Max Ogden, a 21-year-old web developer from Portland, Ore., typically spends 9 to 5 developing software for a market research firm. It pays the rent but doesn’t ignite his passion. Then he takes his laptop to a local coffeehouse and gets busy on what he calls “my 5-to-9 projects.” By designing free, opensource applications in his spare time, using public data that the city of Portland makes available to developers to inspire innovation, he hopes to make his hometown function a…

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