Next Meeting Nov. 11 6:30 pm

Hi all,

We’re going to hold our next Open Tucson meeting on Thursday, November 11 at 6:30pm at Spoke 6. (map)

If anyone has anything they want to talk about, let me know! For now, this is a list of possible/likely topics:

1. review of new developments in gov 2.0 world, i.e. new cool apps, etc. Andrew just got back from the OpenCities conference, and will give a quick report on:
   • Front Porch Forum:

     http://frontporchforum.com/

   • Localocracy:

     http://www.localocracy.org/#

   • Groundcrew:

     http://groundcrew.us/

   • Simpl:

     http://www.simpl.co/

   • Give A Minute:
     http://giveaminute.info/ and more generallyhttp://bigthink.com/ideas/24819
2. quick look at chumby / next steps for busted: Is this the app we want to move forward with as our pilot project? If so, what does it need to be ready? Who wants to shop it around to business owners, or determine which businesses might make a good test site? If not, what other project might we have the resources to work on? Some ideas include:
   • Environmental Services: Work with the City on adding the calendar/alert functions to our pickup schedule web app to mirror something like Vancouver’s VanTrash:
   • http://vantrash.ca/
   • SeeClickFix: build a dashboard to publicize and analyze the data already collected to show trends, to rank most common issues, to recognize for most active citizens, etc.
   • Opening Data: Work with the City to develop some open data streams so we can participate in DotGov’s project:
     http://dotgov.com/2010/10/winning-partner-cities-announced/  Tucson’s been selected to be a “Partner City” but we need the data streams to participate.
   • More Opening Data:  Work with the City to develop its new dashboard and open the data streams that fuel it.  It uses all kinds of real time demographic, financial and other data to illustrate the City’s position and they say it will be used to guide policy and process.
3. how things look for the city and gov 2.0 in light of budget woes.
4. follow up with phoenix group / city camp?

Spoke 6 is a co-working space run by Tim Bowen. We will have a projector, and there’s an (empty) refrigerator that keeps beer nice and cold.