Looking Back at the White House Hackathon
On February 22nd, we welcomed twenty one programmers and tech experts to the White House and invited them to spend the day working alongside seven members of our own development team. Their goal was simple: to build tools using the new API for We the People, the White House petitions system, and contribute example code to a software development kit (SDK). For nine hours, these two groups clustered around each other's laptops, solving problems, sharing ideas, sharing code, and asking questions. A week before the event, we gave the participants access to a private repository on GitHub so they could read documentation, introduce themselves, and
What the influencers are saying
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Justin Herman
Just the beginning MT @digiphile @WhiteHouse published its API standards on @GitHub http://t.co/MyrmQlXsEW Context: http://t.co/CMcKBc3BdE
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Kevin Curry
Looking Back at the White House Hackathon | The White House: http://t.co/jfKTbnnPPL @whitehouse
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Nigel Jacob
Looking Back at the White House Hackathon | The White House: http://t.co/HtCHQfsTiA @whitehouse
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The White House
See what happened when we invited 21 developers & tech experts to the first ever White House Hackathon: http://t.co/HHksjJYbGG #WHHackathon
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CGI Collab Gov
Looking Back at the White House Hackathon http://t.co/ZGmhZoMQBD
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Alex Howard
The @WhiteHouse published its Web API standards on @GitHub: http://t.co/lYUrUul77B Context: http://t.co/J5WnwydQJm #opendata
