Projects
Edit this pageTo view our project ideas, or to propose a project idea, open an issue in our GitHub issue tracker. If you’re not familiar with GitHub, feel free to contact us instead. Our project ideas can include requests for help from local nonprofits or government entities, requests to participate in existing civic-oriented open source projects, or original ideas from Open Austin participants.
Getting Involved
Check out our active project ideas or all project ideas, and choose one to work on or add your own. You can also check our experimental list of issues needing technical help, or view more information about our project process.
Project Gallery
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Website allowing event organizers and businesses to verify that someone has received a Covid-19 vaccine by scanning a QR code issued by an approved health organization. -
Scraper that extracts eviction hearing records from the Travis County Justice of the Peace website -
Open source software licenses with fossil fuel divestment provisions -
A series of research reports on the effects of density-related zoning decisions in Austin, in partnership with AURA -
A small utility designed to help organizations retrieving traffic fatality data in a friendly manner. -
Integrating siloed datasets, and exposing this data through an API that allows government agencies, nonprofits, and private companies to deliver it as a resource. -
Provide a complete resource for info about TX legislators, bills, donors, and policy areas. Enable citizens to scrutinize how lawmakers are serving them. -
Contributing to a national project focused on collecting and standardizing state legislative bills -
An experiment with data visualization for the city's lobbyists registration database -
An effort to open up the Travis County Appraisal District (TCAD) appraisal roll data -
A web literacy project designed to help educators and teens evaluate online news for credibility and trust -
Web app that teaches about the City Budget and invites you to remix how departments and services are funded -
This project shows users which buildings in Austin, TX do not recycle. The application was developed in partnership with the City of Austin to enforce the Universal Recycling Ordinance set to go in effect Oct 1st, 2017. -
Informational resource for advocacy groups interested in Body Cam policies in Austin. -
Austin's City Manager kicked off an "Open Data Initiative 2.0" in April 2015, here are the results -
Map of Austin's parks that is easy to search and works offline. -
Policy guides, research materials, and maps about injustices in the "school to prison pipeline" -
CapMetrics is a go/python project that collects and archives all of CapMetro's realtime vehicle positions on GitHub. This allows you to do fancy analysis, like http://seancascketta.com/CapMetrics/. -
Austin Park Equity is an open-source project that aims to increase equitable park access. Our maps help visualize how Austin's park resources are distributed throughout the City of Austin. -
Instabus is a realtime map of Austin's public transit. It works well on mobile and desktop. -
A "Twitter bot" that posts a random adoptable pet from the Austin Animal Center. -
"How-To" tutorials that show basic and common tasks on the City of Austin Open Data Portal. -
Current flood information and emergency road closures in Austin and partner communities in Central Texas.
