CityCamp Gainesville Hack Day
Hack Days
686 Museum Rd, Gainesville, FL, 32611 Room G330 Gainesville, Florida 32611 United States
Event Description
CityCamp Gainesville Hack Day is a one-day civic tech hackathon where you build something for this city. It starts with an unconference where everyone pitches problems worth solving, and teams form around the resulting ideas!
You don't need to know how to code! Anyone who lives in Gainesville and wants to make the city a better place belongs here.
Tracks:
EMERGE NASA and Environmental Data; Gainesville Community Fridge Hardware; TanitXR Technical: Build with 3D Heritage Models; TanitXR Public History and Communications; General Civic Tech; Queer Cybersecurity and Digital Safety.
Hosted by Florida Community Innovation as part of CityCamp Gainesville, the city's annual civic technology gathering.
Who can attend?
Locations have different requirements for who can attend. This location is open to the following:
Schedule
| Time | What happens |
|---|---|
| 9:30 AM | Check-in opens |
| 10:00 AM | Welcome and how the day works |
| 10:05 AM | Civic Tech: From Community Need to Public-Interest Technology - Caroline Nickerson, PhD, and Nicole Dan (20 minutes) |
| 10:25 AM | NASA Citizen Science: Connecting Community Observations and Earth Data - Di Yang, PhD (20 minutes) |
| 10:45 AM | Track overview, unconference topic pitches, and voting |
| 11:00 AM | Unconference sessions that feed into lunch |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch and team formation (and maybe you even start hacking!) |
| 12:30 PM | Hack Day track work begins |
| 5:00 PM | Project submissions close on on MLH |
| 5:15 PM | Project demos |
| 5:45 PM | Awards |
| 6:00 PM | Wrap-up |
Hosted by
Florida Community Innovation (FCI) is a civic tech focused nonprofit where students build software to help the community. We have various projects, including the flagship Florida Resource Map, helping underserved communities find access to resources, and Recyclepedia. CityCamp Gainesville plans to host a hackathon for their 2026 edition.