Tropo is thrilled to be sponsoring the Summer of Smart program in the City of San Francisco.
“Sumer of Smart” is a three month long series of events and discussions centered around urban innovation – it will bring together people from many different disciplines to work on strategies and applications to benefit those that live in, work in and visit the City of San Francisco.
This series of events began recently with a forum bringing together Mayoral candidates in San Francisco at the Pier 38 offices of Automattic, followed by CityCamp San Francisco. We were delighted to be a part of these events, and are just as excited to help support the Summer of Smart.
Our primary interest is – not surprisingly – hacking and app building! Our platforms and APIs are ideal for building things that can make urban environments easier to navigate, to live in and to visit.
A great example of the awesome apps that you can build with Tropo can be seen by looking at the results of the recently concluded Applications for Good competition – one of the winners (SNAPFresh) was built using the Tropo platform.
This innovative and very useful application lets anyone quickly and easily find the location of retailers that accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistace Program (SNAP) cards in the Bay Area by sending a text message.
It is these kinds of innovative applications we hope to foster by sponsoring the Summer of Smart.
If you are interested in attending one of te Summer of Smart events, you can head on over to their site and find one that matches your interest. You can also submit ideas for Summer of Smart on the website, or by tweeting with the hashtag #SoSIdeas.
We can’t wait to see all of the great ideas and new applications that come out of this summer-log series of events!
Join us Friday January 27th for our Tropo Drinkup in San Francisco at our SOMA headquarters office and enjoy some complimentary drinks while entertained by future rockstars letting loose on our piano and guitars.
