The up to date program of the meeting is to be found on the event’s website. One of the sessions covers the topic of the “Balkan” elections. The Truth-o-meter (Istinomjer) and community boost_r network representatives will speak at this one. TechSoup Europe also invited last year’s Balkan Challenges winners to both participate in the conference and meet-up for an especially designed workshop. During the workshop, to happen on March 12, winning project’s representatives will evaluate the entire competition experience as well as learn more about usability and civic tech apps in general. One of the trainers will be Tony Bowden of MySociety himself!

 

The following Central Open Data Hackathon on the other hand, organized within the framework of the Code for Poland hackhaton series as well as a part of the PDF conference, aims to bring together developers, designers, and civic activists from Eastern and Central Europe, who will create applications for the civil society. Programmers will be supported by 30 mentors from all over the world – the people who are engaged in advocating for open data and new technologies serving the society, among them Alicja Peszkowska and Chris Worman from TechSoup Europe. The hackathon is organized by ePanstwo (ePf) Foundation, Common Europe Foundation and Project Teplitsa Technologies for Society

 

Both events are still open for registrations. We encourage you to either

• participate [register for the PDF meeting here and for the hackathon here]
• follow both events online: #PDFPLCEE14 & #CEEHack14

 

We will be posting more updates, including those from the ‘community boost_r - participants’ themselves, as we go. If you have any Qs regarding the entire project, let us know ([email protected]).

Stay tuned!