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Show what boards a councilmember serves on. #85

Open wendyfongsf opened 9 years ago

wendyfongsf commented 9 years ago

Glover or Luna suggested: "Overview of councilmember should include advisory boards that people are a member of."

techieshark commented 9 years ago

Below are some examples of the boards they sit on. How should we display this?

Richins

City Council General and Economic Development Committee Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Community and Neighborhood Services Committee City Council Study Session Enterprise Zone Commission Mesa Housing Authority Governing Board Local Redevelopment Authority Government Affairs Committee Community and Cultural Development Committee City Council Strategic Planning Session Eastmark Community Facilities District No. 1 Board Economic Development Committee Audit, Finance and Enterprise Committee

Finter

City Council General and Economic Development Committee Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Intergovernmental Affairs Committee Enterprise Zone Commission Mesa Housing Authority Governing Board Local Redevelopment Authority Joint Meeting of the Economic Development Council Sub-Committee and Economic Development Advisory Board City Council Strategic Planning Session Eastmark Community Facilities District No. 1 Board City Council Study Session Audit, Finance and Enterprise Committee Economic Development Committee Public Safety Committee

Kavanaugh

City Council Public Safety Committee Intergovernmental Affairs Committee Community and Neighborhood Services Committee City Council Study Session Enterprise Zone Commission Mesa Housing Authority Governing Board Local Redevelopment Authority Joint Meeting of the Economic Development Council Sub-Committee and Economic Development Advisory Board Sustainability and Transportation Committee Community and Cultural Development Committee City Council Strategic Planning Session Eastmark Community Facilities District No. 1 Board"

techieshark commented 9 years ago

@wendyfongsf two questions I have here are: who wants to see this, and why? (To put another way, "what is the user need?")

There's a good discussion of what I mean in the UX Stack Exchange, from which I also found this fun quote from Henry Ford:

If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said 'Faster Horses'. -Henry Ford

While I like the idea of including this information, it can already be found on Legistar and I wouldn't want to duplicate that. So before we do anything on this, I think we need to know more about a) who will use this, b) what are they trying to accomplish, c) what is wrong with the interface on Legistar, and d) how could we present it in a way that is different than Legistar and better accomplishes whatever the user's goal is.

I could use help tracking down answers to those questions.