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Using Weave to Support Community Capacity Building

Using Weave to Support Community Capacity Building. NNIP Members involved in the Open Indicators Consortium NNIP Meeting – Portland - March 1, 2012. Who is OIC?. Partnership of 15 Public/Nonprofit Data Entities and the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research

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Using Weave to Support Community Capacity Building

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  1. Using Weave to Support Community Capacity Building NNIP Members involved in the Open Indicators Consortium NNIP Meeting – Portland - March 1, 2012

  2. Who is OIC? Partnership of 15 Public/Nonprofit Data Entities and the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research University of Massachusetts, Lowell Came together to build a flexible, fully featured, open source web-based data visualization and access platform Born of experience with proprietary systems – major investments that ended in heartbreak or worse Vision that there must be a way to pool talents to build our own system

  3. OIC Members OIC Sites Working with NNIP Members • Metro Atlanta/Atlanta GA (Neighborhood Nexus Partnership) • Metro Boston/Boston(  Metropolitan Area Planning Council and the Boston Indicators Project at the Boston Foundation) • Metro Chicago/Chicago IL (  Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning) • Columbus/Central OH ( Community Research Partners, MORPC) • Connecticut (CERC & CT Data Collab. (with New Haven Hartford ) • Kansas City ( MARC and  Collaborative) • Michigan Data Collaborative ( Grand Rapids /  Detroit) • Rhode Island (Rhode Island Dept of Education and  the Providence Plan) • Seattle/King County Public Health Department  • Portland - Institute for Metropolitan Studies  • San Antonio Community Information Now - NNIP Partner NNIP Partners (13) / HUD Sustainable Communities Grantee (7)

  4. OIC Members Other OIC Members • Arizona (State University of Arizona, Innovation and County Indicators) • MA Dept of Early Education and Care • Rockford Region Vital Signs • So. Florida Planning Council (Related/potential-Miami ) • Associated Grant Makers NNIP Partners (13) / HUD Sustainable Communities Grantee (7)

  5. OIC Mantra OIC Mantra: Build it together – grow the community Build it once & keep refining Build what we want & need – flexible, universal Make it free of license fees Be patient- we are building for the long haul How? Grow a dynamic open source “ecosystem” around the project Data entities, higher ed, hackers, private developers, open source evangelists Build community capacity to use data / demand for data

  6. OIC Process and Tools • Bi-weekly Call • Google Groups • Weave Redmine for Bugs & Feature Requests http://bugs.oicweave.org/projects/weave • Redmine Wiki

  7. Collaboration: Serendipitous Results • Dynamic interaction between users and developers to build and adapt the Weave platform to community needs • Building a community of users: • Sharing experience in community engagement • Peer Support • New partners coming on board

  8. Collaboration: Challenges • Aligning styles and needs across academic partners and community partners • Tools for Entry Level Users • Time required – pace of development • Sustaining the development work after initial release • Getting traction in Open Source marketplace

  9. Next Steps • Build OIC/Weave Learning Community & “Ecosystem” • Weave Conference / Fall 2012 • Continuous refinement of interface/functionality through user feedback • SimpleWeave– downloadable, click to install version • Defining cross-site projects (e.g. public health, health equity analyses) • Data Commons: Facilitating cross-member access to common data sets via Weave (e.g. ACS, NNIP/UI Datasets, Shared Indicators)

  10. Resources: OIC and Weave • Introduction http://www.oicweave.org/ • Code Repository https://github.com/IVPR/Weave • Wiki/Documentation http://bugs.oicweave.org/projects/weave/wiki • Member Sites in Development • Full list: http://bugs.oicweave.org/projects/weave/wiki/OIC_Member_Web_Sites_incorporating_Weave • Connecticut: www.ctdata.org • Boston: http://metrobostondatacommon.org • Atlanta: http://www.neighborhoodnexus.org/content/maps- • Portland: http://www.portlandpulse.org/

  11. Presentations • Experiences with MAPAS and the Migration to Weave Jeremy Pyne, Grand Rapids - Community Research Institute & Michigan Data Collaborative • Using Weave to Understand the Impact of Transportation Service Cuts Holly St. Clair & Jamila Henderson, MAPC • Community Engagement and Weave in Atlanta Mike Carnathan, Neighborhood Nexus / Atlanta Regional Commission • The Challenge of Data Standards David Percy, PSU • DataHaven: Building Community Capacity in Connecticut Jim Farnam, DataHaven/CT Data Collaborative

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