[Scale-planning] Thanks for enabling an Open Data track

[Mx Siltanen]

Hi,

I just wanted to share with the team a success story what SCaLE 15x enabled.

While it is a small start, it is a significant strategic win for SCaLE and
the pro-Open Source and pro-Open Data community.


1) Code for America Brigades had a booth on the expo floor, mostly
populated by volunteers from the local LA Chapter ( Hack for LA, thus if
you visited the booth you would have seen their banner ) Note, some of the
volunteers also work in the local government agencies.

We plan to invite and encourage the participation of additional brigades
for the next SCaLE.


2) On Sunday we had the Open Data: Cities Panel.
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/15x/presentations/open-data-cities-panel

During that event we had 4 presenting panelists:
Phillip LeClair, CIO City of Pasadena;
Jeanne Holm, Assistant General Manager/ Deputy CIO of City of Los Angeles;
Behrang Abadi, Sr IT Manager City of Santa Monica.
Jasmine Frost, Business Information Systems Bureau Manager
City of Long Beach

Jasmine also brought with her Bryan M. Sastokas, CIO of the City of Long
Beach.

This was the first time that some of these civic leaders had meet each
other, a significant event according to many of those participating.


3) As a result of this we just had an inquiry with regards to sponsorship
options from one of the local cities.


Considering the ability for SCaLE to be a venue and community which assists
in furthering the results of connecting those interested in Open Data and
Open Source in civics I would like to encourage you to reach out to their
local Code for America Brigades and invite them to join us at SCaLE in 2018.

List of Brigades are here ( note there are a number of international ones -
so maybe it should be Code for the World Brigades )
http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/brigade/list

Thank You
Matti
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