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Welcome to BetaNYC's Tools for NY City Council and Community Boards tools Wiki!

These pages are for BetaNYC's campaign to build tools for City Council, their staff, and Community Boards. Over the course of eight weeks, BetaNYC members were challenged to take NYC's Open Data and make tools. The culmination of this eight week campaign Code Across NYC, 22/23 Feb.

Currently, BetaNYC is focusing on the following realms of data: Crime and Public Safety data, Schools and Transportation, Land Use, and NYC 311.

Notes for CodeAcrossNYC participants:

• Projects & descriptions must be submitted on Saturday, by 8PM. (LINK FORTH COMING)
• Social media hashtag #CodeAcrossNYC / host @BetaNYC
• Realtime chat via irc.freenode.net in #BetaNYC channel
• General email development discussion at BetaNYC-Dev
• Projects people are excited to work on. BetaNYC-Dev discussion thread
• Preexisting projects on projects.betanyc.us

Desired Outcomes for Code Across NYC 2014:

• Create tools that help city council members and community boards understand the City’s open data.
• Prototype tools, dashboards, and curriculum for NY City Council, their staff, and NYC Community Boards.

Prizes will be awarded to the best prototypes:

• Best Overall Civic App
• Most Creative Use of Open Data
• Best Visualization of NYC Open Data
• Best User Experience
• Best City Council/Community Board App
• Best Citizen Engagement App

Resources and Challenges from BetaNYC

• NYC 311
• Community Boards
• Crime & Public Safety
• Education
• Land Use
• Transportation

Notes from community meetings

• Notes from Kick off meeting - Beyond Transparency, Tools for NYC Council and Community Boards - Ideas and Feedback, Meetup Notes for 8 Jan
• Notes from Manhattan Borough President's first Borough Board Meeting

Highlighted Tools / Maps

• NYC's city wide gis maps
• http://cbtools.wpengine.com/ - a website built by OpenPlans that documents tools for community boards. (old site isn't working http://communityboardtools.org)
• http://datasearch.furmancenter.org

Challenges, highlighted datasets, tools, and notes from the hacknights.

• Crime and Public Safety data | Notes from 15 Jan's Hacknight
• School Choice + Transit HackNight A night dedicated to NYC High Schools and Transportation | Notes from 22 Jan's Hacknight
• Land Use Data - PLUTO and ACRIS hacknight | Notes from 29 Jan's Hacknight
• NYC 311 & Community Inquiry Data and US Census Data | Notes from 12 Feb's Hacknight
• Civic Tools Edit-a-thon