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6 march 2012
 
*status of the website
### we need a dedicated pirate pad/meeting words  in our site
Documentation 
We want to have something in two weeks, even if it is really basic.
 
PCCC is helping us out with a server and web design. Yay.
*open knowledge foundation
 
Get on Datahub and Github and peeps will make other peeps admins.
 
*Get a better idea of what others want from this group
Solve the internet  
collaborate with other 
Show that occupy can analyze and create as well as protest
     be useful to other 
     Create a NEW information, like how 99% tumblr
     reimagine what information is
     rethink, reinterpret - reimagine. Reboot
 
outreach to the data meetups
- we should host some. 
 
 
*Brainstorm on occupy data workflow, which might eventually 
become an internal collaboration/project management system built into the website
     one thing that has been hard to do with data is to have collaborative  coding
 
Can someone check this out? ----> http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/collabode/
people coming in and leaving the projects  
workflow management needs to have clear status displaed
 
we need to know when people stop working on a certain project 
we can have tasks that are really discrete, or really exhaustive
we can have tasks that can be executed in short time, with small amount of engagement 
 
Way to figure out when others are free/working on data stuff so we can having working/hangout meetings. 
 
Other tasks need the "war room situation" where we talk in person, discuss, debate, decide as a whole. 
     this might be more of a scheduling thing. let everyone know 
we want this to be in a website backend. 
you log in and you see what has been done, what needs to be done. 
you can track a project through all these bins, at any time you can look at a project, look at the documentation, 
 
outreach tactic - 
-- come up with some sort of scheduled events. like 6 hour prjects, divide tasks into 2 hour achievables. 
 
FOCUS should not just be "Occupy Data" this is not just about data about occupations, etc. this is about higher-level 
Issues of naming
Is it a resource space, is it a project space 
we want to have the occupy spin, or else we will be lost in the swarm of other data groups 
This is what makes us interesting. 
helps explain the structure of the group. 
 
 
*Discuss proposal for Thursdays GA requesting to form official committee for data. 
 
we are doing the proposal 
 
*Discuss what current or future projects (and in what platform, etc) we are all working on and what they will require for the website
 
Campaign contributions from 1999-2012 for DC
 
Lobbying  0     LB1 and LB2 - there is a broken field in the data set - 
    plain text intrepretation
    we need a data/dev/policy heavy
     - idea of making a web app 
FOLDING - http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download
 
Stage 1 - data is a mess 
 
Disclosure data - text. form lobbyists are required to fill out 
 
"How they lobbied for the bill" field is the most important, but as of right now, has not yet been mined. 
- - - media lab folks at MIT
 
Deploying R in a server environment, public - meant for mapping, etc. 
 
Workflow back end, output front ent. 
data, resources, workflow backend
 
Ben: Running R online:
http://rweb.stat.ucla.edu/ggplot2/
http://www.decisionstats.com/r-apache-the-next-frontier-of-r-computing/
 
*How to involve other tech and data folks from DC area (and nationally) in either teaching or participating member manner 
 
* Occupy data hackathon- need space plus would be awesome to partner with some cool tech firms in the area 
I can get a space.
 
*structural issues 
The group seems very loose - 
we want to have a set meeting time
two types - 1 agenda 1 hacking
 
 
Document proesses and resources as "best practices" to help similar groups get started/enable them to enhance their processes.
 
*DO IT!