Open Nebraska

  • Coders aim to make public data useful at first Hack Lincoln weekend

    Coders aim to make public data useful at first Hack Lincoln weekend

    LINCOLN— Lincolnites with an eye toward making public data more useful will get a chance to work with a number of state and local data sets in October. Open Nebraska, a “civic hacking” group, is hosting its first weekend hackathon in Lincoln Oct. 17-19. Hack Lincoln begins Friday at 6 p.m. and continues through Sunday…

  • Interface, Open Nebraska partner for free half-day civic hacking workshop

    Those interested in using local government data to create tools to promote civic engagement have a good opportunity to experiment Saturday morning. Open Nebraska and Interface Web School have partnered for a half-day workshop in Omaha called “Introduction to Civic Hacking.”