matt Steele said in an email interview Monday. “The agendas currently are stored in PDF format, which doesn’t…

  • Hack Omaha provides opportunity to transform state, local government

    (Guest post by Heath Mello.) As local and state governments continue to wrestle with a wide range of ongoing policy challenges, one issue continues to stand out as an opportunity to help solve many problems with a simple stroke of the keyboard: releasing usable government data. Transparency in government continues to be an ongoing issue…

  • Data competition Hack Omaha returns with one-day format Oct. 13

    Hack Omaha, a programming competition focused on the use of government data, returns Oct. 13 with a new format and cast of supporting organizations. First held over a weekend in April, Hack Omaha is now a 12-hour hackathon pitting teams against each other to build an app using one of three government data sets. The…

  • From crimes to clean plates, the nine data projects of Hack Omaha (Video)

    Hack Omaha, a programming competition, in the style of Startup Weekend, that required teams to build their projects using datasets of public government information, wrapped up Sunday night in the Omaha World-Herald’s downtown building. The World-Herald, the producer and host of the competition, supplied datasets to teams and, in the spirit of the event, required…

  • Food Fight gamifies restaurant ratings, wins Hack Omaha (Video)

    Omaha Food Fight, an app that challenges users to guess the cleanliness of local food establishments, won first place over the weekend at the inaugural Hack Omaha, a programming competition, in the style of Startup Weekend, that required teams to base their projects on datasets of public government information. The event, produced and hosted by…

  • The nine teams of Hack Omaha, a public data competition

    Hack Omaha, a weekend programming competition during which participants are challenged to turn a local dataset of public government information into something useful, is off and running with more than 50 developers, designers, journalists and civic instigators gathered in the Omaha World-Herald building’s first and second floors. The inaugural event kicked off Friday …

  • Events: Prometheus Awards, i2iowa, SPN Meetup, Hack Omaha and more

    Every Monday, look for our events post to keep you in the loop on the happenings of the week. From meetups and conferences to workshops and pitch sessions, if it’s happening in the Silicon Prairie, you’ll find it here. For more, visit our events page for a calendar of upcoming events from us and others…

  • Q&A: Hack Omaha organizer on data, design and a 125-year-old newspaper

    The Omaha World-Herald, Nebraska’s oldest and most-read newspaper, is doing something innovative. But don’t go looking for it in the World-Herald’s print product or on its website. Instead, to see it, you’ll need to visit the World-Herald’s offices in downtown Omaha later this month. From April 13-15, the World-Herald will host Hack Omaha, the area’s…

  • Events: [L5] Pint Night, Startup Job Crawl and Design+Tech

    Every Monday, look for our events post to keep you in the loop on the happenings of the week. From meetups and conferences to workshops and pitch sessions, if it’s happening in the Silicon Prairie, you’ll find it here. For more, visit our events page for a calendar of upcoming events from us and others…