Civicapps

Top Needed Projects

• Bug tracker for devs working on civic apps and related projects
  • Redmine instances?
• Automated download and processing of data zips for pdxapi.com
• Mashups using pdxapi.com's JSON+REST interface, eg food carts
• Civicapps.org improvements (Drupal)
  • interface design improvements
  • feeds for ideas, sets
  • tweetbot for new ideas, sets
  • voting on datasets for those who downloaded them
  • wiki for each dataset
  • have dataset node reflect latest update
  • voting on wanted datasets that don't exist yet
  • document the civicapps.org dev process
  • add a wiki link (and/or wiki.civicapps.org redirect) to http://portlandwiki.org/Civicapps)
• City iPhone app
  • references civicrm
  • test harness, making easy for other cities to use
• City Blackberry app needs maintainer, bugs fixed
• City Android app - doesn't exist yet! build one!
• more real-time data
• low-hanging fruit data (Max's list here?)
• public access to the svn repo for civicapps.org
• policy efforts around opening data by default for new city projects/orgs
• UI for non-technical folks to search/mashup the data
• app store for civic apps
• city council meeting input - citizen voice
• portlandonline.com/gisdata/rlsmetadata.oregonmetro.gov (metadata viewer of datasets)
• dataviz tools for those w/o GIS tools (pdf of data overlays on maps)
• RSS feeds for datasets, ideas, & apps
• Twitter broadcasts of new datasets, ideas, & apps