Twenty-first hacknight – 26 participants.
Presenter: Adriana Ieraci, Get Your Bot On
How Will Robots Change Our Cities? Adriana Ieraci at Civic Tech Toronto hacknight, Dec 8 2015 from Civic Tech Toronto
Breakout groups:
- Ecologos website redesign – Hanifa
- Plain Language project – Matthew
- Refugees Welcome – Medina
- Planning applications – Gabe
- How to file an FOI request – Gabriel
- Open Cabinet – Alex
Planning application scraper group
Josh, Gabe, Leon, Joey, Hanifa
#RefugeesWelcomeTO
– Mapping the refugee experience:
– arrival in Canada
– sponsor / organization takes them in (temporary housing)
– they need clothing / food / toys for kids / language training / translation / job training
– they search for more permanent housing
– We don’t want to reproduce efforts; how might we create a central portal that folks to which folks can easily contribute?
– Many of the resources out there don’t capture the grassroots efforts going on: how do we aggregate all the existing resources (our typeform to gather this information can be found here: https://refugeeswelcometo.typeform.com/to/v67ctp)
– Neighbourhoods; could we curate some neighbourhood guides that help people get around where they are
– Volunteer database: we often get the question *I can do ‘x.’ How can I help?* a volunteer network, complete with food / clothing donation drop off points (by neighbourhood) would be awesome and helpful.
​Existing resources:
WeHost (Airbnb for Refugees)
OCASI’s Welcome Ontario: http://welcomeontario.ca/resources
Next Steps:
@shabs will reach out to Jim Estill
@riverdaletreeguy will attend the CSI meeting and share the output with us
@derakhshan will reach out to some of her partners in the community
@medina will reach out to COSTI
@all will help to circulate and populate the typeform (https://refugeeswelcometo.typeform.com/to/v67ctp)