Civichacking.js: Helping Your Community Using JavaScript

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Builds a React app called Budget Party (React) that later wins a Mozilla Internet Health prize. Prototypes a housing app with WordPress API + Meteor + React, fails to get sustained government meetings (about nine out of ten officials decline), shrinks to five active contributors, and earns a mayoral sign‑off despite not winning the hackathon. During Harvey teams ship rapid apps — Harvey needs — SMS/Twitter/maps — face machine/setup barriers, favor CRA and WordPress for speed, and rely on pair programming and simple chat boxes that actually help people.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:05Carolines Background
3. 2:04Crimson Vista
4. 2:23What is Civic Hacking
5. 3:00Who are Civic Hackers
6. 3:32What did I get involved in
7. 4:33Open Data
8. 5:05Open Source
9. 5:37Diversity
10. 6:24Budget Party
11. 7:07Different Tools
12. 7:51Mentorship
13. 8:43WordPress
14. 9:30Keys
15. 9:58Team breakdown
16. 10:26Finding your role
17. 11:38Fixing bugs
18. 12:35Back home
19. 12:50Mozilla Internet Health Prize
20. 13:03Houston City Hackathon
21. 13:52Housing Choice
22. 14:19Building an App
23. 14:50Gameplan
24. 15:17Caseworkers
25. 15:52Funding
26. 17:22Slack
27. 18:13Machines Matter
28. 19:27Development Environments
29. 20:04Pair Programming
30. 20:25Coding Blind
31. 21:00Its okay to fail
32. 21:58Hurricane Armor
33. 22:35Homelink
34. 23:00Trust Exercise
35. 24:35Sources of Data
36. 24:50Hurricane Maria
37. 25:22Create Negative
38. 25:37FEMA
39. 26:05CivicHacking
40. 26:42Meaningful Work
41. 27:10Get Involved
42. 27:21Join Your Local Brigade
43. 27:33Find Your Brigade
44. 27:46Plan B
45. 28:07Conclusion

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