TEDxBuffalo 2011 - Remy DeCausemaker - Open Data, Open Government, and the Open Source Way
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Remy DeCausemaker, Chief Architect of FOSS@RIT (http://foss.rit.edu/), explores the old-school, noble sense of the word "hacking," and illustrates the important tools that can be built with publicly available government data. From the TEDxBuffalo event held on Oct. 11, 2011, at the Montante Cultural Center at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY. In... Read more
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- -: TEDxBuffalo 2011 - Remy DeCausemaker - Open Data, Open Government, and the Open Source Way
October 21, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Remy DeCausemaker, Chief Architect of FOSS@RIT (http://foss.rit.edu/), explores the old-school, noble sense of the word "hacking," and illustrates the important tools that can be built with publicly available government data. From the TEDxBuffalo event held on Oct. 11, 2011, at the Montante Cultu...
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- -: TEDxBuffalo 2011 - Uncrowned Queens - Uncrowned Queens & Community Builders
October 21, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dr. Barbara Seals Nevergold and Dr. Peggy Brooks-Bertram discuss how they started compiling and sharing the untold stories of African-American women in building Buffalo, NY, and then expanding to cover more people and more stories, all starting from a meeting across a kitchen table. In the spir...
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- -: TEDxBuffalo - Ethan Cox - Embeer Your City for Fun & Profit
October 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Ethan Cox, co-founder of Buffalo's Community Beer Works (communitybeerworks.com) and a Certified Cicerone, talks about the role of local beer in creating socially significant "third rooms," and his mission to bring back Buffalo's pre-Prohibition "bierkultur." In the spirit of ideas worth spreadi...
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- -: TEDxBuffalo - Patrick Lango - Breaking Out of an Exquisite Prison
October 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Patrick Lango, fourth-generation farmer and maker of small-batch foods for White Cow Dairy, describes how the modern dairy industry strips the individual flavors and distinctions out of dairy foods, and how farmers can take back control of their business and quality. In the spirit of ideas worth...
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- -: TEDxBuffalo - Eric Walker - A Continuum of Care for Sick Cities
October 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Eric Walker, co-founder of People United for Sustainable Housing in Buffalo (PUSH Buffalo, http://pushbuffalo.org) calls for a multi-pronged, long-view approach to healing sick cities, much like we want in our personal health care. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of loc...
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- -: TEDxBuffalo - Chuck Banas - Buffalo's GreenCode: Making Zoning Smart, Green, & Sexy
October 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Community activist and Buffalo GreenCode proponent Chuck Banas encourages us to think of zoning not as a bureaucratic process, but as the legal expression of what a community wants. He summarizes the history of zoning in Buffalo, NY, and shows us how far it can go toward a better future. In the ...
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- -: TEDxBuffalo - Karen Armstrong - Future Cities
October 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Karen Armstrong of CADDimensions talks about her 27-year career in the engineering industry, and how initiatives like the Future Cities Competition can spur kids, and especially women, to take on math and science education head-on--one amazing city plan at a time. In the spirit of ideas worth sp...
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- -: TEDxBuffalo - Stacey Watson - Rebooting Education in Our Urban Core
October 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Stacey L. Watson, founder and CEO of Drop-In Nation, explains how a curriculum aimed at addressing the whole-person needs of the increasing number of public school drop-outs has led to a remarkable success at graduating students and sending 73 percent of them onto college, job training, or employ...
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- -: TEDxBuffalo - Patrick Finan - A Small House with Nice Things
October 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Patrick Finan, founder of Block Club Creative (http://blockclubcreative.com) asks us to consider whether we want to measure our success by enormity, or whether we want to fill our life's spaces with happiness, focus, and meaning. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local...
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- -: TEDxBuffalo - John Bordynuik - From Plastic (Back) to Oil
October 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)John Bordynuik, CEO of JBI, Inc. (http://plastic2oil.com), shows how plastic came to make up a huge part of the world's waste stream, and discusses the challenges and triumphs in recycling that plastic back into clean, usable oil. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of loca...
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