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Web Experience Toolkit - CodeFest 2013

A modern technology for web components, the Web Experience Toolkit, had its second CodeFest.

The open source code and community are hosted on GitHub.

https://github.com/wet-boew/

Government of Canada employees have played a substantial leadership role in the creation of the toolkit, in its release on GitHub, and in growing the community.  It's a great example of government working in a modern way.

I've embedded links to the keynotes below, as well as a Storify of the event (I didn't attend, but I watched the keynotes on YouTube).

Event info at http://wet-boew.github.io/codefest2.0/

Keynote presentations

Ben Balter @BenBalter - http://ben.balter.com/open-sourcing-government/
https://github.com/benbalter/open-sourcing-government (repository for slides) - video from 14m43s http://youtu.be/E-AxzfaZQVc?t=14m43s to 1h13m

Raymond Camden @cfjedimaster -
https://github.com/cfjedimaster/CuttingEdgeHTML (repository for the slides) - video from 1h35m32s http://youtu.be/E-AxzfaZQVc?t=1h35m32s

Hillary Little @hilittle - http://www.hilarylittle.com/blog/2013/08/09/codefest-2013-keynote-2/ - video http://youtu.be/51hN1trnpXA

Previously:
January 11, 2013  open source in government - The Web Experience Toolkit

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Scott Tomlinson will present on "The Genesis of the Canadian Polar Data Network: An example of a collaborative network for data stewardship". Scott is the former Data Management Coordinator for the Canadian International Polar Year Program.

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two hackfests in Ottawa: Citizen Attache and CanLII

Tapping into Canada’s Foreign Aid Data

August 24th-25th, 2013

HUB Ottawa, 71 Bank Street

"The hackathon will bring together technologists, data analysts, and international development experts from across the sector to create useful products, insights and analysis of Canada’s international aid data."

You have to apply to attend, deadline for applications is August 8, 2013.

They are also soliciting project ideas.

Site: http://citizen-attache.github.io/

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CanLII law, government and open data conference and hackathon

September 13th-14th, 2013

University of Ottawa

"The first day of the event will be a series of speaker panels about different data sources and applications and the second day will be a hackathon with various datasets and the CanLII API."

Site: CanLII hackathon (hackerleague.org)

Twitter: @CanLII

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