Austin City Spotlight, Code for America Summit, 2012. Fellows: Joe Merante, Emily Wright, Aurelio Tinio, Matthew Esquibel

1. City Spotlight: Austin
Joe Merante, Aurelio Tinio, Emily Wright

2. photo attribution: mrflip

4. lead by example

6. emerging theme:
community

8. Austin
&
Wildfire

9. 1300+ homes destroyed

16. “This is such a neat resource for
our community! I had no idea
of all the hazards that lie just
outside our home or that there
were steps we could take to
prepare ourselves.”
- an email to
AFD via Prepared.ly

19. Open Data A diagram to illustrate the variety
Open Data A diagram to illustrate the variety
of different long term benefits
that open data can bring to a city,
and the different groups that can
Circle of Awesomeness provide expertise and input for
the common goals of everyone.
of different long term benefits increased
less
procurement
that open data can bring to a city,
revenue &
greater utilization
return on
investments
of services
government lower IT
simplified
information
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and the different groups that can
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many more
publishes
scientists designers developers academics
overhead requests
adoption
in multiple
volunteerism new
businesses
greater cities
data data visualization apps mashup
satisfaction
a graphical presentation that application: a piece of software a site or application that
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communicates information that can run on the Internet, uses and combines data,
in services standards clearly and effectively computer, phone or other elec-
tronic device.
presentation or functionality
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to create new services
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APIs
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interface: a set of instructions
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Civic Hackathons
higher transparency
an event for software developers,
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designers, entrepreneurs, etc. to
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zations, community members
and leaders to use technology to
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build solutions.
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increased apps to find the decreased workload app to adopt a
ridership and bus or train of Fire Department in snow, hydrant and shovel
rider satisfaction in real time multiple city adoptions it out in snow
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20. I WANT YOU I WANT YOU
TO hAck AWesOme sTUff TO hAck AWesOme sTUff
ATX OpenGov Meetup ATX OpenGov Meetup
Tues, Sept 18, 2012 Tues, Sept 18, 2012
7:00 PM 7:00 PM
location TBD location TBD
Watch @OpenAustin and Watch @OpenAustin and
email group for details. email group for details.
groups.google.com/group/openaustin groups.google.com/group/openaustin
OpenAustin OpenAustin

25. It’s not about us.

26. It’s not about what we,
as fellows, can do.

27. It’s about showing
what’s possible, and all
of us moving forward
together.

28. Thanks Austin!

29. An introduction:
Matthew Esquibel
Web Manager, Scarecrow

35. Thank you.
codeforamerica.org/austin