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This is the start page of the wiki for the SEANetMap project, a collaboration between M-Lab and Code for Seattle, which aims to crowd source network performance statistics for Seattle's broadband.

The code is demo'd live at http://broadbandtogether.com

(Note that the domain name broadbandtogether.com has no official connotations associated with it. It is simply a domain at which to demo the code.)

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Communication channels
• Scope
• Status and road map
• Calendar
  • 2015-05-21: Code for Seattle's Civic Hack Night
  • Archive of meetings

Introduction

Quoting the original meetup intro:

Code for Seattle is teaming up with M-Lab to work on a city broadband map for Seattle! The goal is to build an online tool for collecting and visualizing speed test data, and allowing citizens to easily compare internet options and costs.

Communication channels

The main communication channels at this time are:

• This repo's issue tracker
• The fully public email list with searchable archive: [email protected]
  • To read the archive
    • https://groups.google.com/d/forum/seanetmap
  • To subscribe
    • send email to [email protected]
    • or use the web interface
  • To unsubscribe
    • https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/seanetmap/unsubscribe
• the #codeforseattle IRC channel on freenode.net (low traffic)

Scope

The main goal at this time is to bang out a Seattle specific site. Yet it is very clearly a longer term goal to have a codebase which can easily be deployed by other localities. This Seattle site will be useful for Seattle, but might best be viewed as the version 1.0 "one for the pan" as we warm up and learn what reusable code will look like and what feature it will have.

Status and road map

[Last updated 2015-05-06 by @JohnTigue]

Very little actual coding is currently happening. Most work at this time is organizational in nature:

• build out documentation in the wiki
  • requirements
  • architecture overview
  • developer guide
  • deploy guide
  • testing processes
• lay down code's structure and test framework
• get CI/CD going with an actual "live" deploy of the code
• etc.

Currently, we are still integrating four codebases:

• M-Lab's Leaflet map w/ hexbin'd plot of tested net speeds. (including the tool which generates those maps, bq2geojson)
• M-Lab's NDT JavaScript with D3 circle as progress bar
• Brett Miller's work
• The code in this repository as generated by members of Code for Seattle (Node server and front end HTML)
  • This includes John Tigue's is work aggregating tests by Seattle City Council districts (see #1).

The current milestone is simply the above tasks with a fully fleshed out dev and deploy process. That would be significant: a new project off the ground on its own terms.

After that there would still be a LOT of work to do, which has not been well defined. Really what was just describe is just Step One: get the project unified and automatic.

So no schedule, and no roadmap past the next corner. Yes, clearly we know where we want to go roughly but not with discrete actionable tasks that can be taken up in a loosely couple group.

Calendar

2015-05-12

• Tuesday May 12, Seattle Citizens Technology Advisory Board
• http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-Seattle/events/222327790/

###2015-05-13

• Wednesday May 13, CUGOS Spring Fling, all day
• University of Washington in Seattle
• http://cugos.org/2015-spring-fling/

2015-05-14

• Civic Hacking Night at Impact Hub Seattle
• Thursday, May 14, 2015 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-Seattle/events/222327819/

2015-05-21

• Civic Hacking Night at Impact Hub Seattle
• Thursday, May 21, 2015 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-Seattle/events/222327833/

Archive of meetings

• Pre 2015-04-19 Work by M-Lab
• 2015-04-19 meeting: The Montlake meeting
• 2015-04-23 meeting: Civil Hacking Night
• 2015-04-30 meeting: Civil Hacking Night
• 2015-05-07: Code for Seattle's Civic Hack Night

Pre 2015-04-19 Work by M-Lab

Quoting the meetup.com announcement:

M-Lab staff have put together a prototype map of data aggregation to help seed the work at the hackathon. That prototype is viewable here:
http://files.opentechinstitute.org/~kinkade/bq2geojson/html/

And the code is here:
https://github.com/m-lab/bq2geojson and https://github.com/m-lab/ndt-javascript-client

[JFT: I believe the M-Lab folks banged this prototype out during the two weeks before the 2015-04-19 meetup.]

2015-04-19 SEANetMap meeting #1: The Montlake meeting

• Meeting was at SPL Montlake The first meeting for this project happened at the Seattle Public Library in Freemont: Build a Broadband map for Seattle.

The main minutes of the meeting can be found at:
https://etherpad.net/p/Build_a_Broadband_map_for_Seattle

2015-04-23, SEANetMap meeting #2

• http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-Seattle/events/221913855/
• Meeting was in Ballard.
• This wiki started.
• Server local storage work started.

2015-04-30: Civil Hacking Night

April 30, Civic Hacking Night at Impact Hub Seattle, 6p.m to 9:00p.m
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-Seattle/events/221400416/

It is not clear if anything SEANetMap related happened at that meeting. JFT was not present so cannot comment.

2015-05-07

• Thursday May 7, Civic Hacking Night at Socrata, 6p.m to 9:00p.m
• http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-Seattle/events/222133718/
• Good session. Bruce Blood was there to interface from the city. Brett Miller, Yonas Berhe, John Tigue, were banging on things. A new contribute named Scott may have liked the kool-aid.

###2015-05-12: Seattle Citizens Technology Advisory Board JFT was present made a very brief presentation.

###2014-05-13: CUGOS Spring Fling JFT was present. Talked to multiple people. They liked the idea. Hopefully a seed was planted.

2015-05-14: Code for Seattle's Civic Hack Night

JFT and Yonas Berhe were present. Eliot was on-boarded.

[2015-05-18]: Status meeting

City, M-Lab, and JFT meet to discuss the project status.