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- 2. Question? @LuigiMontanez I am here to recruit you.
- 7. Question? @LuigiMontanez Questions for me? @LuigiMontanez
- 16. Question? @LuigiMontanez Just plain lame!
- 24. Question? @LuigiMontanez Closed Source Open Source
- 25. Question? @LuigiMontanez Civic Side Projects
- 26. Question? @LuigiMontanez Open Source + Open Data = Better Government
- 27. Question? @LuigiMontanez Government as a wholesaler, not retailer
- 32. Question? @LuigiMontanez High Quality Raw Data ✴ First: Raw data in XML, JSON, or CSV ✴ Second: RESTful APIs in JSON/XML ✴ Third: Nothing really...
- 35. Credit: vgm8383 on Flickr
- 39. Question? @LuigiMontanez APIs about Congress ✴ Sunlight Labs API - Bio and contact info ✴ OpenSecrets.org - Contributions ✴ GovTrack.us - Bills and Vote Records ✴ MAPLight.org - Vote Influence
- 56. Question? @LuigiMontanez U.S. Courts System ✴ Supreme Court (1) ✴ Courts of Appeals (12) ✴ District Courts (94) ✴ Courts for Patents, International Trade, Bankruptcy
- 61. Question? @LuigiMontanez States ✴ Not much yet... ✴ FollowTheMoney.org ✴ 50 State Project - transform legislative data for all 50 states into a common format
- 62. Question? @LuigiMontanez Cities ✴ Washington, D.C. - api.dc.gov
- 63. Question? @LuigiMontanez A CITY HAS AN API!!!
- 65. Question? @LuigiMontanez Cities ✴ Washington, D.C. - Data Catalog, Open 311 API ✴ New York City - Big Apps contest, Open 311 API ✴ San Francisco - DataSF.org, App Store
- 66. Question? @LuigiMontanez Getting Involved ✴ groups.google.com/group/sunlightlabs ✴ #transparency on Freenode ✴ github.com/sunlightlabs ✴ @sunlightlabs on Twitter ✴ SunlightLabs.com
- 69. Question? @LuigiMontanez Project Lifecycle 1. Explore 2. Design 3. Implement/Test 4. Deploy
- 72. Question? @LuigiMontanez GAE Daily Quotas ✴ 1.3 million requests ✴ 1 GB bandwidth outgoing ✴ 1 GB bandwidth incoming ✴ 6.5 CPU Hours ✴ 10 million calls to the Datastore ✴ 1 GB in the Datastore
- 75. $ sudo gem install google-appengine $ sinatra-gen mycivicapp
- 76. # Inside config.ru require 'appengine-rack' AppEngine::Rack.configure_app( :application => 'mycivicapp', :version => 1) require 'mycivicapp' run Sinatra::Application
- 77. $ appcfg.rb gem sources $ appcfg.rb gem sources --add http://gems.datamapper.org $ appcfg.rb gem install sinatra dm-appengine
- 78. Question? @LuigiMontanez WEB-INF Directory ✴ XML and YAML config ✴ .jars for: ✴ AppEngine SDK (holds webserver, Datastore) ✴ JRuby, RubyGems, jruby-rack ✴ Our installed gems
- 79. $ appcfg.rb --help usage: /usr/bin/appcfg.rb [options] <action> <app-dir> [<output-file>] Action must be one of: help: Print help for a specific action. request_logs: Write request logs in Apache common log format. rollback: Rollback an in-progress update. update: Create or update an app version. update_indexes: Update application indexes. version: Prints version information. update_cron: Update application cron jobs. run: run jruby in your application environment. gem: run rubygems for your application. bundle: package your application for deployment. The 'gem' and 'run' commands assume the app directory is the current directory.
- 80. $ dev_appserver.rb . => Booting DevAppServer => Press Ctrl-C to shutdown server => Installing JRuby => Retrieving jruby-rack => Installing appengine-sdk => Generating configuration files The server is running at http://localhost:8080/ ^C $ appcfg.rb run -S irb $ appcfg.rb update .
- 81. Question? @LuigiMontanez GAE Limitations ✴ No ActiveRecord ✴ No ImageMagick ✴ No Sphinx ✴ No Ruby gems with C extensions
- 82. Question? @LuigiMontanez Consider Civic Hacking ✴ Enhance your skillset ✴ Get noticed ✴ Low risk, high reward ✴ Another TDD framework? Really? ✴ Local/state govts. an untapped market ✴ Solve a hard problem