Archive for Category: "Food+Tech Hackathon"

8 Simple Steps to Hackathon Epiphany

Up until a couple of weeks ago, the largest event I had ever organized were dinner parties for 10 in my apartment.  Then the Food+Tech Hackathon came along. With 12 days of lead time, a $100 budget from Gojee, and big aspirations, I joined Danielle Gould (founder of Food+tech Connect), Marc Alt (CEO of Opensourcecities),

Hacking For Social Good — Using Open Data to Make Sense of our Food System

Hacking For Social Good — Using Open Data to Make Sense of our Food System

It was 8:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning in Soho, the streets lay quiet and Broadway was not yet filled with shopping tourists. Though one floor above, at co-working space Soho Haven, there was a bustle of energy as developers, designers, statisticians, urban farmers, public officials, and researchers from across the city gathered for the

Initial Data Posting and the Food+Tech Hackathon

Initial Data Posting and the Food+Tech Hackathon

It’s been a while since I’ve worked on this site, but thanks to the Food+Tech Hackathon I’ve taken the time to really think about how the data and tools I’m building should evolve. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please feel free to email me at ewpatton [at] gmail [dot] com so we

Open Data + Food Ontology+ Semantic Web Primer

Thank you so much to everyone who came out yesterday for the inaugural Food+Tech Hackathon! I will be covering all of the interesting people, projects, and outcomes from the event over the next week, but wanted to get you started with this awesome video. We were extremely lucky  to have Dominic DiFranzo join us for

NYC Food + Tech Hackathon

NYC Food + Tech Hackathon

Please join Food+Tech Connect, Open Source Cities, & Gojee on December 4th for the inaugural Food+Tech Hackathon as part of the International Open Data Hackathon. This open-source hacking event will bring together developers from all over the state to hack on real-world problems relating to how we grow, prepare, and interact with food. What: Developers,