git init Berlin
summary
CityLAB Berlin runs a public innovation lab funded by the Berlin Senate Chancellery and hosts the github.com/berlin organization as a planned hub for city-funded code. Work includes an open budget explorer built from the city’s two‑year Excel budget (about 46 lines), a crisis‑help site indexing 200 institutions, and prototypes tested in Bürgerämter; workflows are open source, agile, and meant to attract paid and volunteer contributors via the fourth developers Meetup.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:53About City Lab Berlin
- 4:01Prototypes and service design
- 10:04GitHub Berlin initiative
- 17:08Engaging open source community
- 25:55Q&A with the audience
- 29:53Closing and next steps
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