Pocket SF is a responsive web app that leverages public city data and Google Maps to find practical resources in SF
SF Gov showcase: http://apps.sfgov.org/showcase/apps/pocketsf/
Hosted at: http://www.pocketsf.io/
Completed features: Bike parking, public art, mobile food, restaurant scores
Future features: movie locations
Team goals:
- Beautiful application that we can show off
- App allows users to learn something new about the city
- User testing outside of our group
- Fully functional and complete project that we can show to employers
- Make app useful
- Explore relevant technologies
- Explore the JS realm
- Meteor is an opportunity to learn more
- Stephen wishes to work on product management
- Keep it mellow
- Submit the app to the city
- Explore SF Open Data
How to use the data/Let's brainstorm the product:
bicycle parking data/ info google maps api Movies entertainment data. address difficulty on parking in public parking spots because of unclear restrictions
Schedule: Stephen: open schedule (lives in SOMA), except Saturday night Steven: Open schedule, tends to be more a daytime worker. Sat/ Sun prefer to start 9:30 pm Max: Burlingame. Morning person. Wakes up at 5:45. Sleeps at 10:30pm. Can be flexible. Wants time off Sunday morning. Sushi: Friday night, maximize meals together. (Steven will plan) 1 hour lunch Morning breakfast check in ( set goals ) 8:00 end of day check in
PocketSF Schedule
Thursday (hammer our schedule/tech/plan/exploration) 1:30pm: Team Lunch 2:30pm: Team meeting 7:30pm Scrum meeting 8:00pm: End day
Friday ( Setting up the meteor framework / complete all views ) 8:15am: Breakfast checkin @ Starbucks 3rd street. 1:30- 2:30 pm: Team Lunch 7:30pm Scrum meeting 8:00pm: End day 8:30pm: Sushi / Korean food
Saturday ( the day of the API’s / design ) Work @ Steven’s place (125 San Anselmo ave, San Francisco) 10:30: Checkin at Steven's 11:00: Start work 1:30- 2:30pm: Team Lunch 7:00pm Scrum meeting 7:30pm: Free night activities (kumbaya, talent show, etc)
Sunday ( design / API half day / MVP met by end of days ) Work location: TBD 11am: start working 7:30pm Scrum meeting 8:00pm: End day
Monday ( front-end frame work / additional data layers / destination-centering ) 8:15am: Breakfast checkin 1:30- 2:30 pm: Team Lunch 7:30pm Scrum meeting 8:00pm: End day
Tuesday ( user testing / ios-ify, android-ify / final features) 8:30am: Breakfast checkin (Fearless Cafe) 1:30- 2:30 pm: Team Lunch 7:30pm Scrum meeting 8:00pm: End day
Wednesday ( Final three features + additional user/unit testing + Submit app to the city) 8:15am: Breakfast checkin 1:30pm: Team Lunch 6:00pm Scrum meeting 6:30pm: Team dinner hosted by Pocket SF
Git workflow: One person to merge pull requests. (Stephen) Great git workflow communication. One Master branch / Development branch / Feature branches => fork off development branch. Research into the additional tools (jenkins and travis )
Set of user stories that constitutes ideal product:
- As a user you shall be able to find bike parking around a location
- As a user you shall be able to find all restaurants with adequate health scores / check in real time
- As a user you shall be able to find parking restrictions through visual representation.
- As a user you shall be able to find upcoming community events in my location.
- As a user I would like some playful functionality around pocket
- As a user I could pin comments on to a map
Roles
- Steven : Design Ninja, Timeboxer
- Stephen : Product Manager Knight
- Max : Facilitator and UX Design Ninja
GOALS FOR DAY
- Better understand with what data we want to work with X
- define the app
- product road map -one or two liner that describes its usefulness
- have a git repo created X
- make a decision on the stack (meteor) X
- scope whats the hardest thing to do X
- explore and decide on jenkin or travis or neither
Interesting Data Sets
Disabled parking spaces: includes location, site details, ect. JSON avail. Street Sweeper Scheduled Routes: schedule with when and where. JSON- not sure Off-street parking: JSON avail. Parking Meters: JSON avail. Scheduled tow away area: Noise reports for geographical On-street parking census JSON avail. Restaurant health scores ( Bicycle parking (no map)
- SFPD Incidents - from 1 January 2003
- Bicycle Parking (Public)
- Off-Street parking lots and parking garages
- SF Civic Art Collection
- Restaurant Scores
Our MVP goal: find the nearest bike rack near destination or self
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