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---
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title: About
description: Chi Hack Night is a free, weekly event in Chicago to build, share and learn about tools to create, support, and serve the public good.
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<h2>Sections</h2>
<a href='#about'>About</a><br />
<a href='#what-happens'>What happens at a hack night?</a><br />
<a href='#everyone'>Everyone is welcome!</a><br />
<a href='#how-are-you-organized'>How are you organized?</a><br />
<a href='#hack-night-model'>Chi Hack Night model</a><br />
<a href='#special-thanks'>Special thanks</a><br />
<a href='#press'>Press</a><br />
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<h1 id='about'>About</h1>
<p><strong>Chi Hack Night</strong> is a free, weekly event in Chicago to build, share and learn about tools to create, support, and serve the public good.</p>
<p>We are a group of thousands of designers, academic researchers, data journalists, activists, policy wonks, web developers and curious citizens who want to make our city more just, equitable, transparent and delightful to live in through data, design and technology.</p>
<p><iframe width="100%" height="450" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pkxFNGQ-qdw" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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<h3 id='values'>Chi Hack Night's values</h3>
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<li>Diversity, equity & inclusion</li>
<li>A fun, welcoming, open-minded community empowering individuals </li>
<li>Practicing and promoting transparency and accountability</li>
<li>Commitment to supporting our community</li>
<li>Exploration and experimentation</li>
<li>Community service</li>
<li>Sharing knowledge, data, and open source code</li>
<li>Justice and positive social change</li>
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<h3 id='what-happens'>What happens at a hack night?</h3>
<p>Chi Hack Night starts every Tuesday at 7pm. The event is free, and the invitation is open to anyone, especially folks who aren’t programmers.</p>
<p>Here's what happens at Chi Hack Night every week:</p>
<p><strong>7:00pm – Welcome and announcements</strong></p>
<p>We get started around 7:00pm with a brief welcome and introduction to the event and then kick off the announcements.</p>
<p>Announcements are for civic tech and open government related things. This could be plugging other events, mentioning newsworthy articles and more recently, job announcements in the government and civic tech space</p>
<p><strong>7:15pm – Presentation with Q&A</strong></p>
<p>Just about every week, we have a feature presentation that lasts about 25 minutes, with 20 minutes for question & answer (Q&A) after.</p>
<p>Presenters can be any government agency, non-profit, company or group who’ve made use of open government data or built a civic technology application. Anyone can propose a talk, and I often reach out to presenters who would be a good fit. For every speaker, we provide some clear <a href="http://chihacknight.org/speaker-submissions.html">speaker guidelines</a>.</p>
<p><strong>8:00pm – 10:00pm - Breakout into learning and prototyping groups</strong></p>
<p>Once the presentation wraps up, the format of the event switches up to what I’d describe as a mini-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon">hackathon</a>. People are invited to break off into groups and work on projects.</p>
<p><a href="http://chihacknight.org/breakouts.html">Breakout groups</a> that last more than a few weeks are listed on the <a href="http://chihacknight.org/">ChiHackNight.org</a> website, and are divided into two tracks: learning groups and prototyping groups.</p>
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<p><strong>Learning Groups</strong> - Learning groups are for new folks (about 30% of attendees on any given week are new), those who want to learn technology skills, and discuss or refine their civic app ideas.</p>
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<p><strong>Prototyping Groups</strong> - Topic-specific working groups led by facilitators to guide conversations, answer questions, and prototype civic apps.</p>
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<h3 id='everyone'>Everyone is welcome!</h3>
<p>Not a techie? <strong>That's ok!</strong> We encourage non-technical folks to pair up and <a href='/breakouts.html'>learn</a> from our community's <a href='/open-source-people.html'>designers and developers</a>. We've seen time and time again, the best <a href='/open-source-projects.html'>civic projects</a> come from teams with a diverse background.</p>
<p><strong>Remember</strong>, there's much more to making a great app than just coding.</p>
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<h3 id='how-are-you-organized'>How are you organized?</h3>
<p>Chi Hack Night is organized by the <strong><a href='/board-of-directors.html'>Chi Hack Night Board of Directors</a></strong>. They are responsible for governing our organization, as well as running our events, managing our website, keeping the books, and doing all the other things needed to make Chi Hack Night happen.</p>
<strong>Finances</strong><br />
<p>Chi Hack Night is hosted at <a href='https://teamworking.vc/'>TeamWorking</a> and supported by our amazing <a href='/index.html#sponsors'>sponsors</a>. Through May 2019, <a href='https://datamade.us/'>DataMade</a> has been our fiscal sponsor and handled all of our financial transactions.</p>
<p>Chi Hack Night NFP is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization as of April 2020.</p>
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<h3 id='hack-night-model'>Chi Hack Night model</h3>
<p>Hack nights anchor and grow volunteer civic hacking communities while avoiding 'hackathon fatigue'. To learn how to organize one in your city, see our blog post on <a href="/blog/2015/11/23/10-lessons-from-organizing-the-chi-hack-night.html">10 lessons from organizing Chi Hack Night</a>.</p>
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<h3 id='special-thanks'>Special thanks</h3>
<p>Chi Hack Night would not have been possible without the generous help from many people and organizations. Very special thanks goes to:</p>
<ul>
<li><p><a href='https://datamade.us'>DataMade</a>, for being our fiscal sponsor from Jan 2013 - May 2019.</p></li>
<li><p><a href='https://twitter.com/jpvelez'>Juan-Pablo Velez</a>, for founding Chi Hack Night, co-organizing the event, providing spiritual guidance, calling out jargon, lining up amazing speakers, fighting for independence and generally instituting an atmosphere of relentless curiosity wrapped in love and smothered with sarcasm from March 2012 - July 2014.</p></li>
<li><p><a href='http://webitects.com/'>Webitects</a>, for hosting the first 9 hack nights at their office from March 2012 - May 2012.</p></li>
<li><p><a href='http://www.1871.com/'>1871</a> for hosting Chi Hack Night (back when we were known as Open Gov Hack Night) for 2 ½ years from May 2012 - January 2015.</p></li>
<li><p><a href='http://www.smartchicagocollaborative.org/'>Smart Chicago Collaborative</a>, for <a href='https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ75D_m2b5GvJAG0us4XS5QvIMBSoqtH1'>recording</a>, documenting and writing over 100 Chi Hack Night blog posts and sponsoring the work of Chi Hack Night Organizer <a href='https://twitter.com/civicwhitaker'>Christopher Whitaker</a> for more than two years. Smart Chicago was also responsible for hosting Chi Hack Night at <a href='http://www.1871.com/'>1871</a> for our first nine months there and sponsored several events. They continue to provide tech support for civic tech projects via their <a href='http://www.smartchicagocollaborative.org/work/ecosystem/developer-resources/hosted-web-space/'>hosted web space</a>, <a href='http://www.smartchicagocollaborative.org/work/ecosystem/documenters/'>documenter</a>, and <a href='http://www.cutgroup.org/'>CUTGroup</a> programs.</p></li>
<li><p><a href='https://www.linkedin.com/pub/aya-o-connor/6/3b2/8b6'>Aya O'Connor</a> for her help in brand strategy and creating the <a href='/images/logo/logo_lg.png'>Chi Hack Night logo</a>.</p></li>
<li><p><a href='http://www.thoughtworks.com/'>ThoughtWorks</a> for sponsoring food from May 2013 - March 2015.</p></li>
<li><p><a href='http://GitHub.com/'>GitHub</a> for sponsoring food from May 2014 - February 2016.</p></li>
</ul>
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<h3 id='press'>Press</h3>
<p>Our group has been covered in both local and national media. Here are some highlights:</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.govtech.com/civic/How-Chicagos-Tradition-of-Civic-Organizing-Inspired-the-Best-in-Civic-Tech.html">How Chicago's Tradition of Civic Organizing Inspired the Best in Civic Tech</a>
<br />June 8, 2018
<br />Zack Quaintance, GovTech</p>
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<p><a href="https://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2018/05/16/using-chicago-s-data-good-chi-hack-night-celebrates-300-events">Using Chicago’s Data for Good: Chi Hack Night Celebrates 300 Events (video)</a>
<br />May 16, 2018
<br />Evan Garcia, WTTW Chicago Tonight</p>
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<p><a href="http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2017/09/18/how-chicago-hacktivist-derek-eder-uses-public-data-good">How Chicago ‘Hacktivist’ Derek Eder Uses Public Data for Good (video)</a>
<br />September 18, 2017
<br />Evan Garcia, WTTW Chicago Tonight</p>
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<p><a href="http://abc7chicago.com/news/hacktivists-working-to-make-sense-of-chicago-police-data-dump-/1377315/">Hacktivists working to make sense of Chicago police data dump</a>
<br />June 8, 2016
<br />Ben Bradley, ABC 7 Chicago</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.contributoria.com/issue/2015-03/54b327cf43fb89c564000145">Hacking for the planet</a>
<br />March 1, 2015
<br />Eric T. Halvorson, Contributoria</p>
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<p><a href="http://opentwincities.org/2014/08/30/lessons-from-chicago-what-can-be-built/">Lessons from Chicago: What Can Be Built</a>
<br />Aug 30, 2014
<br />Bill Bushey, Open Twin Cities</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ztTMaDjCz4">Open Government Hack Night</a> (video)
<br />May 27, 2014
<br />City of Chicago TV</p>
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<p><a href="http://gapersblock.com/thegrid/2014/04/01/open-gov-hack-night/index.php">Open Gov Hack Night</a> (video)
<br />Apr 1, 2014
<br />The Grid, Gapers Block</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.redeyechicago.com/news/local/ct-red-young-chicago-hackers-20130920,0,5305032.story">Can you hack it?</a>
<br />Sep 20, 2013
<br />Tracy Swartz, RedEye Chicago</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.wbez.org/news/%E2%80%98hoodies%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98suits%E2%80%99-and-others-behind-chicago-government-20-106458">The ‘hoodies’, the ‘suits’ and others behind Chicago Government 2.0</a>
<br />Apr 3, 2013
<br />Elliott Ramos, WBEZ</p>
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<p><a href="http://chicagopolicyreview.org/2013/04/01/policy-radio-special-edition-derek-eder-juan-pablo-velez-and-opengov-hackers-on-open-data-and-civic-minded-applications/">Derek Eder, Juan Pablo Velez, and OpenGov Hackers on Open Data and Civic-Minded Applications</a>
<br />Apr 1, 2013
<br />Julie Cooper, Chicago Policy Review</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.timeout.com/chicago/things-to-do/open-government-hack-night">Open Government Hack Night</a>
<br />Jan 16 2013
<br />Jake Malooley, TimeOut Chicago</p>
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