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title: 'Max Ogden of CivicApps PDX API fame garners Code for America fellowship'
date: '2010-11-01T16:57:42-07:00'
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categories:
  - API
  - CivicApps
  - Oregon
  - pdx
  - Portland
tags:
  - civicapps
  - 'code for america'
  - 'max ogden'
  - 'pdx api'
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# Max Ogden of CivicApps PDX API fame garners Code for America fellowship

Remember the [CivicApps](http://siliconflorist.com/2010/10/11/civic-duty-today-portland-civicapps-duty/ "CivicApps") contest? Of course you do. Who am I kidding?

Well one of the most valuable things to come out of that contest was [PDX API](http://pdxapi.com/ "PDX API"), a way of making sense of [all of the data sets offered up by the City of Portland](http://siliconflorist.com/2010/04/20/open-data-civicapps-101-datasets-data-geeking-portland-oregon/ "Portland, open data, and CivicApps: 101 open datasets for your geeking pleasure"). So valuable, in fact, that [Max Ogden, creator of PDX API, was just awarded a fellowship by Code for America](http://codeforamerica.org/2010/11/01/2011-cfa-fellows/ "http://codeforamerica.org/2010/11/01/2011-cfa-fellows/"), an organization that connects “city governments and Web 2.0 talent.”

Max was one of 20 fellows selected from more than 360 applicants.

> Max Ogden develops client applications, developer tools, and APIs, currently living in Portland, OR, and working as a developer at a market research company. In his spare time, he develops open source civic applications, including a hosted data service for geographic information about Portland, OR, called PDX API. In a 2010 apps competition hosted by the City of Portland, his work on PDX API was awarded, “Best use of public data.”

So what’s that mean? Well, it means that Max needs to lead by example.

> Starting in January, it will be their challenge to not only build innovative apps for each of our cities, but also become the leaders of the ongoing movement to make government more open and efficient.

What with [Portland working to be an open city](http://siliconflorist.com/2009/09/30/portland-oregon-open-city-officially-embracing-open-data-open-source/ "Portland Oregon joins the ranks of the open cities officially embracing open data and open source") and all, this is a big positive nod. And it’s great to see [Max](http://www.twitter.com/maxogden "Max Ogden") being recognized for all of his hard work.

More more information on the fellowship, see [Code for America](http://codeforamerica.org "Code for America"). For more on Max’s work, visit [PDX API](http://pdxapi.com/ "PDX API").

*(Hat tip [Leslie Hawthorn](http://twitter.com/#!/lhawthorn/ "Leslie Hawthorn") and [Don Park](http://twitter.com/#!/donpdonp "Don Park"))*