A place to collect and discuss Code for OKC project ideas.
This is the static site for codeforokc.org.
To start, ensure you have the following installed:
We have added a handy script for hosting the static site locally. First install the npm dependencies:
npm install
Then you have a couple options for serving the site. You can host out the current contents:
npm start
Or you can host it out and automatically watch for local changes:
npm run dev
Licensed under the MIT License.
We need to document the state of open data in Oklahoma City. This web site categorizes and allows you to rate the data and ranks us along with other cities.
The project will be ongoing and needs to be refreshed at least every year.
TBD
This will give residents and the city visibility at a high level of what data is open and what is not. It will hopefully lead to more data being made public.
Ongoing production project
The idea is to open up the city budget data and visualize it in meaningful ways. Here are some visualizations that could be useful:
Another win in this project would be to have the raw budget data available to the public in a machine readable format (probably CSV). Right now it is only available via an Open Records Request.
The main inspiration for this project is Open Budget Oakland. Some other examples:
The target audience will be the residents of Oklahoma City. Both for visualization purposes and the opening of the data.
The project is currently in active development.
Code for America is asking all brigades to participate in the Local Digital Services Census during the CodeAcross 2015 hackathon.
The data was entered on their site and the results are now available here: https://service-census.herokuapp.com/
This is intended to provide information and data to Code for America to help them learn more about city web sites.
Complete
We have never developed a real logo, and would like to kick off an initiative to do so. This will help us develop a brand that represents us and allows us to use it across web sites, stickers, shirts, etc.
TBD
I am working on gathering some ideas from other Code for America Brigades.
Everyone! ;-)
Currently in the research phase.
While Oklahoma City does currently have on Open Data Portal, it is limited to mostly GIS data and there is no official policy that data must be open. We would like to change that by following the lead of other cities and proposing an Open Data Policy. This would outline that all data that can be provided to the public should be available via the Open Data Portal. Examples of data currently not available:
Some details about what is and is not available can be found on the U.S. City Open Data Census site: http://us-city.census.okfn.org/place/oklahoma%20city
Code for Tulsa was able to work with their city council and pass an official Open Data Policy. They outlined the process in a blog post here: http://codefortulsa.org/2014/09/25/tulsas-open-data-policy-what-we-learned/
Code for America has a page with resources about Open Data here: https://www.codeforamerica.org/practices/open/open-data/
Having more data available to the public can lead to a more informed public. The data could be looked at and visualized in interesting ways, such as what we are doing with Open Budget OKC.
Currently working on a draft of an initial Open Data Policy.
The 2016 election has shown once again how long it can take to stand in line to vote early. This year seems to have made the issue worse because of more limited locations. It would be interesting to find data about how long people stood in lines at the various early voting locations.
With that data, we could put together an infographic style single page site with the info and a pre-built sample message to use to contact your representative to advocate for more early polling locations and times.
We could also promote absentee ballots as well, which you can sign up for online.
TBD
If you find any resources, share them in Slack or on this thread and I will add them here.
Any resident could benefit from shorter lines, and making it easier to vote could help engage more people to vote.
Right now we need people to research whether the data needed is available somewhere. Once we have that we can make a decision on what to do about it.
Currently in a research phase.
Our web site has been the same ever since we launched Code for OKC over 2 years ago. It is currently text only with no color and lacking a lot of information.
Some of the details that I would like to see added:
TBD
Some other brigade's web sites that I like:
Anyone looking to attend or get information about Code for OKC. I'm guessing that most people visiting are site are new people looking to get involved.
Research
At a recent meeting with the city Zach Nash (Creative Manager for the city) proposed opening up the analytics for okc.gov. He would like our assistance to see if this is feasible and if we could put together a prototype. I would like to put up an open analytics dashboard for our sites (public site, open budget okc).
TBD
The suggested open source software was created by 18F and is currently running a few dashboards:
The repositories are located here:
City staff will have greater insight in to how the web site is being used and at the same time it will be open and available to the public.
Experimenting with this code running for the Code for OKC web sites first.
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