Interested in learning more about elections and local politics but don’t have time?

Sign up for voteict.org, a project of devICT, KMUW and AB&C Bilingual Resources. The website allows people to sign up for push notifications that gives up-to-date information about voter registration, elections, candidates and more. The notifications are available in English and Spanish.

Volunteers from the local tech community recently participated in a Civic Tech Hackathon at Groover Labs, focusing on the website. The two-day event drew a crowd of about 10 people.

In the past, devICT participated in the National Day of Civic Hacking but decided to go out on its own to focus on voteict.org and Open Meetings, an app for government meetings that are open to the public, said Seth Etter, the founder of devICT and an at-large board member.

“We wanted to focus on voteICT. It’s an important year for people to get their voting reminders,” said Julia Winegeart, vice president of devICT.

During the hackathon, volunteers worked through an existing backlog of feature requests and app maintenance.

Anyone interested in learning more or helping with the projects may visit devICT.org and sign up for its Slack channel.