Minneapolis Monthly Meetup

This month we'll be joined by special guest Amy Riegelman, Assistant Librarian at the University of Minnesota Libraries, to talk about:

Grappling with Discoverability Consequences + Discovering Gov Web Analytics

When it comes to being mobile-friendly, Minnesota is not very nice. Learn about Google's algorithm changes and why Minnesota state web pages are buried in search results. Also learn about how 18F, a digital services agency of the federal government, created tool called http://Analytics.usa.gov . This tool allows for realtime access to usage statistics of government web pages. This open source project is in the public domain which means that other government entities are able to replicate this level of web traffic transparency.

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The rest of this meeting will be an open lab time where we will work on projects. Come with ideas for projects, things you may have already started, or we'll try to match you up with an already existing project or idea.

Please comment below any ideas or projects you might want to work on.

Code of Conduct

As with any event hosted by Open Twin Cities, our Code of Conduct (http://opentwincities.org/about/code-of-conduct/) will be in effect during this meetup. Respect each other. Don't be a jerk.

Projects

Our working projects at this moment are:

• Adopt-A-Tree (https://github.com/ballPointPenguin/adopt-a-tree) - Help Trees Stay Alive in the Summer;

• CoEventer (https://github.com/campuscodefest/ccf) - Our Ideation & Volunteer Tool;

• Visualizing Minneapolis Building Energy Efficiency (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/twin-cities-brigade/fCqgHHATNw8);

• Your Next Representative (https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/twin-cities-brigade/SbX4B_Fhp7w);

• our project and community management discussions (http://bit.ly/manageOTC);

• issues with the Open Twin Cities website (https://github.com/OpenTwinCities/opentwincities.github.com); or

• the Open Twin Cities Projects Page (http://opentwincities.org/projects).