AfterSchoolSF.org Launched!
AfterSchoolSF.org (aka. After School Special) was created in two days during California Data Camp: Exploring State Data and DataSF App Contest by Zap Squeak's main man, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . California Watch, Spot.Us, and some notable others sponsored the event so that computer nerds, data geeks, public servants and reporters could come together to "learn and discuss issues around public data in the State of California."
The goal here was to do something insightful with the datasets provided by datasf.org in the allotted time period: 9-5 on a Saturday, November 7th, 2009 (we also put in a day of prep time, but that was allowed). See it in action at www.afterschoolsf.org! There were some other great ones in there including a web app for tracking, maintaining and requesting city trees, a water usage tracker, and a map of San Francisco's oft-misused handicapped parking spaces. There was also the announcement of the release of more MUNI Bus data, which I'm sure will be very exciting to someone soon.
The site uses school sets from datasf.org and combines them with library and food information from GeoCommons. It is a PHP application with a simple admin area and a MySQL database behind it. Ultimately I'd love to expand this out so that more discreet data can be shown. If have a relevant dataset, have suggestions or happen to have a lot of time to enter address data into the database please let me know.
And of course there was someone liveblogging.
