Jason Hibbets

Now in its seventh year, CityCamp NC, part of NC Open Pass, is proof that the civic tech and open government scene in the Triangle is alive and vibrant. CityCamp NC is an annual civic tech event that brings citizens, government change agents, and businesses together to openly innovate and improve our communities. The event begins Thursday evening at 5:30, Sept. 28 with the first ever, mega lighting talk and continues with 5-minute lightning talks and networking opportunities. Friday, Sept.29, brings keynote speakers, a public-private sector Smart Cities panel discussion, and unconference sessions–where participants create the agenda. Saturday, Sept....

Editor’s note: Jason Hibbets is CityCamp NC Co-chair and NC Datapalooza organizer. RALEIGH, N.C. – The NC Datapalooza finale had three teams competing for $5,500 worth of prize money. The final pitches for North Carolina’s open data competition happened mid-November at Red Hat Annex in downtown Raleigh, and the teams were well-prepared to compete for the prize money. The NC Datapalooza finale (Read more at https://wraltechwire.com/3-open-data-teams-competing-for-nc-datapalooza-prizes/16216208/ ) concluded the first NC Open Pass, a single ticket that combines access to the premier open source, open government, open data, and other innovative events around the Triangle and beyond. In 2016,...

Ten teams pitched open data project ideas at NC DataJam this past weekend as part of the CityCamp NC hackathon for a $1,000 first-place prize and a $500 award for best use of ESRI technology. Ideas ranged from improving accessibility to restaurant health violation information to getting citizens easy access to candidate details and voting information. Last year’s winners, 11-year old Gavin Clark and father Will Clark, were back in action with a project called Kids Transit that would help students organize walking groups to school along the safest and most efficient route. [Esri is an international supplier of...

Editor’s note: CityCamp NC will host a CIO panel, the Code for America founder and also put on a “code sprint” as well as the annual NC DataJam competition at its annual conference starting Thursday. Jason Hibbets, CityCamp NC co-chair, offers a preview. RALEIGH, N.C. – CityCamp NC, an event bringing citizens, government, and businesses together to openly innovate on next generation open source solutions for communities, is happening this week on September 22-24, 2016. CityCamp NC is part of NC Open Pass and will take place in downtown Raleigh at Nash Hall, a gathering space focused on helping...

Editor’s note: Jason Hibbets, a project manager at Red Hat and the lead administrator for opensource.com, is also one of the organizers and leaders of CityCamp NC. He offers this recap of last weekend’s latest CityCamp where a 10-year-old took home two top prizes. Winners of CityCampNC competition and event recap It was probably the best CityCamp event we’ve hosted in Raleigh, NC. The line-up of speakers, participants, and hackathon projects all came together for the 2015 version of CityCamp NC. The team competitions were oozing with open data and tackling real challenges facing our community. But one team...