Howard Dyckoff has lived in Oakland for over 40 years and has been involved with many community groups, including Oakland Digital and Oakland Local, Block by Block, the East Oakland Boxing Association (EOBA), and CBE. A New York transplant, Howard attended Laney College, where he wrote for the Laney Tower newspaper and was elected editor He has served as the Berkeley Free Clinic’s Outreach Coordinator, and also worked as an information technology professional at Chevron, Sybase, and Wells Fargo. Howard has been a regular contributor to Oakland Local and online publications such as TechTarget and Linux Gazette. He currently does event photography around the Bay Area.
With a waterfront ballpark moving closer to an Oakland reality, City government has launched an effort to bring community and business stakeholders together and also[Read more]
Residents of East Oakland are being invited to a birthday party for an infant community organization. Its been a year since the call went out[Read more]
Social Justice activists partied down on June 28 at the Oakland Progressives Party + Townie Awards at the Oakland Museum. The combined party, fundraiser, and awards[Read more]
Oakland’s annual CityCamp this Saturday brings together residents and technologists to plan and inspire Oakland’s future. The event is free and sponsored by the City[Read more]
Kayaking near Oakland’s airport? That could become reality if a series of projects led by Merritt College’s Environmental Management professors and students get traction with[Read more]
Andrew “Pete” Peterson, Oakland’s new head of technology, has a mission: improve the digital aspects of Oakland government, and do all he can to make[Read more]
A new energy is gathering in Deep East Oakland. Two community meetings in early December focused on familiar issues, such as improved schools and illegal[Read more]
This year’s Code for America Summit attracted thousands of tech experts and government policy wonks from across the country to Oakland. Their purpose is to[Read more]
