BOALT has sponsored the upcoming events and thinks you should attend.  Also, we’re currently looking for a LAMP developer, so give us a shout!

• Social Matchbox on August 20, 2009
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• Refresh DC on August 20, 2009
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• TechCocktail on August 27, 2009
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• Tech Adventure on August 29, 2009
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• Tap the Collective on September 2, 2009
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• Ignite Annapolis on October 1, 2009
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• Ignite DC on October 8, 2009
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• Ignite Baltimore on October 22, 2009
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• RE BarCamp DC on October 27, 2009
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• TedX (Baltimore) on November 5, 2009
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Need a ride?

BOALT will be providing transportation from D.C. to the following events: Ignite Baltimore, Ignite Annapolis and TedX in a MotorCoach.  Plenty of beer, wine and snacks will be provided by BOALT.   There is room for 25 additional people for each event.  If your interested in hitching a ride, just RSVP in the comments below – make sure to include names of each person and the event.  (limited space, so we’ll contact you to confirm reservation)

If your hosting an event and would like BOALT to sponsor the event, just email us!

Also, look for us at some national upcoming events:

• Digital Dealer Conference, November 1 – 3, 2009 in Nashville, TN
• NADA, February 13-15, 2009 in Orlando, FL

In 2008, DC’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer created a contest called Apps for Democracy. The purpose of the contest was to create innovative applications that would make information from the DC Data Catalog available to the public.

The contest cost the district $50,000, but the 47 iPhone, Facebook and other applications created for the contest are estimated to be worth $2.6 million.

Adam Boalt, the founder of BOALT Interactive Business, entered the 2008 contest and walked away with the Agency Gold Medal for DCHistoricTours.com. The website is a tourism site created by the people, for the people. Anyone can become a user and create a tour of Washington, DC. You can share your tours with the public or keep them private. The application pulls photographs from Flickr to highlight different parts of your tour or pulls entries from Wikipedia articles providing historical information about specific locations along your tour route. You can also find places to eat along your route with Yelp.

On Thursday, Rebekah Kenefick from DC’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer brought Jim Meyers with Government Technology Magazine, and a film crew to the BOALT office to interview Adam about the Apps for Democracy contest and to discuss the democratization of data or Open Data Democracy as we like to call it. Watch the video below of their visit to BOALT headquarters: