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Hackathon @ Tech Midwest

At the inaugural Tech Midwest we're calling on all developers, designers, artists, makers, and technologists to come build something incredible! Whether you are a seasoned veteran or an absolute beginner, we want you to join us for this year's Hackathon!

Get together in teams of 2-5 people and collaborate on a project over the course of the event. At the end, present what you created and see which teams did the best!

Madison 4 Upgrades

  • Simplified client side code, massively reducing technical debt and increasing stability, maintainability, and ease of collaboration.
  • UX overhaul, focusing on clean and simple layouts, removal of several small features that were not being utilized.
  • Full acceptance test coverage, making it easier to avoid regressions during development, especially by outside contributors.
  • New moderation tool on documents, allowing sponsors the ability to hide comments that are flagged as inappropriate.

Elizabeth Conversation Notes!

  • Chart of Accounts -- the structure
    • Organization - where
    • Object - what
  • In our data
    • object == oca
    • org == obj_lvl_3
    • expenditures = 1-5
  • revenue = 6-9

Happy Open Data Day!


Open Data Day is..

..an annual celebration of open data all over the world. For the seventh time in history, groups from around the world will create local events on the day where they will use open data in their communities.It is an opportunity to show the benefits of open data and encourage the adoption of open data policies in

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{
"agency": "City Council",
"fund": "010009",
"lob": "City Council Members",
"program": "Group health insurance",
"key": "Group health insurance",
"value": "100651"
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Madison Refactor - Pages

/ - Homepage

I think there are some UX things we can consider for this page, like the placement of the search bar. Probably a few other things as well.

  • 1 page of documents, by most recent created
    • Probably need ability to pass a page query param
  • Featured documents

IT Open Data Policy

Administrative Regulation 8.4

Current Revision: September 8, 2016

Last Revision: September 8, 2016

Description

Open Wichita - Virtual Hack Night, 11/30/16

Focus project -- Open Budget Wichita

  • Inspect existing project
  • Determine needed skillsets
  • Define initial tasks
  • Start interactions with the city to get budget data

Governing together for a better Wichita

At one point or another, every city faces a time in it's growth where it must face some difficult challenges. The decisions made and action taken during these times will forever shape the future of that city. These decisions are made not just by the government and elected officials, but also by the citizens. Every person who calls that city home will have a direct impact on it's path forward.

When a city can embrace this notion of including all people in the conversation

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'groups' => [
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'name' => $group->name,
'docs' => [$doc1->toArray(), $doc2->toArray()]
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'name' => $individual_group->name,
'docs' => [$doc3->toArray()]