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Yippee! Now you can do a self-guided tour of Storefronts installations in South Lake Union with our fancy new app. Thanks to our friends at Code for Seattle, you can pull up information about the artists and learn more about their work as you walk around the gorgeous installations.
This app is built to grow and change as our Storefronts installations do, meaning that you'll have a lot of walking to do to soak up the art over the next few months!
Fun, holiday schedule, plans for the future, and getting more involved with CfS
Awesome meetup, buds
This week we had a special surprise visit from Sunlight Foundation folks, as well as participants in the awesome local training program Ada Developers Academy. And a lot of cool new faces in general!
There were some great additions to SeattleWiki, Josh Gerrish shared some details about the project he's working on: http://seattlewiki.net/Splitting_the_Bill, and I got a little hacking done on the seattle blogs project: https://github.com/sethvincent/seattle-blogs.
2013 schedule
Code for Seattle will have a slightly wonky schedule for the remainder of 2013 to allow for holiday schedules. The next Wednesday meetup will be on December 4. There's also a SeattleWiki write-a-thon on December 7. SeattleWiki is a year old! Celebrate with us by hanging out and writing/hacking on the wiki.
The future: 2014 events
We'll be back to doing weekly meetups starting January 8. We're also planning out some big events for 2014. You can see and help with that planning in action in our 2014 event schedule.
Get in on it
Will Scott and I are currently the main organizers of Code for Seattle, but there are other positions in the organization that need to be filled.
Check out this google doc about roles in organizations like Code for Seattle. If one of these roles speaks to you, or if you have an idea for a project or set of duties you'd like to take on related to Code for Seattle, let me know.
If you're interested in getting involved in Code for Seattle to help organize and lead events and projects I'd love to talk with you more. Email me (Seth Vincent) at svincent at codeforamerica.org
These are the search statistics from seattle.gov over the month of July. Hopefully these numbers can form a starting point for prioritizing high impact projects, and figuring out what data is currently the least accessible!
The video of Celya's talk on the bridge between open science and academia from our meetup this evening is available on youtube.
We're privileged to have huge amounts of support for open data and local champions for open science in Seattle!
Code for Seattle meetup #1 happened!
Some of the cool outcomes of the meeting:
This group got started!
Like-minded folks gathered for the purpose of hacking apps that use local data and increase civic engagement. Check out the wiki page for the meetup and the Code for Seattle ideas page on SeattleWiki.net.
We made plans for sustaining the group.
We'll be meeting the first and third Saturdays of each month. Next meetup is an edit-a-thon for SeattleWiki.net on March 2. Check out the event on meetup.com.
Coding happened!
Folks hacked on:
a ruby gem for the localwiki api
a node module for the localwiki api
a patch method for the node module request
and more! Add what you worked on to the wiki page for the meetup!
And the codeforseattle.org domain got set up!
