Public City Meetings

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  The "Meeting Wall"

Inspiration: The Infamous wall

• Difficult to access
• Difficult to read
• Existence is hidden

What We Did

• Created a template that stores meeting information in a PostgreSQL database and interprets that as a calendar

Challenges we ran into

• City meeting open to the public are not centralized publicly or formatted consistently

Re-evaluating the approach:

• People: Who approves the events?
• Process: How does an idea become an event?
  
• Product: How do we keep the process and expand transparency?

Considerations:

• Cost: Low monetary and time cost
• Needed: Change champions in the city
• Trajectory: City of Houston moving towards open data

What's next for Public City Meetings

1. Meet with Public City:
   • Better Understand the current process to avoid interruptions
2. Adjust the product
   
   • Implement current city use cases and needed data
3. Adoption & Implementation
   • Make web app extensible to other local public offices (city councillors, HPD, etc.)

Built With

• php
• postgresql