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**WHAT A WEEKEND!!** Projects
 * Real Time Bus Travel app
 * Travel Corridors and "innovation ideas" - Lee Begg, Julian Apatu, Deb Robb
 * Taxipool
 * Traffic Visualisations
 * Twitter @WellyArrivals
 * Wellington PT Corridor
 * Cycle tracking

Photos
 * [|Mike Riversdale's G+]
 * Mike Clare: http://www.mikeclare.com/ - use the login for each day:
 * Saturday: //hackmiramar //
 * Sunday: //hacksunday//

Thanks so much to our sponsors!

//Original welcome//

Hack Miramar is Wellington's first civic hacking event and hopefully one of many to come. It's an open invitation to innovators, designers, architects, developers and those who are just interested in coming up with new ideas and want to get involved.
 * Welcome to Hack Miramar (Sat 1st / Sun 2nd November) **

A group of like-minded individuals an sponsors are coming together on the 1st and 2nd of November this year to participate in Wellington’s first Civic Hackathon. While this has been branded a “Miramar” Hackathon it is open to everyone within the Wellington region.

=**What is a "hackathon"**= A hackathon is an intensive session where a group of people are giving a civic problem, data, tools, and bring their own skills & resources to solve that problem. Hackathon comes from merging “hack” and “marathon” [see also [|Wikipedia: Hackathon]]

=The Challenge= One of Wellington City’s greatest challenges and contentious issues is that of traffic management and flow. Traffic being pedestrians, cyclists, public transport, taxis, freight, and private vehicles. Therefore the challenge is: //How do we increase the quality of transport around the Eastern Suburbs Peninsula and to and from the Central Business District?”// Also see: Potential Challenges and Ideas to work on during the weekend

=When & Where= > Coming by public transport: best bus is #2 stop on Darlington Road / Puriri Street [[|map]] and walk along Puriri Street, turn right at the end and just up Park Road by the roundabout.
 * **Saturday 1st November** (9am - 5pm, get together at Gasworks, 5:01pm+)
 * **Sunday 2nd November** (9am-5pm)
 * **127 Park Road, Miramar** [[|map]]

See: weekend schedule

=Registration= The event is FREE and, if you're someone that can DO (web / mobile developer, data geek, designer, hardware hacker ...) then register NOW ... (note: there is a hard limit of 50 spaces)

=Potential Challenges and Ideas= A number of early ideas that reams could work on have come as people have started to work on the hackathon - add yours ...

**Sponsors** We need sponsors for
 * Lunches
 * Tech gadgets
 * Data

=Stay connected=
 * This Wiki
 * [|Google Group emailing list]
 * Twitter: @HackMiramar

=Tools, data and background info=
 * Background Reading
 * Data Sources
 * Hardware
 * [|Community input on the Social Pinpoint map]
 * Documents
 * Current News Feeds

=Logistics=
 * Stuff we need and things to do
 * Future Hackathon Ideas - V2.0 and Beyond
 * The Fanatics
 * References