Open Gov Hack Night
Website for Chicago's weekly Open Gov Hack Night
Built in plain HTML, Javascript and CSS
Javascript libraries
- Bootstrap 3 - HTML and CSS layouts
- DataTables - for searching and sorting talbes
- Mustache - templating library for javascript (used on projects page)
- jQuery Address - for deep linking URLs on the projects page
Projects and People
The projects and people pages are powered by Github and civic-json-worker, a script we run every 5 minutes that fetches data from the Github API.
The JSON files are backed up every hour in the civic-json-files repository.