St. Paul Monthly Meetup

We're excited to visit the beautiful Union Depot (http://www.uniondepot.org/) this month! Thank you to Ramsey County for opening up their space in the Depot, and for providing this month's dinner!

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. We'll have food and some great conversation.

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

Met Council Data with Todd Graham

The Metropolitan Council, our regional planning agency and provider of metro-wide services including Metro Transit, produces (http://www.metrocouncil.org/Data-and-Maps.aspx) and publishes (https://gisdata.mn.gov/organization/us-mn-state-metc) a lot of data. Todd Graham, Principal Forecaster at the Met Council, is going to stop by and tell us a bit about all this data and talk about the types of questions it might help answer.

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 different experiences, view points, and skills. Respect each other.

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;

• OMG Transit (https://github.com/omgtransit/omgtransit) - Put it in Docker, and AWS - Issue (https://github.com/omgtransit/omgtransit/issues/1), Merge Request (https://github.com/omgtransit/omgtransit/pull/4);

• CoEventer (https://github.com/campuscodefest/ccf/issues/74) - Our Ideation & Volunteer Tool;

• Code Switch projects (http://www.opentwincities.org/2016/06/13/codeswitch-projects/) - Projects that started at Code Switch in June;

• 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).

Transit and Parking

Union Depot is a major transit hub (http://www.metrotransit.org/union-depot), accessible via the Green line and bus lines 3, 16, 21, 54, 63, 70, 94, 262, 350, 351, 361, 364, 417, 480, 484, and 489.

Those biking will find bike racks at the bus platform and on the north plaza near the light rail station. There is also a Nice Ride station near the light rail station.

If you're driving to the meetup, there are plenty of parking options available near by. Union Depot maintains a page with information about it's parking ramps (http://www.uniondepot.org/about/parking/) (which have $4 flat evening rates). There is also street parking through out Lowertown.