Comments on: TOPP Labs needs a new name

By: Hey there, 2011 » wrkng

Hey there, 2011 » wrkng — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:20:17 +0000

[...] and a particularly interesting 2010. Last year, we (meaning my corner of OpenPlans, called Civic Works) went from practically zero revenue to booking nearly $1.5mm — in the context of losing our [...]

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:36:23 +0000

The deed is done.

http://wrkng.net/2010/02/say-hello-to-civic-works/

Thanks everyone — we couldn’t have done it (as well) without you!

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:36:00 +0000

The deed is done.

http://wrkng.net/2010/02/say-hello-to-civic-works/

Thanks everyone — we couldn’t have done it (as well) without you!

By: Say hello to Civic Works » wrkng

Say hello to Civic Works » wrkng — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:15:54 +0000

[...] you so much to everyone who helped us think through our re-name of TOPP Labs yesterday. Your feedback and insights were absolutely invaluable to our [...]

By: Noel Hidalgo

Noel Hidalgo — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:25:42 +0000

if you’re looking for some bad ass street street cred, i would have a blog titled “the journal of civic hacking” or “civic hacking quarterly”

By: Noel Hidalgo

Noel Hidalgo — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:25:00 +0000

if you’re looking for some bad ass street street cred, i would have a blog titled “the journal of civic hacking” or “civic hacking quarterly”

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:00:27 +0000

Was thinking that we need to open up the language a little here. What you guys do is to make the city easier to use. Sorta turbocharge access to it.

WARNING: Unedited brain dump coming..

- Civic Layer Lab
- Urban Upcoding Project
- Hyper Planning LTD
- Urban Coding
- The Functional City Project
- Code to Action
- Coding the City
- Coding for a New City
- Civisimplify
- CivicCode
- ThinkCity
- MakeCity
- Urban Data Insitute
- SimpleCivic
- AHHHH! I can’t think of any more
- Civic Idea Center
- PlaceCoders
- CivicInfo
- Urban Information
- Urban Layer Makers
- EasyCiv
- The Layered City Project
- The Community Layer Lab
- Unicorn Rainbow Code Nursery.
- I’m out.

Jeff

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0000

Was thinking that we need to open up the language a little here. What you guys do is to make the city easier to use. Sorta turbocharge access to it.

WARNING: Unedited brain dump coming..

Jeff

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:56:02 +0000

@Noel – I agree with that. I don’t see us having “hacking” or “hacker” in the official name. Do you think maintaining the Civic Hacker blog would have the same effect? I kinda think not, and I like it for its dev cred.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:56:00 +0000