DIYcity Challenges

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Challenges happen periodically and are focal points for conversation and idea generation. You can submit a working application in response to a challenge and it will be discussed, or you can just submit ideas + comments.

Contents 1 Challenge #1 2 Challenge #2 3 Challenge #3 4 Challenge #4 5 Challenge #5 6 Challenge #6: *Special Challenge* 7 Challenge #7

Challenge #1

Build a Twitter bot that helps users avoid traffic and get where they're going faster. 10/10/08

• http://diycity.org/diycity-challenge-1
• DIYtraffic Documentation

Challenge #2

Conceive of a grassroots ridesharing system that can overcome the problems inherent in ridesharing and achieve critical mass. 12/10/08

• http://diycity.org/challenge/diycity-challenge-2

Challenge #3

Develop plan for a scaleable grassroots bus tracking system that operates in realtime. 1/29/09

• http://diycity.org/discussions/diycity-challenge-3

Challenge #4

Create an app that promotes bike riding in the city somehow: makes it easier to get from point A to point B, makes it less stressful, simpler, whatever. 2/24/09

• http://diycity.org/challenge/diycity-challenge-4-bikes

Challenge #5

Design an app that works as an early warning system for outbreaks of flu, colds and other communicable disease at the city level.

• http://diycity.org/challenge/diycity-challenge-5-outbreak

Challenge #6: *Special Challenge*

The DIYcity Challenge for this week is this: come up with a DIYcity Challenge. 03/16/2009

• http://diycity.org/discussions/diycity-challenge-6-special-challenge

Challenge #7

Build a site scraper for the website of a city agency in your city that scrapes data, dumps it into a database, and offers that to everyone in API format. 04/02/2009

• http://diycity.org/challenge/diycity-challenge-7-open-data