Roadtrip to Ottawa today with Daniel Haran , Michael Mulley (OpenParliament.ca) and Bernard Rudny (Citizen Factory through Apathy is Boring). Meeting up with Tracey Lauriault (DataLibre).
Here’s a list of the projects that are being hacked on today:
1) RepresentMe – Shawn Simister – Picture
2) Eat Safe Ottawa – Apple App for restaurant inspection reports – not out yet.
3) Mapping bus stops on a heat map. Interesting…
4) Canal Conditions – great app for finding out if the canal is good to skate on. Has been through a few iterations already.
5) Mapping playgroups in the city. Picture -Positive: lots of them. Problem: lots of them. Make them searchable by address, age, date, and more. :) In design stage. Request to the city is to make the parks + recs information to be more parse-friendly.
6) Iphone App for checking Ottawa city traffic cams. Traffic Ottawa
7) OpenDataApps – list of Open Data apps in Ottawa
8) OpenDataMap.ca – open street map data with a bunch of info / tags
9) OpenParliament – working on the API today.
10) AppleTree Medical Centers location finder and whether they are open or closed.
11) scrapping STO – Société de Transport de Outaouais – He developed a route-finder but only has a desktop interface for it right now. He’s going for an offline app that can update it’s data whenever it’s connected.
12) myTranspo – route-finder that runs on any web-browsing phone and detects geo-location.
13) Samuel showing a scraper library. Multi-threaded scrapping of different sites. Git repository – didn’t catch username on git.
14) GreenMyCapital (site not up yet – one week) – Adaptation of FixMyStreet by an environmental activist (greebelt preservation among others). Involves improving FixMyStreet as well.
15) Expense Visualizer -by FFCTN.com – I can’t get a url but it looks great. There’s a teaser on their homepage
16) CitizenFactory (yay!) Picture
I missed a few but I’m sure that OpenDataOttawa crew will have a comprehensive update after they’ve gotten a sleep cycle in.
It was a great event. Congrats and thanks to the organizers!
If you’re into this stuff, join the CivicAccess mailing list. It’s the best way to keep up to date on this movement across Canada.
The title is from an email Geneviève sent the volunteers list.
At Ile sans fil we’re finally making the decision to move away from WifiDog. It’s been a tough decision over the past two years deciding to move on because we’ve invested so much of ourselves into WifiDog. ISF originated the project and is responsible for nearly all of its development and success. It’s used all around the world and serves a lot of communities. However, I’m happy to see ISF and the rest of the Québec community wireless groups take on this new challenge.
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from Genevieve Bastien
to WiFiDog Captive Portal
date Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:27 PM
subject [isf-wifidog] Presenting AuthPuppy: a new generation authentication server
Hello all,
This is to announce that there’s a new puppy in town: AuthPuppy, led by the Quebec wireless communities and planned to be the successor of wifidog, under active development.
Wifidog is a great application, and has allowed to build great wireless organizations around the world. But as wireless communities matured and needs became more complex, we (the Alliance of Wireless communities of the province of Quebec) felt that wifidog wasn’t as scalable to those new needs as we could wish for.
Hence the need for AuthPuppy. Developed in php using the symfony framework, with a light core and plugin architecture, it will easily be fitted to anyone’s need.
The puppy is a few weeks old and not mature enough to be used in production yet, but he is ready to show his face to the world! We plan an alpha release for the end of the month. AuthPuppy is only the auth server and the gateways will work with it as well as with wifidog.
The source code is hosted on launchpad : https://launchpad.net/authpuppy
We have a wiki: http://authpuppy.org/wiki
You can reach the developer team (and ask to join in!) at : [email]
We’ll have a mailing list soon. The puppy even has his own twitter account! http://twitter.com/authpuppy
To join the development effort, read http://authpuppy.org/wiki/index.php/Getting_Started and get started with the puppy! We need help with everything: programming plugins, making the interface nicer, helping with the core, etc.
If you have any suggestions, comments, questions, you may use launchpad.
Wifidog is still alive of course. AuthPuppy is a parallel project that we think will answer the growing needs of our communities better.
Thank you,
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Geneviève Bastien
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