Waze Github Collaboration
Michael Schnuerle, Chief Data Officer
Ed Blayney, Innovation Project Manager
Office of Civic Innovation
Louisville, KY, USA
Contents: Waze Github Collaboration
Office of Civic Innovation - Louisville
Mayor Greg Fischer
Created office in 2010
Grace Simrall
Chief of Civic Innovation
Ed Blayney
Innovation Project Manager
Michael Schnuerle
Data Officer
Mary Hampton
Senior Data Scientist
Matt Gotth-Olsen
Innovation Project Manager
Daro Mott
Performance Improvement
History and Framing
History of Waze partnership
Limitations of Louisville’s MSSQL Database
Cloud Solution Github Collaboration
Current Project State
Phase Beta: AWS Cloud Formation
Phase 1: Terraform & End-to-End RDS
Project Road Map
Switching Code to Terraform.io
Upcoming (Phase 2): API Endpoints
Upcoming (Phase 3): Traffic Study Tool
Upcoming (Phase 4): Interactive Map
How Do We Do This?
Government Collaboration
github.com/LouisvilleMetro/WazeCCPProcessor/wiki/City-Contribution-Credits
Slingshot: Design, Dev, Cloud Shop
Big News: Sponsorship
Other Supporters
Open Government Coalition (OGC)
You Can Participate
Coding Support - Github
Use our repo’s Project and Issues area to decide how to help and discuss in detail how to implement new features and write code.
Make Pull Requests to do things like (see “help wanted” in Issues):
Non-Coding Support
Connection Support - Find Other Sponsors
Leverage your connections to get other sponsors on board to help fund development
Sponsorship Support - Fund the Development
Of course you can use the code and deploy at any time for free.
How about we pool funds for:
You are voicing your support for our past (and collective future) open source efforts.
Use the Github code for free or... Choose an optional annual sponsorship tier*
to sustain the project with a bucket of funding
Silver - $2K/y
Gold - $6K/y
Platinum - $10K/y
More benefits hopefully coming soon (other cloud provider credits, trainings, conferences)
* details are preliminary and subject to change
† limited pool of credits initially: first come first serve. US only. Govs not currently using AWS get priority. Agree to be a public reference.
Additional Support Information
Add-ons
Slingshot Support - around $5K/year - Implementation, plus annual support for questions/issues.
Slingshot is available for any custom work on an as-needed basis, but please feel free to use your local vendor.
Roadmap
Govs provide a bucket of potential upgrades/ use cases/ ideas/ features. Then the collaborators can vote on what is worked on next.
Use Case Collection
Current Waze Project Examples
Your Use Cases
Waze is collecting your use cases!
Reach out the Waze team or on the forum to let them know what you want the tool to do.
Then make tasks for it on Github and we’ll add it to the project roadmap.
Contact Info:
Ed Blayney
Innovation Project Manager
edward.blayney@louisvilleky.gov
Michael Schnuerle
Data Officer
michael.schnuerle@louisvilleky.gov