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This doesn't feel like an answer. This feels like annoying grant-writing fluff talk. "Some of the value statement around community impact is done in person or
by StrictDabbler 5y ago
This doesn't feel like an answer. This feels like annoying grant-writing fluff talk.
"Some of the value statement around community impact is done in person or through community outreach..."?
How do you do a value statement in person? What could that possibly mean?
The project desperately needs a clear summary of purpose. You have like forty contributors, five Portuguese translators, fifteen coders, and I have no idea what this tool is for.
I can put the street in a location, on a map, and that does... what?
I even started in reading your blog and it still doesn't make any sense. Nobody involved in the project is saying what the thing is for. The guidebook doesn't say what it's for, it just lists the specifications of a bunch of streets and conventions for contributing and how you do dependency pinning and...
It's like an exercise in deliberate madness. Like a fake open source project.
- dabreegster 5y agohttps://thecityfix.com/blog/how-bogota-is-turning-7000-citizen-proposals-into-a-real-plan-to-redesign-a-major-thoroughfare/ https://thecityfix.com/blog/how-bogota-is-turning-7000-citiz... Here's a "success story." Cities spend lots of time gathering feedback from citizens on transportation changes, but the feedback process can often exclude people who don't have time to physically go to town hall-type meetings. Or for those who do go, the options presented might not be easy to understand. And it's even harder for attendees to pitch their own variation. Streetmix made all of this easier, and it seems like it worked well in Bogotá.
- StrictDabbler 5y agoYou just pointed me to a 1,600 word article when I asked for a summary of what the project does. This is the problem I'm describing. It's major. You need to be able to say what your software is for in one paragraph. Period.