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Ship It Weekend 2015 Event Summary

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The goal for our first ever Ship It Weekend was to create a comfortable space for teams and new civic hackers to push forward on existing projects. Our sponsors graciously provided fast wifi, good food, and coffee. All key ingredients for productive civic hacking.

Here's a summary of some of the achievements of our various projects over the two day hack:

The Open Street Map (OSM) Import Team split public domain building data amongst 776 census block groups that represent an individual task (unit of work). They have now managed to finish 208 out of 776 tasks (about 25%).

Recycling ATX is a webapp for reporting buildings that do not comply with Austin's Universal Recycling Ordinance. They extended the backend API and made progress on the front end of their app.

Texas Appleseed continued working on a map of discipline statistics by school districts in Texas. They worked on making it easier to filter map views on classroom removals and the use of school police and court to address student behavior. These map visualizations are being included in their new School-to-Prison Pipeline awareness website. The site is still under development but can be viewed on their demo host.

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The Open Data Progress Report got an upgrade to display better on mobile browsers.

The City of Austin Socrata Data Portal Analysis Team is building a program that fetches summary information from the City’s open data portal and organizes it for analysis. They refactored their code so that other cities can use it, and added a feature to fetch the list of resources from Socrata. As of right now, when you run the program, it generates a csv with summary data from the data portal. View their program Github.

The Digital ATX team is creating an inventory of programs and locations that offer computer labs and training offerings. They worked on some UI elements of the profile page, and location inventory page.

 

Screen Shot 2015-11-29 at 10.45.38 PMThe Transitime team is making the deployment of the OpenAustin Transitime fork more stable. They created a simple Bash script to clean up the GTFS zip data provided by Capmetro.

Instabus is a webapp that shows where buses are in Austin. The team worked to modernize the Instabus code to use React, Immutable.js, and Redux. They also began a redesign of the user interface to work better on mobile.

Austin Park Equity aims to increase equitable park access with maps thatt help visualize how Austin's park resources are distributed throughout the City of Austin. The team worked on a node.js script to import census data from CensusReporter.org and thought about data architecture to import park GIS data from a unified source (looking at you Open Street Map) to pair better with Austin Green Map.

The Open Austin Policy Team added some items to our Google Doc of upcoming policy priorities.

Screen Shot 2015-11-29 at 10.52.16 PM The Open Austin Logo design group created a bunch of doodles, sketches and drafts of a new OA logo.

The Open Austin Website Redesign group worked on turning design mockups into functioning templates for the header, homepage, blogs. They also began content migration of existing OA articles.

Thanks to everyone that came and participated at Ship It Weekend!

Ship it group photo

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