Community Open Data Portal

[amaliebarras]

Short description of the idea (140 character tweet):

We need a data portal by the peeps for the peeps 🐣 - credit goes to @mateoclarke for the idea!

What is your project concept or idea? What challenge or opportunity will it solve?

Sometimes we come across datasets that need a good home. These can be data published by NGOs and governments, data generated by other Open Austin projects, or just dumps of data from information requests. Some good examples are the datasets on http://data.open-austin.org/

There are two parts to this:

1. Organizing what we know about these datasets so they are easy to sift through and find.
2. Hosting for datasets that are not otherwise publicly available. S3 would be good for this, but there are other options as well.

The community data portal is not really intended to compete or even overlap with existing data portals like the ones run by City of Austin or the State of Texas. Instead, this would provide similar functionality for datasets that come from places that don't already have an adequate data portal.

Who will benefit from your project? Describe the humans at the center of the problem - who are they?

How would they benefit? Can you tell their story?

Do you have photos of them? Or quotes?

People, non-profits and government agencies that want to publish open data but don't have anywhere to put it.
Anybody who wants to get open data from people, non-profits and government agencies that want to publish open data but don't have anywhere to put it. People who'd like to associate their projects with corresponding datasets

Issue area(s) relevant to your project idea:

• Economic Opportunity & Development
• Education
• Open Government/Transparency
• Other

What is the current state of your project idea?

I've designed & coded a prototype and want to make it function

Tell us more about the current state of your project idea.

Do you have any links to news articles, text, mockups, code, or data?

Readme Here

Tell us about yourself.

What is your background? Why is this challenge important to you?

Are you representing a group in submitting this project idea?

I'm the membership lead for Open Austin, so I wanted to tackle the challenge of demonstrating the value of open data with this portal, in order to get people excited & grow our community. Here is the existing design for the project

[mateoclarke]

Thanks for submitting this proposal @amaliebarras! I've added some labels.

[amaliebarras]

🐼

The repo where the design lives

What needs to be done next

[danielhonker]

Consider this project accepted, @amaliebarras!

Now that your project has been approved, here are some things we suggest you do next:
https://github.com/atxhack4change/2016-project-proposals#once-your-project-is-accepted-here-are-some-things-we-suggest-you-do-next

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