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4 | Status | Project Title | Brief Description | More Info Link | Honorarium? | Requested By | Contact Info | Outcomes | Media Links |
5 | Completed | YouCanBenefit | A web tool that provides individuals, families, and community workers with easy access to infomration on available municipal, provincial, and federal benefits. | https://youcanbenefit.edmonton.ca/about | $50.00 | e4c and EndPovertyEdmonton | https://youcanbenefit.edmonton.ca/about | Projected started by Steven Myers volunteering his time, launched, and because it's a service for Edmontonians the City of Edmonton now updates, runs, and hosts the site. | https://globalnews.ca/news/3883996/edmonton-benefits-tax-credit-refund-support-government-online-tool/ |
6 | Completed | Air Quality Index "Light Art" | An art installation where a light changes to different colours based on the air quality in Edmonton. | https://smartcities.edmonton.ca/resources/ | (Unsure) | BetaCityYEG, City of Edmonton | smartcity@edmonton.ca | Jan Mußenbrock, a local developer involved with BetaCityYEG used Louisville's open-source code to bring the idea to Edmonton, and Dylan Toymaker, artist, made it into a piece of art. | https://globalnews.ca/news/4257784/edmonton-city-hall-air-quality/ |
7 | Ongoing | Web: IdeasForEdmonton.com Site | An online site that crowdsources ideas like the ones on this sheet, and also allows anyone to volunteer for projects. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mZOUlVX4uheAtu5E6OgDJfXU_t1THaea/view?usp=sharing | $50.00 | BetaCityYEG, betacity.ca | betacityyeg@gmail.com | ||
8 | Ongoing | Machine Learning: Exploring Libary Book Data | What patterns can be found in the most popular books by branch from the Edmonton Public Library? | https://data.edmonton.ca/Community-Centres/Most-Popular-Books-by-Branch-Edmonton-Public-Libra/qdgm-hex6 | $50.00 | BetaCityYEG, Taproot | betacityyeg@gmail.com | ||
9 | Seeking Help | Machine Learning: Exploring Property Assessment Data | With 401k+ rows of data on properties, what are some interesting insights that can be found from our data? | https://data.edmonton.ca/City-Administration/Property-Assessment-Data-Current-Calendar-Year-/q7d6-ambg | $50.00 | Taproot, BetaCityYEG | betacityyeg@gmail.com | ||
10 | Ongoing | Visualize: Cats, Dogs, Pigeons, Hens and Bees | The Open Data portal shows data for cats, dogs, pigeons, hens and bees. They are over different datasets, can someone put them on a map? | https://data.edmonton.ca/browse?q=pets%20map&sortBy=relevance | $50.00 | Taproot, BetaCityYEG | betacityyeg@gmail.com | ||
11 | Seeking Help | Building Edmonton in Minecraft | Don't have to build a photo-realistic version of Edmonton like in the More Info link, but it'd be awesome to have something there. | https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/big-city-life | $100.00 | BetaCityYEG, betacity.ca | betacityyeg@gmail.com | ||
12 | Seeking Help | Rotating Braille Machine | To create a small device that creates braille markings/words that rotate instead of being represented as a long strip. | None | BetaCityYEG, betacity.ca | betacityyeg@gmail.com | |||
13 | Seeking Help | General Machine Learning on Open Data | A general request to identify interesting datasets from Open Data (city, province, federal level). | $50.00 | BetaCityYEG, betacity.ca | betacityyeg@gmail.com, let's discuss your idea together before starting it | |||
14 | Seeking Help | Porting Open Source Project | A general request to extend interesting open sourced projects for Edmonton. | $50.00 | BetaCityYEG, betacity.ca | betacityyeg@gmail.com, let's discuss your idea together before starting it | |||
15 | Seeking Help | Updates to BetaCity.ca | Our site needs updates, we could use the help for it! Don't need technical background for this. | http://betacity.ca | $50.00 | BetaCityYEG, betacity.ca | betacityyeg@gmail.com | ||
16 | Completed | Google Streetview our River Valley Parks | 360 degree photos showing our parks at different points. Doesn't require tech ability. | https://www.google.ca/maps/contrib/104749148724462189971/photos/@53.5382576,-113.5557861,3a,75y,292.5h,80.8t,7.5r/data=!3m10!1e1!3m8!1sAF1QipOIvWlqUHpkU7I9hrTE6g_lMUZwpbne-bUJIHBm!2e10!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOIvWlqUHpkU7I9hrTE6g_lMUZwpbne-bUJIHBm%3Dw365-h260-k-no-pi-8.393622-ya207.50397-ro2.467115-fo100!7i5376!8i2688!9m2!1b1!2i34!4m3!8m2!3m1!1e1 | None | General Interest | betacityyeg@gmail.com | David Rauch walked aorund with a 360 Degree camera and it took snapshots while he was walking in our parks. | |
17 | Completed | LinkYEG.ca | A mobile-friendly website that lists all the most important resources for homeless or low-income residents. Provides info for everything from the closest library computers to the places that offer free meals. | https://betacity.ca/2015/10/28/linkyeg/ | None | CMHA, EndPovertyEdmonton | betacityyeg@gmail.com | This was started on an Open Data hackathon, forking the project from link-sf, and Eugene Chen continued to update it for CMHA (Canadian Mental Health Association). | http://www.edmontonsun.com/2015/12/08/real-time-information-for-edmontonians-in-need https://globalnews.ca/news/2387805/thats-power-for-people-new-app-aims-to-help-edmontons-less-fortunate/ |