DotGovLab weekend presentation
- 1. Community Mission What is it? A common database of people, missions and assets An agreement to do something simple together
- 2. What is this trying to fix? Many developers are building sites that have similar core functions
- 3. We're all trying to recruit people between all of us and the web giants we hold millions of contacts
- 4. Only developers can build the websites they need, no easy way to adapt
- 5. Project management for government is cumbersome and bureaucratic
- 6. What is Community Mission? A simple data model containing people, missions and assets
- 7. An API
- 8. An initial website for organisations, individuals and groups to start, clone and manage missions
- 9. Flexibility: missions can be anything from Race Online to gritting the estate
- 10. Simple national call to action on direct.gov.uk and the same challenge on a hyperlocal site UK Snow Stay safe and help your neighbours. Start now
- 11. Features Many different signup and access channels
- 12. Signup via email address, Oauth, text etc
- 13. Profile can attach you to missions, places, themes
- 14. Receive more missions (opt-out available)
- 15. User's missions get sent to everyone in place or theme save time on recruitment
- 16. Missions can be cloned for replication but also localisation save development time, streamline procurement and funding
- 17. Different websites Same database
- 18. API Development on different platforms, so database can be accessed through whichever means people are most comfortable with, no personal data shared
- 19. Websites with different skins, council-approved platforms, Farmville-esque games, Pocket Parliament, text, Twitter, Wordpress and Blogger embeds for hyperlocal sites, your website
- 20. What I made this weekend Design of database, API and sketches of a first website
- 21. To do:
- 22. Build these designs (plsthx x)
- 23. Submit to OS developer communities
- 24. Build up user base through existing contact databases
- 25. Summary A common standard for the data of the 'Big Society'
- 26. Saves time for developers, government and community organisers
- 27. A small and simple solution that solves some big problems
- 28. You have probably already built this what is needed is adaptation and a common agreement
- 29. Community Mission: A common database of people, missions and assets