Brainstorm ideas for small projects / workshops / etc appropriate for brigade meetups

[bradweikel]

The idea is to try to accumulate some small-wins and make our meetups a lot more fun by organizing a particular meetup around a specific project or learning activity.

So let's brainstorm:

Mini projects

• Get search analytics data from the city, analyze the data, write up a FAQ to help people find the most commonly searched pages. Alternatively, think about some sort of dashboard or something that might serve the same purpose without requiring people to go to the FAQ first.
• Choose a city data set with geo data, and just get it up on a map then start adding some sort of interesting filtering, search or visualization.
• Replicate austinparkequity.com ? This is almost certainly too large in scope for this discussion, but it's a great project.
• Build a static site with minimalist breakdown of local zoning rules. Another brigade did something like this in 2015, maybe focused on agricultural zoning.
• Spend a day sprinting on other brigade's "help wanted" issues, via the Civic Tech Issue Finder
• Build an open source alternative to ImagineThat, if Adam isn't going to open source it soon, and port ImagineABQ's data over
• Deploy any of the recommended projects from the Hackspace at the 2015 Summit:
  • port Citygram to Albuquerque
  • port click-that-hood (a game to learn neighborhood names)
  • Complete the Service Census
  • Update our Open Data Census
  • Explore the CitySDK for small project ideas

Mini workshops

• Web-mapping basics (a series)
  • Basic Open Street Map editing (targeted or with Maproulette)
  • Basics of leaflet.js
  • Basics of mapbox
  • what else? some of this is obviously more appropriate for MaptimeABQ rather than Code for ABQ, but we can cross-pollinate
• Build a twitter bot (I recently learned that there is actually someone in NM who builds LOTS of Twitter bots (as activism / performance art) and could totally rock this. If we decide to do this I'll track him/her down on Twitter.)

@Smallmelo: your turn!

[Smallmelo]

Mini projects

• Review a new city dataset and write a blog about it, such as CRM data. Questions we ask could include: what attributes are included in the dataset? what could be done with the dataset? what are pain points for accessing it?
• Create an infographic from a the details of a city dataset
• Citizen onboarding
• Journey maps

Mini workshops

• Pandas 101: learn the python library by munging a city dataset
• Community asset mapping
• City council meeting: watch the latest recording or have someone go to the meetings and report back
• Presentations from civic-related orgs (so that the group can understand what others in the sphere are doing)

[Smallmelo]

@bradweikel should we plan on the entire meeting next week to discuss ndoch? if not, I'd like to propose that we do a review of the city's crm dataset, mentioned above.

I want to update the meetup page with next week's plan.