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"Margaret Frances Hobbs (née Jackson; March 15, 1909BC Death Registration 1997-09-016676 - August 14, 1997) was an educator and political figure in British Columbia. She represented Revelstoke in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1962 to 1963 as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) member. She was born in Berwick, Ontario and was educated in Manitoba. She married George Hobbs. She was elected to the provincial assembly in a 1962 by-election held following the death of her husband. She was defeated when she ran for reelection in 1963. Originally a resident of Revelstoke, Hobbs later moved to Victoria and died there in 1997. Electoral results References 1909 births 1997 deaths British Columbia Co-operative Commonwealth Federation MLAs 20th-century Canadian politicians Women MLAs in British Columbia 20th- century Canadian women politicians "
"The 1982 Montana Grizzlies football team represented the University of Montana in the 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season as a member of the Big Sky Conference. The Grizzlies were led by third-year head coach Larry Donovan, played their home games at Dornblaser Field and finished the season with a record of six wins and six losses (6–6, 5–2 Big Sky) as the Big Sky Conference champions. Tied with Idaho and Montana State at the top of the league standings, Montana defeated both to win the tie-breaker and title. Schedule References External links *Montana Grizzlies football – 1982 media guide Montana Montana Grizzlies football seasons Big Sky Conference football champion seasons Montana Grizzlies football "
"Jennifer Pahlka (born 1969) is the founder and former Executive Director of Code for America. She served as US Deputy Chief Technology Officer from June 2013 to June 2014 and helped found the United States Digital Service. Previously she had worked at CMP Media with various roles in the computer game industry. She was the co-chair and general manager of the Web 2.0 conferences. Personal life She was born in Port Deposit, Maryland, and raised in Austin, New Haven, and New York City. She is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and Yale University. She married Tim O'Reilly in 2015, and lives in Oakland, California, with her daughter and husband. Career Pahlka spent eight years at CMP Media (now part of United Business Media), where she led the Game Group, responsible for the Game Developers Conference (GDC), Game Developer Magazine, and Gamasutra.com. She oversaw the dramatic growth of GDC from 1995 to 2003, and launched the Independent Games Festival and the Game Developers Choice Awards. She was also the executive director of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), an independent non-profit association serving game developers around the world. During this time she also served on the advisory boards of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) and the GDC, and on the board of directors of the IGDA. More recently, from 2005 to 2009, she was the co-chair and general manager of the Web 2.0 events for TechWeb, a division of United Business Media, in partnership with O'Reilly Media. In that role, she proposed the creation of the Web 2.0 Expo, and became the co-chair for the event. She also played a key role in managing the Gov 2.0 Summit and Gov 2.0 Expo. Code for America Pahlka founded Code for America, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization that aims to make government for all people.Code For America Receives $1.5M Grant From Google To Help The Government Harness Technology, Leena Rao, Techcrunch, December 14, 2011 According to the Washington Post it "is the technology world’s equivalent of the Peace Corps or Teach for America… [offering] an alternative to the old, broken path of government IT." Code for America: An elegant solution for government IT problems, Vivek Wadhwa, The Washington Post, December 18, 2011 In her 2012 TED Talk, Palhlka noted that we will not be able to reinvent government unless we also reinvent citizenship, and asked "Are we just going to be a crowd of voices, or are we going to be a crowd of hands?" Coding a Better Government, TED.com United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer In May 2013 Pahlka announced she was temporarily taking the position of deputy chief technology officer for government innovation for the US government's Office of Science and Technology Policy. She described the opportunity as her "own fellowship year of sorts."Camille Tuutti (May 30, 2013) "Pahlka named deputy CTO of government innovation", Fed Scoop. Federal CTO Todd Park originally tried to recruit Pahlka to run the Presidential Innovation Fellows, a program loosely modeled on Code for America. In her role as Deputy US CTO she managed Round 2 of the program and organized the creation of Round 3, but her principal goal during her year at the White House was to create something more equivalent to the UK's Government Digital Service. She set in motion the creation of the United States Digital Service within the Executive Office of the President, and helped start 18F at the General Services Administration. Recognition Pahlka was awarded an Internet and Society Award from the Oxford Internet Institute, in recognition of her contribution to digital open government in the US. For her work re-imagining government for the 21st century, Pahlka was named a 2011 HuffPost Gamechanger.HuffPost's 2011 Game Changers: This Year's Ultimate 12, Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post, October 26, 2011 She was a celebrity judge for the Federal Communications Commission's Apps for Community contest, along with Marc Andreessen and Newark Mayor Cory Booker. She was elected an Ashoka Fellow in 2012. She also gave a keynote speech at South By Southwest Interactive in 2012. In 2018, Pahlka accepted the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship on behalf of Code for America and she was featured among "America's Top 50 Women In Tech" by Forbes. East Bay Mini Maker Faire Pahlka is also a co-founder, with Sabrina Merlo and Corey Weinstein, of the East Bay Mini Maker Faire. In comments to The Huffington Post, she made explicit the connection between her work on open government and the Maker movement, saying, "There is a certain generation who have grown up being able to mash up, to tinker with, every system they've ever encountered. So they are meeting their relationship with government in a new way, with a new assumption: We can fix it." The East Bay Mini Maker Faire currently attracts around 7,000 people annually. References External links * Code for America official website * Civic Commons, a project of Code for America * Changing Government and Tech with Geeks, Nick Bilton, The New York Times, July 6, 2010 * How an Army of Techies Is Taking on City Hall, Anya Kamenetz, Fast Company, November 29, 2010 * Innovator: Jennifer Pahlka, John Tozzi, Business Week, April 7, 2011 * Remaking Government in a Wiki Age, Chrystia Freeland/Reuters, The New York Times, August 18, 2011 * HuffPost's 2011 Game Changers: This Year's Ultimate 12, Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post, October 26, 2011 * Code For America Receives $1.5M Grant From Google To Help The Government Harness Technology, Leena Rao, Techcrunch, December 14, 2011 * Code for America: An elegant solution for government IT problems, Vivek Wadhwa, The Washington Post, December 18, 2011 * Possum problems and building better government: Jennifer Pahlka at TED2012, TED Blog, February 29, 2012 * Jennifer Pahlka is named one of Government Technology's magazine Top 25: Doers, Dreamers and Drivers of 2012. Living people 1969 births Office of Science and Technology Policy officials People from Port Deposit, Maryland American computer programmers Yale University alumni Video game businesspeople American technology company founders Ashoka USA Fellows Ashoka Fellows "