The first CityCamp, in January 2010 was a memorable event for a bunch of reasons. It simultaneously marked the birth of several civic technology initiatives — the CityCamp unconference series itself, which has grown like gangbusters since then, Code for America, which has since just finished its first year and is growing like mad, and of course Civic Commons, which started as a partnership between Code for America and OpenPlans at that very CityCamp.
Despite all the delicious awesomeness that went down that cold, rainy, snowy weekend, there’s one thing that has stuck w/ me more than anything else.
As folks who’ve been to unconferences know, the traditional opening activity is to pass the mic around the room and have each person introduce themselves and say exactly three words that describe them. At this CityCamp, I remember that my words were “making” “cities” “easiertouse” (so I was cheating a bit, obv - I’m kind of hit or miss w/ the three words).
The line that has stuck with me still from this
CityCamp was Phil Ashlock’s opening 3 words. Phil
said “Open” “Interoperable” “Cities”. Kind of a mouthful, and
perhaps a bit abstract if you don’t sit around every day thinking
about what “open” and “interoperable” mean in the context of
cities, like we do.
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