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Lightening updates

Lightning updates from our teams:

#GoWithFlo has created and tested several hypotheses. They have established that there are good accessibility guidelines already available but feel that the council website is not easy to read. They intend to build an accessible, Easyread WordPress blog for local news and events.

#ActiveAberdeen has done its first prototype, created a basic test version and asked for user feedback on this. Feedback has been good so they are now harvesting more data with which to populate their app.

#BigSociety has decided to focus on volunteer matching. They are currently building an app. Their next step is to get the data with which to populate it.

#FOIAWiki has an ontology and database and almost have data. They know what they are looking for and how they intend to organise it.

#Oranj, #JuicyWords and #RosettaRoot are in the process of building their app to simplify matching translators to jobs. Several pages have been built including a login, calendar and search form. They have also been designing a “juicy” logo.

#BigSociety summarised their aim

#BigSociety summarised their aim in one sentence as “a dating app for volunteers”!  They want potential volunteers to be able to find opportunities that are a perfect match for their availability and skills.  This will allow volunteer hours to be used more effectively, and by providing full information regarding what the volunteer role entails, and what skills are required, create a better volunteering experience.

The ideal is for the app to allow matches to happen in a timely fashion, so as to link in with funding opportunities on offer, and also offer the possibility to track the volunteer hours being utilised.

Team #BigSociety are

Mark, a web developer; James, a development officer; Julie, the Enterprise, Innovation & Funding Officer in the Communities team at Aberdeen City Council; Jan, an information systems analyst; and Brian, the Chair at Altens & Cove Community Association.

#RosettaRoot

#RosettaRoot are the team that hope to simplify the lives of the translation co-ordinators themselves.  Their interface is designed to allow the translation team to review the requested translation jobs, create a shortlist of freelance translators most suited to the work, and then share the available opportunity with the translators.

Once the translators have had an opportunity to apply for the work, it’s the translation co-ordinators’ job to check the applications and assign the work to a particular translator.

The members of #RosettaRoot are as follows

Charlie, who does application support for Aberdeenshire Council; Danyal, an HND software development student; Danny, a web developer for an advertising company; Robert, also a software development student; and Ana, the co-ordinator for the translation team.