On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 20:06 -0400, Trever Fischer wrote: > On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 19:48 -0400, Persa Zula wrote: > > Hey hackers, > > > > As you know, Code for Summit County (a Code for America Brigade), has > > been meeting at SynHak lately to work on SummitWiki, and soon other > > civic hacking/open data projects. As a group, we've been encouraged to > > participate in the National Day(s) of Civic Hacking on June 1st & 2nd, > > and I have funding to run an event. Now, it's up to us to decide what > > we'll focus on during the two days. I'd like to get another project > > under our belt aside from SummitWiki, so building out or redeploying an > > existing Code for America app is a feasible option. Mapping out wireless > > access in Akron has been suggested, as well as tracking foot traffic in > > the Metroparks to create real data on usage. I'd like to hear your > > thoughts about what you'd like to see done in the realm of civic hacking > > & open data in Summit County. > > > > Let the great ideas roll! > > * A day of gps logs to figure out why our buses are so late. I'm looking > at you, route 7. > * Building some small infrared dataloggers to approximate foot traffic > numbers at the metropark trail entrances > * Creating a website dedicated to Akron area events
Here's another crazy idea: We all stand at intersections downtown and ask people at red lights where they're going and where they're coming from. We use this to build a kind of map showing why downtown traffic is so terribad. The SYNHAK traffic study! > > > Also, I am totally 100% for a day of wireless mapping. Even if we don't > do it on those days, I will plan to do this this summer. > > > Persa > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
