The National Day of Civic Hacking – Columbus Ga Hackathon was very engaging.

I haven’t been around that many fellow techies since the last time I went to Linux group meets in Warner Robins (which is how I met Jeff Hatfield, Reginal Cross and others). Reminds me that I still need to learn Python. And I met many folks at the Hackathon, including Gil Strickland, Frank Braski, Wayne Summers, Patrick Smith, Brian Bolton, Geoffrey Gwdub Shoultz, Lucas Shaffer, Bryce Jackson, Fred Johnson, Savannah Sosa and Walker Randolph Smith.

Congrats to Patrick, Brian and Geoffrey for winning the competition, and I was really impressed by their app! It would definitely help with political literacy in Columbus.

I, however, came into the competition just out of curiosity, but I came out with a presentation which called for an overhaul of the city’s web infrastructure to an FOSS platform in order to facilitate transparency for residents. I was surprised that my presentation was so well-received. And after that, I went with Lucas and the winners of the competition to The Cannon Brew Pub.

Thank you, Lucas, for covering us. Anyway, an eventful two days to mark the beginning of summer 2014.