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JOIN US FOR CITYGRAM SATURDAY - 24 Oct! #19

Closed noneck closed 8 years ago

noneck commented 8 years ago

Join Us For CityGram.NYC Saturday

Help improve notifications for NYC 311 Open Data

On Sat, Oct 24, from Noon till 7:00 pm, we're going to improve NYC's CityGram notifications!

CityGram.NYC is a geographic notification platform designed to work with open government data. It allows residents to designate area(s) of a city they are interested in and subscribe to one or more topics. For this weekend, we're going to subdivide NYC's 311 data feeds and teach you how to build new notification feeds.

We are looking for 10 - 15 skilled civic hackers who want to spend a Saturday afternoon learning how to maintain CityGram.NYC and build up its data resources. Our long term goal is build up a dedicated, volunteer support team that can support CityGram.

To attend this event, leave a comment on this github issue with your name, email address, and superpower.

Why we're doing it

  1. We want to make Citygram more relevant and useful for all New Yorkers
  2. We want to teach people how to use the open data portals. More users, means more support
  3. We want to break up the 311 Notifications into more useful feeds, school closures, potholes, streetlights, etc.
  4. We want to show people they can be a part of open source development without any long term commitments
  5. We also want to show those who are interested in longer term projects, how rewarding this can be

    Who will be there to help out

We have a dedicated team of Citygram maintainers who love teaching people about open data.

Pothole only data feed, using a simple condition on existing 311 data

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Things you know/need to do before arriving.

  1. Some programing experience (if you know what a variable is, you're there!). x = 123
  2. Comfortable with GitHub pull requests.
  3. Join BetaNYC's slack channel and hop into #citygram.
  4. Review NYC 311's data and think about what you type of data you or your friends would want to use.
  5. Join talk.beta.nyc/CityGram.NYC and start watching the category.

    Useful Resources

  6. Installing Citygram on a development machine
  7. NYC 311 Categories with Complaint Types or this is a roll up of the Complaint Types on the City's open data portal
  8. Building a Citygram Adapter

    Date and Location

Date: Saturday, 24 Oct 2015 Location: Data & Society; 36 West 20th Street, 11th Floor, New York NY

Schedule Noon - Doors open (We'll have coffee and juice) Noon:30 - Event starts 5 pm - Dinnerish 7 pm - Clean up

RSVP

Comment on this issue with your first & last name, email address, & super power.

Confirmed attendants

  1. @noneck
  2. @dirkkelly
  3. @fma2
  4. @excepttheweasel
  5. @mashcode (Maybe)
  6. @fattyduck
  7. @tomca32
  8. @seanluciotolentino
  9. @karissa
  10. @gfleetwood
  11. @mikedillion
  12. @benmoss
  13. @SokhnaVor
  14. @rayrshah
j16r commented 8 years ago

I'll be there.

John Barker, jebarker@gmail.com, hitting the snooze button.

noneck commented 8 years ago

@excepttheweasel good! cause you're going to help co-host the event!!! ;-)

dirkkelly commented 8 years ago

Dirk Kelly, citygram@dirkkelly.com, gramming cities

fma2 commented 8 years ago

Farheen Malik, farheen.m.malik@gmail.com, listening to podcasts

noneck commented 8 years ago

@fma2 happy to have you co-host the event! It is the CityGram jamband!

mashcode commented 8 years ago

Hi all, Is virtual participation ok in tandem? Coincidently I just yesterday spoke with a director from GrowNYC Grow to Learn about utilizing this. Communication among the various Greenies is still wedded to email so citygram could at least provide a shared platform . They have data but...it'll need some structure.

marc@marcshifflett.com / plum tarts

mashcode commented 8 years ago

Oops my bad...didn't see the 311 hook. Sorry. You're welcome to my garden green space and rooster data. I can upload to data.beta

noneck commented 8 years ago

@mashcode We really want in person attendance. In the future, we imagine virtual participation.

fattyduck commented 8 years ago

Greetings everyone, been interested in joining this meetup for a long time. I am sure there is a lot to learn and much thanks to host for the opportunity.

Dison Ruan dison.ruan@yahoo.com

tomca32 commented 8 years ago

I'd like to hop in.

Tomislav Pesut t@tomislav.io Doing no work, getting the credit and getting away with it

noneck commented 8 years ago

Is that your superpower?

I hope you're coming to get some work done.

tomca32 commented 8 years ago

That's definitely my superpower.

Just kidding though, I'm actually going to get some work done.

seanluciotolentino commented 8 years ago

Lucio, seanluciotolentino@gmail.com, waking up early and not being crabby about it

okdistribute commented 8 years ago

Woohoo! sounds fun

gfleetwood commented 8 years ago

Hello,

Name: Gordon Fleetwood Email: gordonfleetwood@yahoo.com Superpower: Stoicism

mikedillion commented 8 years ago

Name: Mike Dillion Email: mike.dillion@gmail.com

benmoss commented 8 years ago

Ben Moss citygramrulez@mossity.com Ability to destroy peoples entire notion of self-worth with a single eye roll

SokhnaVor commented 8 years ago

Sokhna Vor sokhna.sea@gmail.com Ability to strategize and reach goals in seconds.

noneck commented 8 years ago

@dirkkelly, @fma2, @excepttheweasel, @mashcode, @fattyduck, @tomca32, @seanluciotolentino, @karissa, @gfleetwood @mikedillion @benmoss

You should have an email in your inbox. Please read it b/c it contains important details about this weekend's event.

This is a copy of the email, but it doesn't contain how to get into the building.

Tomorrow at Noon, we're meeting at Data & Society. Please bring a laptop, power supply, and be there at noon.

Data & Society is located at 36 West 20th Street, 11th Floor, New York NY 10011

We will start off with a bit of collective training. We'll focus on the day's objectives and host a conversation around NYC 311. Then, we will break off into small groups / pair-programming to develop scripts.

@dirkkelly has created an example of the work we will be producing. < https://github.com/BetaNYC/citygram-services-nyc/pull/29 >

If you have any issue getting into the building, call me at 937.218.2422.

PS - We'll have coffee, but come fed. Around 4, we'll order dinner.

dirkkelly commented 8 years ago

Cheers @noneck, looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

json2d commented 8 years ago

Name: Jason Yung Email: json.yung@gmail.com Superpower: Efficenc

MasterXyu commented 8 years ago

Andrey Scherbinin, nycsqllab@gmail.com Never late lol