CityCamp Honolulu - Latest Comments

Re: Congratulations Hackathon Teams!

Larathain — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 03:28:32 -0000

I'm a friend of Lori's and have lost contact with her, I was wondering, do you have an email of hers?

Re: Thoughts on hack-a-thon

hawaii — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:02:13 -0000

I've mentioned this many times before, but why not again? I've long been interested in HPD crime data. For years the claim was that it just wasn't available in an easily processable format. But now HPD is sending a feed to CrimeMapping.com. If a private company can get this public data, why can't the public? HPD is already sanitizing it for specific crimes and throttling updates:

http://www.honolulupd.org/s...

Also, this data should be in an open format:

http://www4.honolulu.gov/hp...

From what I gather, some sites are scraping this page and parsing it, but that's just silly.

Re: Aloha and Welcome to CityCamp Honolulu!

Leshunkele — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:13:45 -0000

The link to this page said it was aksing for items. This page doesn't ask for items, bt allows a reply.

My suggestion for a governenment setting the example for openness, it to require disclosure of funding for Neighborhood board candidates from other than prsonal funds. A recent election saw 6 candidate send our approximately 35,000 large, full color, double sided cards to each home in their covered area. Who would spend so much money on a non-paying position? Mandatoty disclosure might eliminate some of the cynicism surrounding such a election. These same board memebers were in the midst of approving a development OVERWHELMING opposed by the residents.