Public Meetings

A project to aggregate public civic meetings available in Wichita to a single location. It is powered by:

• Scrapers in python (check the prototype-web-scraping branch)
• Web app with Elixir, Phoenix and PostgreSQL

To get involved be sure to join the Open Wichita slack and hop in to the #public-meetings channel.

Also make sure to check the issues!

View temporary meeting list with latest updates http://public-meetings.website/meetings

To get started:

• Install elixir
  • Alternatively: use asdf with the erlang and elixir plugins.
• cd to the project directory and install dependencies with mix deps.get
• Create and migrate your database with mix ecto.create && mix ecto.migrate
• Install Node.js dependencies with npm install
• Seed the database with meeting data: mix run priv/repo/seeds.exs
• Start Phoenix endpoint with mix phoenix.server

Now you can visit localhost:4000 from your browser.

Learn more about Phoneix!

• Official website: http://www.phoenixframework.org/
• Guides: http://phoenixframework.org/docs/overview
• Docs: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix
• Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/phoenix-talk
• Source: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix

Meetings scraped/aggregated so far:

• Council
  • Regular
  • Consent Workshop
• Mayor's Briefings
• City Agenda Review
• County Commission
• County Staff
• Metropolitan Area Planning Commission
• Board of Education
  • Regular
  • Committee of the Whole
  • 99% Awards
  • Good Apples
  • Special
  • Year-End Meeting
• Airport Board
• Animal Control Advisory Board
• Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Board
• Board of Code Standards
  • Board of Electrical Appeals
• Building Board
• District Advisory Boards
  • I - VI
• Mechanical Board
• Park Board
• Plumbers and Gas fitters Board Of Appeals
• Subdivision and Utility Advisory
• Wichita Transit Advisory Board
• League of Women Voters
• Wichita Pachyderm Club