Bethesda Now: Civic Group Hopes For More Involvement Through Hackathon

A group of some of the most civic-minded folks in Montgomery County are coming to Bethesda this weekend to develop a Ride On bus app, service for making public information requests and database of Maryland lobbying activities.
The Montgomery County Civic Federation, Montgomery County Taxpayers League and the Parents’ Coalition of Montgomery County together with a grant from the nonprofit Sunlight Foundation will put on the two-day “Great Montgomery Hackathon” at the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center (4805 Edgemoor Lane).
“One of the goals is to get people interested in civic activism to work with the IT programmers. This seemed like a good way to get those two groups of people together,” said Civic Fed member and organizer Paula Bienenfeld. “We’ll see how far we get by Sunday afternoon and hopefully set up something more regular out of it.”
The free event is open to civic activists, citizens, software developers and anyone else interested.
From 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, those people will work together to create four already outlined software programs and any more that come up:...
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