code for europe 2013 amsterdam at appsterdam

8/11/2019 Code for Europe 2013 Amsterdam at Appsterdam

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@Appsterdam


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Introductions

What is Code for Europe

How we work

Our three challenges: East, West, South

Resources

Program


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The Fellows in Amsterdam


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The Fellows in Europe


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"Code for Europe is a new organization looking to

solve local civic challenges, by temporary agile

teams of developers, in a way that the solutions

are easily reusable for other European cities."

www.codeforeurope.net

Code for Europe
http://www.codeforeurope.net/http://www.codeforeurope.net/http://www.codeforeurope.net/


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Code for Europe project

Hosting Organization Geemente

Fellows

Challenges

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Runners

Project organisation in Amsterdam


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municipalitieslocal

communities

developers

&

designers

Collaborative environment


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municipality

community

expert-lead

p

articipatory

when people

involved in

the process?

with whom we

are working?

Engagement Matrix


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municipality

community

expert-lead

p

articipatory

South

West East

Project fit


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West

East

South

Three projects


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West project: Frontline Staff

Runner: Eelke Jager & Rene de Jong

Context: Collaborative social services address the social problems in deprivedneighborhoods

Problem: A lack of information system support the practice across organisations

Solution: project management tool for agile civil servants

Status: concept development


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Runner: Anne-Jan Zieleman

Context: a neighborhood with full of citizen-initiatives have high demand of using

community space

Solution: a web application allows citizens to manage facilities and reserve rooms

Status: testin & im lementation

East: Social Accommodation


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South: Spreading out tourist

Runner: Elvira Osmanovic

Context:Municipality wants to enable visitors to explore outside of the crowd central

area

Solution:a playful app users can explore less-visited places in Amsterdam


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Bonus: bring a modern browser into city hall

Runner: Ourselves :)

Context:Municipality has Windows XP + IE8 on machines

Solution:deploy Firefox!

Status: posted the idea on the boards in Stadsdeel offices


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Title

content

Get introduced about BuurtPraktijk Team

West: frontline staff


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Title

content

Get introduced about BuurtPraktijk TeamBrainstorming with team members


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Reviewing existing information management tools


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Making decisions together


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Testing concept using existing software


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Paper prototyping before start building


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Simple project management tool


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East: Social Accommodations


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Meevaart

Timorplein

Makassarplein

AmbonpleinAmsterdam Muiderpoort station

22.000 inhabitants

Four active community clusters

50 community builders

200 initiatives

Indische Buurt Communities


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Current booking practice: flyers + calendar

Flyers in main lobby

Weekly room schedule posted on the board (static)

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Ensure long lasting project

Fellows start New fellows continue

Fork

Pull

request

Community contributes

Development

Iterations

Fork

Pull

request

Community contributes


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Next steps

Tech:Complete booking portion of the tool

Expose a public calendar of events

Add functionality to allow residents to publish initiatives and

reach interested people

People:

Organize a Workshop/"Boot camp" for people in theneighborhood:

for and by the community

with help from local coders communities (Anyone wants to

join? Get in touch!)


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Zuid - Moving Tourists


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Take a Hike! - Concept Evolution

Game Experienceo Fun and engaging

o Rewards - low cost, exclusive

o Offline playable

Scavenger hunto Manned checkpoints

o Physical QR codes with linked location

o Augmented reality

o Compass


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Feedbacko pitched ideas

Self-testingo walked/biked proposed routes

Potential user validationo engaged people in Museumplein

Take a Hike! - Concept Validation


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Exploring the routes


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User testing in Museumplein


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Web CMSo one place for text, images, locations

o easy geolocation

o delegate content creationo make changes to content w/o republishing

o data analysis (later)

Web APIo one call for all content

o collect check-ins

o check for updates

Take a Hike! - Components


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Native appso Smooth experience (responsiveness)

o Sensors

Location/GPS Magnetometer

Gyroscope

o Multi-threading

o Native Maps

Take a Hike! - Components


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CMS/APIo Ruby on Rails, Twitter bootstrap, jCrop

o Grape (API engine)

o RABL (Ruby API Builder Language)o Heroku (PaaS)

o Postgres (database)

o Redis (fast storage for published content)

Mobile appso Native iOS

o Native Android

Take a Hike! - Tech Stack


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Rain :(o few people on the streets

Self-test on bikeso Loads of fun

o Bugs / Issues

check-in radius too small markers inside locked buildings

some unable to complete route

Dutch version inoperable

Take a Hike! - Launch day


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Take a Hike! - Demo

Download atwww.gotakeahike.nl
http://www.gotakeahike.nl/http://youtube.com/v/cbOyP-8p0-khttp://www.gotakeahike.nl/http://www.gotakeahike.nl/


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Social engagemento community of explorers

o rating and discussing routes

CitySDK integration (Tourism, Mobility) Porting to more cities and languages More efficient API

o separate text and imageso downloading individual routes

Take a Hike! - Possible directions


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Resources: East

SamensApp:https://github.com/codeforeurope/samensapp

http://samensapp.herokuapp.com

Stories, photos, videos:http://storify.com/ohyoonkwon/code-for-indische-buurt

Help teaching Ruby on Rails in Indische Buurtemail us contact info at the end
https://github.com/codeforeurope/samensapphttp://samensapp.herokuapp.com/http://storify.com/ohyoonkwon/code-for-indische-buurthttp://storify.com/ohyoonkwon/code-for-indische-buurthttp://storify.com/ohyoonkwon/code-for-indische-buurthttp://storify.com/ohyoonkwon/code-for-indische-buurthttp://storify.com/ohyoonkwon/code-for-indische-buurthttp://storify.com/ohyoonkwon/code-for-indische-buurthttp://storify.com/ohyoonkwon/code-for-indische-buurthttp://storify.com/ohyoonkwon/code-for-indische-buurthttp://storify.com/ohyoonkwon/code-for-indische-buurthttp://storify.com/ohyoonkwon/code-for-indische-buurthttp://storify.com/ohyoonkwon/code-for-indische-buurthttp://samensapp.herokuapp.com/http://samensapp.herokuapp.com/http://samensapp.herokuapp.com/https://github.com/codeforeurope/samensapphttps://github.com/codeforeurope/samensapp


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Resources: South

Codez:https://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-api

https://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-

androidhttps://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-ios

http://www.gotakeahike.nl

Stories, photos, videos:https://storify.com/maggix/code-for-europe-amsterdam-zuid-challenge
https://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-apihttps://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-androidhttps://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-androidhttps://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-ioshttp://www.gotakeahike.nl/https://storify.com/maggix/code-for-europe-amsterdam-zuid-challengehttps://storify.com/maggix/code-for-europe-amsterdam-zuid-challengehttps://storify.com/maggix/code-for-europe-amsterdam-zuid-challengehttps://storify.com/maggix/code-for-europe-amsterdam-zuid-challengehttps://storify.com/maggix/code-for-europe-amsterdam-zuid-challengehttps://storify.com/maggix/code-for-europe-amsterdam-zuid-challengehttps://storify.com/maggix/code-for-europe-amsterdam-zuid-challengehttps://storify.com/maggix/code-for-europe-amsterdam-zuid-challengehttps://storify.com/maggix/code-for-europe-amsterdam-zuid-challengehttps://storify.com/maggix/code-for-europe-amsterdam-zuid-challengehttps://storify.com/maggix/code-for-europe-amsterdam-zuid-challengehttps://storify.com/maggix/code-for-europe-amsterdam-zuid-challengehttps://storify.com/maggix/code-for-europe-amsterdam-zuid-challengehttps://storify.com/maggix/code-for-europe-amsterdam-zuid-challengehttps://storify.com/maggix/code-for-europe-amsterdam-zuid-challengehttps://storify.com/maggix/code-for-europe-amsterdam-zuid-challengehttp://www.gotakeahike.nl/http://www.gotakeahike.nl/http://www.gotakeahike.nl/https://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-ioshttps://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-ioshttps://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-ioshttps://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-ioshttps://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-ioshttps://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-androidhttps://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-androidhttps://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-androidhttps://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-apihttps://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-apihttps://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-apihttps://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-apihttps://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-api


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