Approximately 20 passionate programmers participated in Tropo and Socrata‘s open government 24-hour Tinkerstorm (or Hack-a-thon) in conjunction with Chris Pirillo‘s GnomeDex 2010.  We are currently at the half-way point of the competition.  Bill Schrier (Seattle’s CTO) stopped by to check on the status of the projects and provide additional inspiration.  Max Ogden and Reid Beels flew in from Portland, Oregon and Mark Silverberg flew in from Washington, DC just to participate in our Tinkerstorm!

One theme that I picked up on quickly from the Tinkerstorm was the love of Socrata’s data API.  Most of Seattle’s available data can be access through their site at http://data.seattle.gov.  The organizers were able to keep the coffee fresh and provide an awesome dinner and breakfast buffets, and plenty of idea people offering suggestions and feedback throughout the night!

Tim from Amazon Web Services stopped by to provide AWS discount codes to assistance with the deployment.  Even the SmartCups from GnomeDex came handy.  Everyone knows how much programmers love and need caffeine in events like this one!

Aaron and Amber also stopped by from GeoLoqi.  Geoloqi is a private, real-time mobile and web platform for securely sharing location data, with features such as Geonotes, proximal notification, and sharing real-time GPS maps with friends.

Sunday morning has rolled around and the looming 5PM event deadline is approaching too much quickly.  Willow Bl00 was now joined us to hack on her own project.

Here are a few fun pictures from last night’s event:

More news at 5 regarding prizes!

Related posts:

1. Build an Open Government app at Gnomedex and win prizes
2. Unlocking Government Data with Tropo and Open Source Software
3. Hacking Open Government in Philadelphia
4. Tropo is Easy!
5. Announcing the GnomeDex10 Open Government Hackathon

Tags: gnomedex, opengov, socrata, tinkerstorm, Tropo

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