Welcome to Transit Developers Puget Sound

[Brian Ferris]

Hey everybody,

We've got a pretty good number of people on the list at this point (26), so I think it's time to kick off a discussion on where to go next.

Encouraging a local transit developer community likely means different things to all of us, but I think a few first steps would make a great start:

1) Establish a place to list existing developer resources like data sources, documentation, links, code, existing projects, and other resources.
2) Establish a place to ask questions of other developers.

I think this mailing list could easily satisfy #2.  I also think the "Pages" feature of this mailing list, which acts like a basic wiki, could satisfy #1 if we open up page editing to all list members.

Any thoughts?

Either way, I've got a bunch of resources from OneBusAway that I'd like to share.  Keep your eyes open for a post in the near-term.

Thanks,
Brian

[Rob LaRubbio]

I think using the features of google groups works, but I remember one thing people asked for at the meeting was a place to share code as well.  I don't think google groups provides that, but we could always just provide pointers to github, googlecode or sourceforge.

Thanks for taking the initiative in setting this up.

-Rob

[Brian Ferris]

I agree.  I figure most code-sharing will be on an ad-hoc basis: either sharing links to existing code at an existing project host, posting snippets of code to the mailing list, or posting a few files at one of the project hosts you mentioned.

Brian

[Jeff Dubrule]

Speaking of code-sharing...

I'm almost done a C#/LINQ library that will let you access all of the GTFS data from an object-model, which retrieves from the database as needed.

Also included will be a program that can automatically create the DB tables & constraints, and import all of the data we got on the CD-ROM.

Once this is done, I'd be happy to post it somewhere for others to use as a jumping-off-point.

-jeff

[Tom Richards]

Unfortunately I had to miss the meeting because of a work meeting.  I was really looking forward to it.  Sounds like there was a lot of shared information that I'm sorry to have missed.  I like this idea of a developer community/group.

The onebusaway code, or at least a version of it is on google code.  Maybe that could still work, another project maybe a respository.  svn is free but the code needs to under one of the open source licenses.

Tom Richards

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