February 2018

ATTENDEES

Sean, Santiago, Brian Donahue, Taylor Wiley (Co-Captain!), Russell, Vincent, Brian (Michigan City), Annica, Vered, Sue Kesim, Bruce Miller, Bill, Dan (The), Wayne

CLASS IDEAS

• Platform and Stacks

  • Git / GitHub (Chris)

  • Data scraping [https://scrapy.org]

    • David Guthrie?

  • Practical Docker (Sean)

  • Serverless: nodejs and/or python or CRUD/MEAN stack (Russell) vs. OpenAPI (aka The Swagger) (Sean)

• Tools

  • Mapping - Data to Maps - Ryan Deline @ MACOG[http://leafletjs.com, https://socrata.com/blog/socrata-drives-civic-innovation-support-code-america-peer-network/\]

  • Blockchains (4 types?)

  • R (Taylor)

  • Hadoop / Tableau (instructor tbd)

    • Taylor has some experience with Tableau

    • Park Cummins from Ciber is an expert on Hadoop

• Applications

  • Cumo - App Development

  • VPN

  • Podcasting

PROJECT IDEAS

• WriteMyLaw.com - “Old Business”

  • HM never finished/helped with this - still stuff to do on it.

  • All 50 states; need help finding links

  • Best practices for ordinances -- bring it back to citizens

• Restaurant Sustainability - Work with IUSB Sustainability Club [contact?]

  • Rate local restaurants bronze/silver/gold -- needs to be cleaned up

  • Send surveys out to restaurants

  • Provide as a data set / navigation

  • SNS project in disguise???

  • T: I do not have direct contacts to the Sustainability Club, but I know two of two people who likely do

    • Krista Bailey

    • Zach Schrank

  • City has food truck data, county has other

• Chip + Tag - The number of shelter dogs could be substantially reduced if people microchip and have a ten digit phone number tag on their dog. Nationwide this could save millions of dollars and animals. Contact Fab4dogs.com

  • Reach out to the public to educate on tags.

• Opioid Epidemic Grant Project with IUSB

  • Assist researchers with data access, querying, and modelling the data needed to find local impacts on the community

• AT&T Grant money, around $5k - $10k for projects?

• City collaboration

  • The data portal needs education materials for how it can be utilized

  • Santiago mentioned Best Week Ever and the opportunities during that

    • Follow up on that?

  • Opportunities for overlaying county data with city data and creating heat maps

SEMINAR FEEDBACK SURVEY QUESTIONS

• Where did you learn about the seminar?

• What would you use an AWS account for?

• Would you be interested in a certification event?

• What kinds of classes do you want to see in the future?

• Was the day and time convenient to you?

• Do you have suggestions for the next seminar?

BRIEF NOTE ABOUT NEXT MONTH'S MEETING

We may possibly have next month's meeting at HeadQuarters Coworking as opposed to IUSB.