CivicTech WR Meeting Minutes¶
Date¶
2024-06-19
Attendees (# of attendees)¶
10
Agenda¶
- 6:00 - 6:20 PM: Welcome + Introductions (Icebreaker: Worst Movie Ever Seen)
- 6:20 - 6:40 PM: Project Pitches
- 6:40 - 7:40 PM: Breakout groups
- 7:40 - 8:00 PM: Progress report and cleanup
Notes¶
Sponsors¶
- Venue: Den 1880
- Food & Refreshments: Dreamside Digital
- Software Tools: Foxxwood.com
Announcements¶
- Headshots by Terry postponed to July 3rd. If interested, reach out to Terry on Slack
- Unfortunately we were not selected for the Upstream Fund
- We are adopting the Seasons model! This is week 1 of season 1, which puts our cutoff for new projects at July 24, and our Demo Day at Sept 4.
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If you want to become a CivicTechWR organizer, join the #organizers channel on Slack and check out the project board on Github. There’s lots to do!
Discussion and Pitches¶
- We had a big discussion about rallying behind a single project vs fostering multiple projects. Outcome so far is to keep exploring and experimenting.
Radical Transparency¶
- David proposed developing a platform that leverages AI to review and summarize city council meetings.
- This platform can help people understand what took place in these meetings.
- It can also be a valuable resource during election time, allowing voters to learn where candidates stand on the issues they care about most.
- The ability to search within the platform would greatly help people stay informed.
- This idea can also be adapted to other formats, such as school board meetings.