ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Tom Feltner: Woodstock is moving the last 15 years of data to its portal by the end of the year. Licensing restrictions limit what source data can be made public. What aggregate data would be useful and what would be derivative?
- Barbara Iverson: Submit stories about Open Gov work in Chicago to Chicago Talks to help connect regular people on the street, “citizens” with civic projects and Open Gov work. Tell your story, and we’ll help you spread the word.
- Tom Tresser: Working to establish Civic Lab – Apps for Activists, Activist Speed Dating Night & The TIF Report projects.
- George Aye: Announcing the launch of a new crowd-designed transit app for the CTA.
- Francesca Rodriquez: Update on the City’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program
- Sharon Burns: The Field Museum, through a generous multi-year grant from the Grainger Foundation is developing new apps, ebooks and other outreach projects to enhance the revenues stream of the Museum. Are open scientific data sets interesting? Ideas welcome!
- Tom Kompare: I’d like see if anyone is interested exploring crime and place relationships. An investigation in the 49th Ward shows what may be significant relationships of crime with L stops and package liquor license locations. I need help to explore further.
- Derek Eder: Open City would like to announce our latest civic app: Crime in Chicago
- John Tolva: Update on the City’s Open 311 project
- Simeon Schnapper: Pilots in CPS today centering around youtopia.com
We’ve got a full boat of announcements– hopefully people will get a chance to review some of this material, which will help us get to the evening’s demos. Also: don’t forget that tonight is Urban Geeks at Villains (thanks, Justin Massa!)– there’s plenty of chit-chat to be had there, if you can make it.
DEMOS
- Jesse Bounds, one of the Code for America Chicago fellows, will bring us up to speed on what the team is working on now— aDaily Brief app and a national 311 labs website to facilitate collaboration around 311 apps— and what they have planned next— beta testing the city’s new open311 api, and releasing their 311 dashboard and service request tracker apps
- Jay Van Patten, Director of Web Services for the Chicago Public Schools, will demo their new school locator website and chat about why and how it was built. They’re building it all in-house using Google Maps, Google Fusion Tables, and open-source code written by members Chicago’s open gov community.
EFFLUVIA
- Bring ID and come early– the security is tight in this building
- If you’ve been to a meetup at the Chicago Community Trust before, keep in mind that we have moved to another building in the same Illinois Center complex– 225 N. Michigan, 22nd Floor
- Sammiches will be served. Come hungry