My overview of a hack done for the recent GovHack event. This was a presentation done at SydPHP in June 2012 in the combined RewiredState event

1. GovHack
Hacking govenment data
(Good hacking)

2. Hacking
What is it?
Why do it?
What to create?

3. The Team
Desmond Horsley Graham Weldon
C# PHP
Java Javascript
SQL Server MySQL
C#
1st Year Student Java
B.Engineering(Software) Graduate
15 Years building software

4. Skill Sets
Desmond Graham

5. Skill Sets
Desmond Graham

6. Skill Sets
Desmond Graham
Success lives here.

7. Confidence

8. Confidence
Desmond
Graham

9. Organised plan

10. The master plan!!
Idea! 30 minutes
Building Core Polishing
Product and Improving
1 day 1day
Present! 3 minutes

11. Get to it!

12. 30 minutes later
... no ideas
:-(

13. No worries!
Plenty of time left

14. 6 hours later
F*%#
Still no formalised ideas

15. Get some sleep
We’ll do better in the morning

16. 6 hours into day 2
WTF?!

17. An IDEA!
Yes! Lets get cracking!

18. End of day 2
Idea FAILED
- Partly us
- Partly poor data

19. Take 2 The final idea!
Its going to work this time!!
Promise...

25. Route Me
Team: Timeless Travellers
Desmond Horsley
Graham Weldon

26. Concept

27. Looking for a bus

28. New to the area?
Tourist?

29. Don’t know where you are.
You know where you want to do

30. Implementation

31. Data & Technology

32. Web Browser Twitter Client
Twitter
Responder
Webapp
+
(Maps)
Timeline
Reader
Gov
REST API Service
Data

33. Delivery of Government Data
via REST API
Making data accessible
Making data consumable

34. ACT Bus Data
Real position data linked with
route information

35. Social Media Integration
Making data cool!

36. THANKS!
Don’t forget to give us lots of votes,
or just cash is fine too.

37. http://govhack.org
http://github.com/predominant/RouteMe