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    <h1>Want To Help Cleveland?</br>
      <small>Good, we could use your help.</small>
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    <p class="lead">We are a volunteer group that contribute our talents by 
      working with our community to improve local government and through relationships and civic technology projects. 
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    <p class="lead">We do a lot of things together, but our main activity is our <a href="http://www.meetup.com/open-cleveland/">Meeting / Hack Night</a>, usually held on the first Wednesday every month. This meeting is for those who want to:</p>
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      <li>presentations from community members sharing a tech skill or how local government works. </li>
      <li>start a new project, or find one to join (all backgrounds welcome!)</li>
      <li>bounce ideas and get help from tech and gov experts</li>
      <li>learn about open data, civic technology (technology for the public good) and open government</li>
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    <p class="lead">What is Civic Hacking? <a href="https://codeforamerica.org/news/what-is-civic-hacking/">Here's an introduction by Code for America</a></p>
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    <p>For more, watch the inspirational TED talk given by Jennifer Pahlka, the founder of Code for America.</a>
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