Code for Tulsa brigadier joins Mayor-Elect GT Bynum's staff!

[Luke Crouch]

Code for Tulsa members,

James Wagner - a long-time Code for Tulsa member and supporter - has been selected by GT Bynum to oversee a new department at the city: the Performance and Innovation Office.

More details on Mayor-Elect Bynum's staff here:

https://www.readfrontier.com/spotlight/mayor-elect-bynum-announces-young-diverse-10-member-team-includes-political-veteran-kathy-taylor/

If you don't know, James was involved in our very first Hack Day, before Code for Tulsa existed. He connected us with a Tulsa Transit staffer to get the MTTA schedule data so that we could transform it into GTFS. And he promoted that project with Carlos Moreno until it finally launched on Google Maps!

Most recently, he connected Code for Tulsa, Tulsa Transit, and Tulsa Public Schools together to work on the project to promote Tulsa Transit's free ridership to TPS students.

I have no doubt that James will bring the same kind of innovative, tech-savvy projects and solutions to city hall across all departments.

So congrats James, and congrats Code for Tulsa!

-L

[Paul Johnson]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 7:43 AM, Luke Crouch <luke....@gmail.com> wrote:

If you don't know, James was involved in our very first Hack Day, before Code for Tulsa existed. He connected us with a Tulsa Transit staffer to get the MTTA schedule data so that we could transform it into GTFS. And he promoted that project with Carlos Moreno until it finally launched on Google Maps!

Well, ain't that neat!  I'm still hoping to, at some point, get the Tulsa Transit, GTFS and OSM ideas of the system synchronized, just not sure how to pull it off in anything resembling a timely fashion since a lot of it's going to take by-hand tweaking of data.