Hacknight #500

Bikespace – Project Updates

with Sonal Ranjit, Alexandra Portolos, and Ben Coleman

Bikespace – Project Updates

BikeSpace is a community-built web app that lets people report the issues they find when trying to park their bikes in the city and helps people find bike parking in Toronto. The project originally launched at Civic Tech Toronto in July 2017 and has evolved through several iterations. Hear from some of the current BikeSpace volunteers about what they’ve been working on over the past couple of years, including launching a dashboard and improving it using user testing, and launching a new bike parking map.

Speakers

Sonal Ranjit

Sonal has been a part of various projects at Civic Tech Toronto since he first joined the community about 8 years ago. He is a Software Developer by day and avid biker on nights and weekends. He’s also obsessed with brewing the perfect cup of coffee, which he attempts every morning.

Alexandra Portolos

Alexandra is a product designer who cares about creating human-centered digital experiences that are thoughtful, intuitive and more accessible. She volunteers with Civic Tech Toronto’s Bikespace team to improve the experience of biking in her favourite city, Toronto.

Ben Coleman

Ben is an amateur programmer who cares about sharing and protecting nature in cities. He enjoys biking to work at the Scarborough Health Network Foundation, where he helps to raise funds to build more equitable healthcare facilities.