Running Roll Call: Team Roll Call

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Date: 06-25-19

Agenda:

• Administrative setup of github repo
  • Wiki
• Analyze actual 311 data and determine if correlations can be drawn
  • "Can we actually make this work"
  • Ideate other 311 visualization tools
  • Find existing neighborhood council initiatives
  • https://data.lacity.org/A-Well-Run-City/MyLA311-Service-Request-Data-2019/pvft-t768

Notes:

• Internal data analysis tool to help find correlations with 311 data -- year over year, month over month, etc.
• Deploy on Raspberry Pi
• Pull data when it detects internet
• Frontend Dashboard
• Backend DB with data
• Startup script
• JSON 311 dataset for 1 year = 500mb

Next Steps:

• Talk tech stack
  • Implementation?

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Date: 06-18-19

Agenda:

Review readme doc content and format

Deciding how to document roll call, then doing roll call

• Will document roll via Google Sheets @ 311-Data Roster

Deciding how to do skills inventory, interest, and then doing it

• Russell Tan: Mobile frontend (swift), Backend, AWS/platform
• Winston Laoh: Backend, test, tools, infra engineer, project management
• Joshua Marx: Frontend, UI/UX(Storytelling)
• Armett Johnson: Frontend, UI/UX, product roadmapping
• Harsh Bhatt: Back-end engineer
• Lauren Sandberg: Product/project management, UX, product roadmapping
• Nathan Daneilsen: Frontend, UX, Product roadmapping

Skeleton roles and responsibilities

• Product Owner/Manager
  • Interfaces with and represents the customer
  • Determines product requirements and roadmap
  • Communicates needs/requirements/goals with the rest of the team
• Project Manager
  • Resource negotiation with DTLA HackforLA hosts
  • Communicating with tech/UI/UX leads to establish feasible requirements
  • Draft agenda, run meetings
  • Set/speak to tech milestones
• Tech Lead
  • Act as voice for reasonable delivery timelines, communicate tech lift involved
  • Responsible for overall system architecture
  • Perform code review
  • Drive QA standards
• UI/UX Lead
  • Represents the user
  • Designs interfaces, user flows
  • Performs user/usability testing
  • Communicate with tech lead to ensure they're on the same page about capabilities
• Customer/Stakeholder
  • Communicate their needs/goals (for product, and for timeline)
  • Review prototypes, User Acceptance Testing
  • Commitment

Review

1. Current My311-bi: https://empowerla.org/demographics-BI/
2. Mayor's Dashboard 311 request intake site: http://dashboard.lamayor.org/
3. LAEmpower site: http://empowerla.org/

Are there any other 311 visualization tools?

• My311 Data repository: https://data.lacity.org/A-Well-Run-City/MyLA311-Service-Request-Data-2019/pvft-t768
• NYC 311 Data: http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~samuel.goodgame/311/
• https://cvalenzuela.github.io/alt_docs/found_materials/

Next steps?

• Need to hear back from EmpowerLA re: neighborhood council reps!
• Ideate other 311 visualization tools
• Discuss skills and responsibilities