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portland housing data #40

Closed ungoldman closed 9 years ago

ungoldman commented 9 years ago

Hi Max,

tl;dr: Catherine from Hack Oregon and Connor from the HUD PDX field office want to invite you and me to lunch and talk about quality and availability of housing data in Portland.

Connor wants to do something in Portland similar to the upcoming Seattle Housing Hackathon but more focused on helping low-income families and the homeless (paraphrasing, Connor can elaborate). Catherine is working on a "storytelling with data" project about urban development in coordination with the U of O Journalism School. They want to invite both of us to lunch some time in the next couple of weeks to talk more about it. I'm going to try to help both projects through Code for Portland. Let me know if this is something you'd be into.

Also here is a portrait of a tsarist cat.

ungoldman commented 9 years ago

@Caged ^ I know you've spent some time messing with Portland housing datasets. The folks involved in the projects above could use some guidance as to what's out there and what's useful for what they're doing. I bet you've got some pretty good insight if you've got a little time to spare.

max-mapper commented 9 years ago

@ngoldman im down pretty much any time, lemme know when

caged commented 9 years ago

@ngoldman Sounds interesting. Most of the work I've done has been with the building dataset (e.g. data on the physical structures), but happy to help if I can.

ungoldman commented 9 years ago

@maxogden @Caged cool, thanks. It looks from their end that schedules will align around:

/cc @catnik

caged commented 9 years ago

The 12th might be a little difficult for me, but the other dates look fine.

catnik commented 9 years ago

13th and the 20th are great for me.

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Justin Palmer notifications@github.com wrote:

The 12th might be a little difficult for me, but the other dates look fine.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/maxogden/messages/issues/40#issuecomment-72556693.

Catherine Nikolovski Executive Director 503 407 2963

catnik commented 9 years ago

I've got a phone meeting with Julia Thompson tomorrow, director of Portland Planning and Sustainability. If we can get a date nailed down I'll invite her too.

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Catherine Nikolovski < cat.nikolovski@gmail.com> wrote:

13th and the 20th are great for me.

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Justin Palmer notifications@github.com wrote:

The 12th might be a little difficult for me, but the other dates look fine.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/maxogden/messages/issues/40#issuecomment-72556693.

Catherine Nikolovski Executive Director 503 407 2963

Catherine Nikolovski Executive Director 503 407 2963

ungoldman commented 9 years ago

I vote 13th because it is the spookiest.

connorjmcd commented 9 years ago

The 13th works for me. I can meet during the day or at night. I'm open.

max-mapper commented 9 years ago

13th is good for me

connorjmcd commented 9 years ago

Sounds like we are all in for the 13th. Headed up to Seattle now. Of interest, here are a few data links from HUD for the Zillow Hackathon: http://hudegis.github.io/ & http://zillowhack.hud.opendata.arcgis.com/

ungoldman commented 9 years ago

As @connorjmcd says, I believe we have reached a quorum and settled on the 13th as the optimum date. If it pleases the court I would like to offer the following suggestions for our meeting:

max-mapper commented 9 years ago

bullet point 1 sounds good

caged commented 9 years ago

Meeting at Esri :+1:

catnik commented 9 years ago

Awesome. Noon?

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Catherine Nikolovski < cat.nikolovski@gmail.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','cat.nikolovski@gmail.com');> wrote:

13th and the 20th are great for me.

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Justin Palmer <notifications@github.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','notifications@github.com');> wrote:

The 12th might be a little difficult for me, but the other dates look fine.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/maxogden/messages/issues/40#issuecomment-72556693.

Catherine Nikolovski Executive Director 503 407 2963

Catherine Nikolovski Executive Director 503 407 2963

Catherine Nikolovski Executive Director 503 407 2963

connorjmcd commented 9 years ago

I'll be there. Noon. Friday 13th @ ESRI.
Without conflating this discussion wanted to get your thoughts on this City SDK concept: w/http://t.co/NJvkUSb3Jp

catnik commented 9 years ago

For Friday's lunch, I also invited Caleb Winter (strategy planner @TriMet) and Andrew DeVigal (UofO School of Journalism) and Erin Aigner (Content strategist @Second Story, but also a GIS/ maps person). Should be a great room, looking forward to it!

Here's an event I just made live: you are all invited, and feel free to invite more great people if the spirit moves you.

storymakers.eventbrite.com http://storymakers.eventbrite.com

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Nate Goldman notifications@github.com wrote:

@maxogden https://github.com/maxogden @Caged https://github.com/Caged cool, thanks. It looks from their end that schedules will align around:

  • Thursday, 2/12
  • Friday, 2/13
  • Monday, 2/16
  • Wednesday, 2/18
  • Friday, 2/20

/cc @catnik https://github.com/catnik

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Catherine Nikolovski Executive Director 503 407 2963

ungoldman commented 9 years ago

Thanks @catnik. That's already 8 people total so I'd like to set that as the limit to make sure the conversation is productive and everyone is able to participate.

catnik commented 9 years ago

Got it ;)

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Nate Goldman notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks @catnik https://github.com/catnik. That's already 8 people total so I'd like to set that as the limit to make sure the conversation is productive and everyone is able to participate.

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Catherine Nikolovski Executive Director 503 407 2963

connorjmcd commented 9 years ago

Great meeting everyone on Friday.

Here are a few links to follow up on our discussion:

Looking forward to seeing where this takes us...(Nate once you create a repository, I'll start plugging in data sets.)

ungoldman commented 9 years ago

Hi everybody! Thanks again for taking the time to meet last Friday. I've made a repository on Github to help gather housing datasets and information on the different projects we talked about.

https://github.com/CodeForPortland/housing

I've thrown together a starting point but there's plenty to add. Feel free to edit the README and open a pull request to add or change what's there, or create an issue to discuss something or ask if you want help adding or changing anything. Feel free to email me directly with questions, criticisms, demands, etc.

catnik commented 9 years ago

We've finally got a lot of our list of projects and roles more clearly defined for the workshop.

Here's the google doc with all the basic info. Feel free to share it!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VL_xrg5We_3yRdehWUYN548W63gARjoQiyD5QO0aCZs/edit?usp=sharing

Justin, Max--- I wanted to follow up to see if/where/how you would like to be involved. (There are a few team spots I didn't list that I think might be a good fit for each of you, but I'm happy anywhere you feel inspired)

If you're interested, there's a more in-depth doc I can share with very specific project information and running team lists.

Actually I can just tell you the media partners now:

Earthquake: OPB Innovation Economy: Portland Business Journal Education: Oregonian Campaign Finance: Willamette Week Sustainable Housing: Portland Mercury Story of the Story: W+K and Premier Press

ungoldman commented 9 years ago

Closing this as everything has happened. Thanks all!