This is a list of project ideas and people interested in working on them for Code for Oakland 2012!
Please edit this page and contribute!
Project Name | Description | Needs/Requirements | Team Members | Accepting members? |
LocalWiki Launch |
Seed lots of content and add Templates for participating in Oakland's LocalWiki.
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No experience required, but would be convenient to have a laptop or other internet-connected device! We can share too though. | Matt, | Oh Yeah! |
Portals | Using transclusion make richer pages with structured data in localwiki | laptop, be able to envision what richer pages in loclawiki ought to look like , willingness to understand transclusion, | Max | |
NeighborhoodWatch |
Use live video on easy mobile apps enabling a discreet neighborhood watch. Should be more hidden than normal surveillance cameras. Should have social features to enable neighbors who know each other on a street to securely communicate with each other.
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Javascript, HTML5, Opentok API, PhoneGap | Romy Ilano | Accepting! |
Protect the Ice Cream Man | Problem: many undocumented workers selling ice cream or working in taco trucks are victims of crime because they carry cash + are known not to report to the police. Solution: use twilio/SMS on featurephones so that they can annonymously report incidents, get potential annonymous legal advice. | Twilio for SMS messaging, Javascript AJAX, HTML5, maybe StackMob? | Romy Ilano | Accepting |
Multilingua | Oakland has many immigrant groups speaking fairly "exotic" languages like Khmer, Hmong, Yemeni, Eritrean, Tagaloc, Ilocano, Mixtec, Zapotec. Could someone build a good CMS that enables members of this community (and those outside of Oakland) to crowdsource translate support guides on a mobile website? | Romy Ilano | ||
Green Soul | Eating healthy doesn't mean you have to give up your culture. Mobile web and PC web app showing healthier versions of Filipino / Mexican / African-American traditional dishes. Tie it into a point system integrated into users' churches so that they can share their transformations every Sunday. Inspired by the vegan Filipino restaurant No Worries. | Phonegap, Ruby? | Romy Ilano | |
Digital Zine Archive | We use scanning techniques to digitize Oakland zines freely available to read online. | Camera, zines | Max Klein | |
Pimp my Bus Stop | Using GIS, bus riders can submit requests about bus stop issues to AC Transit, i.e. missing furniture, vandalism, etc. | Sijui, no se, I don't know! | Reginald James | |
City of Oakland Events|Public Works|Volunteer List |
Using the current email list of volunteer events in City of Oakland, adding your address, allows you to see closer by events, Events corresponding to a mile from your address are plotted of Google Maps? Here is the live list, it can be text depending of the zip code entered: http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PWA/o/FE/s/VO/OAK030034 |
To add your own address. To make the list plot on maps. |
Luis A. Frigo luigi@teleosis.org |
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