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Presented a summary of my 2012 Code for America fellowship experience at a Code for Japan meetup.
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Rob Brackett
2012 Code for America Fellow, Chicago
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The spec has problems.• Unclear what things are optional (in reality: everything)
• Lots of room for different cities/implementations to work differently
• Open311 is about customer service; the city is focused on operations
• Date problems — formatting, time zones
• No paging
• No searching
• No provision for how to show extra/custom data
• No way to show detailed progress
• No way to handle “follow-ons”
The spec has problems.• Unclear what things are optional (in reality: everything)
• Lots of room for different cities/implementations to work differently
• Open311 is about customer service; the city is focused on operations
• Date problems — formatting, time zones
• No paging
• No searching
• No provision for how to show extra/custom data
• No way to show detailed progress
• No way to handle “follow-ons”
Track your explorations.http://blog.apps.npr.org/2014/09/02/reusable-data-
processing.html
Have a use case.
Share your work.
Make it easy for others to participate.http://opensourcedesign.is/blogging_about/import-designers/
Good READMEs
• Quick and clear description
• A screenshot (seriously)
• Easy setup instructions
• Contribution instructions
• Recommended bugs to work on
Be nice.
• Respond to bugs and PRs quickly (even if just to say you can't get to it right away)
• Always use a friendly tone
• Be encouraging and constructive; don't say what's wrong, suggest how it could be better
• Say thank you!
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Community Projects
ありがとうございます!Rob Brackett [email protected] @mr0grog GitHub.com/mr0grog flickr.com/mr0grog !
servicetracker.cityofchicago.org github.com/codeforamerica/srtracker http://dev.cityofchicago.org