Goal for Event

To leave with a feasible idea for a first civic tech project by the end of the evening, as well as having made a convincing argument for the value of open government and open data in improving quality of life – both through a talk and through a miniature civic app for getting in touch with your neighborhood association president (possibly using CityBook + Google Sheets).

Preliminary Notes/Possible Projects

Lightning talk re: working with Code for Greenville to build a real-time trolley tracker, and the need for any sort of real-time transit bus tracking system for CAT in Savannah. Have made contact with CAT and confirmed. Update: Grant Sparks of CAT can no longer make it, but I should be able to summarize his pitch for him. -CVL

Saja from PIO possibly willing to talk briefly about openness of City in working with us?

Visual Inspirations

Time and again, it seems that out-of-town software vendors have come in, signed multi-year contracts, then largely failed to do what they promised. Example: Company contracted by CAT still hasn’t followed through on any of its plans, and is hard to reach for support.

No more enterprise software companies!