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Facebook Developer Circles

When: August 16th-17th (both days are mandatory) Where: Capital Factory Facebook Developer Circles Austin: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DevCAustin/
UT Good Systems, Facebook Developer Circles, and the City of Austin are partnering to address critical community engagement issues in Austin through a collaborative, interdisciplinary hackathon. The hackathon focuses on a commitment to create ethically responsible and societally beneficial technologies that enable the best of what people can do together to create positive change in their communities. With the City of Austin’s Public Participation Principles as a guide, hackers will design socio-technical solutions that can foster sustained and constructive civic engagement among residents.
Participants will have two days to create a solution that focuses on one more of the City of Austin’s Public Participation Principles. Participants will have access to subject matter experts with a blend of humanistic, social science, and technical expertise; deep technical knowledge of Facebook developer tools; and experience with facilitating community engagement with local government and projects.
Friday, August 16th
9:00a Check in 
10:00a Keynote Speaker: <A HREF="https://lbj.utexas.edu/directory/faculty/sherri-greenberg" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sherri Greenberg</A>
10:30a Team formation and ideation
11:30a Sessions
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<LI>Facebook Session 
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<LI>o   Overview of the developer technologies and where to find resources on them</LI>
</UL>
</LI>
</UL>
UT Good Systems 
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<LI>o   Introduce ethics of AI and user-centered design</LI>
<LI>City of Austin 
<UL>
<LI>o   Discuss City of Austin’s strategic community initiatives </LI>
</UL>
</LI>
</UL>
12:30p Hacking begins
10p Hackers leave
 
Saturday, August 17th
9a Hackers Return 
12:30p Hacking Ends 
1p judges go table-to-table listening to initial pitches
2-2:30p finalists announced and top 3 give presentations
3-5p winners announced and celebrate!
Who is a Hacker? Developing new approaches to promote community engagement requires collaboration among people with different skill sets, ranging from technologists to social scientists to humanists. Thus, we hope that you will come no matter what your background, as teams should include members with different expertise, so everyone is welcome, including social workers, librarians, community organizers, community service volunteers, psychologists, philosophers, artists, designers, scientists, engineers, programmers, etc.
*parking not provided
 Prizes: Each person on the winning team (5 person max) will receive a Facebook Portal!!

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