[OpenGovChicago] Next Meeting: one week from tonight?

[Joe Germuska]

Are folks still out there? I had to check the archives to verify that I'd actually sent the note where I mentioned that I have an Alderman or two for our June meeting.

Does anyone want to get "on the agenda" for this week, to demonstrate something, or raise a topic? Is anyone bringing Gov IT guests or folks from community organizations?

We're feeling a little anemic, I'm afraid.

Joe

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[Matt Hampel]

One idea would be to have a working session, with us writing
documentation about issues (state of TIF reporting, election
transparency, anything that catches interest) independently or in
small groups and then reporting back. A way to catch up on the state
of multiple topics at once, produce some signs of life for the
website, and maybe get some next actions.

I also wanted to mention that my train gets in around 4:30-ish that
Wednesday, so my luggage and I would be able to make a meeting.

-Matt

[Juan-Pablo Velez]

Matt's idea sounds good.

I'd also like to pitch the idea using the wiki as a lightweight data catalog / knowledge pool. We're all looking for and working with data in isolation, and I think it would be really useful to capture our knowledge and know-how for the benefit of all. 

An example would be.. Hey I just FOIA'd this data set from the CTA, here are the hoops I had to jump through to do it, here are some other data sets that I know about, and (possibly, i know there are issues involved in this) here is a copy of said data.

Of course, it would be more systematic and formalized than that, but you get the idea.

Thoughts?

- Juan

[Christopher Groskopf]

I'm hesitant to gesture in the direction of the lime-light, but there
seemed to be some interest my project, Safecity, at the last meeting.
I'd be more than happy to talk about that for n minutes (where n is
greater than 3 minutes and less than 30). I'm afraid I don't have
much else to offer by way of lending concreteness to the basic agenda
we discussed at the last meeting.

Chris

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Christopher Groskopf
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News Applications Developer
Chicago Tribune

[jjcappleman@yahoo]

I'm more focused right now on SeeClickFix.com which incorporates technology to address 311 issues in a more transparent and efficient manner.
James

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[Juan-Pablo Velez]

following up on the data catalog idea: http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2010/04/in-need-of-a-documentcloud-for-video-data113.html

[Justin Massa]

are we going to be here at MCIC again? happy to host but be warned that it will be a little warm in the room...