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<b>Team projects</b>
<b>Team projects / Problem Statements <<< PLEASE REMIX/ADD TO</b>


Here are 3 example team projects from the notes leading up to the Hackanooga 2012 event.
Please add your comments/notes/thoughts to the ideas below. If you don't want to edit the wiki, you can email us at ignite at mozillafoundation dot org.
This is just to give the KC teams an idea of how to use this wiki and the etherpad. NOTE:
Start off adding to the etherpad if that's easier.


===Team idea 1: High-Quality Open Source Web Conferencing===
This is very much a work in progress that needs to be radically refined in the coming weeks.


WHO: Fred Dixon (ffdixon .at. bigbluebutton .dot. org), Calvin Walton, Ryan Seys<br>
Finally, start hacking now. There's no reason to wait to the event to begin.


WHAT: Four hacks on [http://www.bigbluebutton.org/ BigBlueButton] to leverage high speed
===Team idea 1: Edu-gaming on rich, real-time networks===
networks and HTML5 clients.


====Special experimental Firefox builds for WebRTC==== You can get the "Alder" builds of
WHAT: Kids and learners of all ages game all the time; let's combine current gaming technology and innovative collaborative learning techniques with the rich, social experiences that are possible on these fast, low-latency networks to create highly effective learning experiences.
Firefox nightly, which are those that include the bleeding edge code for WebRTC, from the
[http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/ Tinderbox downloads
directory on ftp.mozilla.org]. These are roughly hourly test builds and are not
necessarily stable, so you may have to hunt around for one that works for you. Be sure to
get one of the builds that start with "alder-". The others are used for testing other
experiments.


Note: For all the following hacks, we want to run BigBlueButton on the Chattanooga's
WHO/suggested: ~PREP-KC, KCDD education team, KCDD gaming team
network.  We need servers running [http://releases.ubuntu.com/lucid/ Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
64-bit].


Hack #1: <b>Standalone HD Video Chat application</b> -- Modify BigBlueButton so it starts
DISCUSSION: Ties in with an idea from Iron Open gaming for social amateur gaming leagues (https://mozillaignite.org/apps/394/) -- early non-funded applicant to Mozilla Ignite -- wasn't focused on educational gaming but might be worth a conversation if there's interest. (-willbarkis)
up with Video Doc as the main screen.  Create a Rails application that lets anyone setup
and join an on-line session.  Modify the record and playback scripts to create a HD video
file showing a checkerboard pattern of all webcams.   We should be able to get 16
simultaneous users doing video using BigBlueButton.  [Fred Dixon]


NEEDS: Web designers for the rails application.  We'll also need a physical server on the
NEEDS:
Gig network to install BigBlueButton.


Hack #2: <b>Integrated HTML5 client</b> -- We've already created a prototype HTML5 client
===Team Idea 2: 3D modeling and printing for education and advanced manufacturing===
for BigBlueButton, but it's currently separate from BigBlueButton.  We'll be hacking this
weekend on the integration, with the goal of demonstrating an HTML5 client joining a live
BigBlueButton session by the end of the weekend.  [Ryan Seys].


NEEDS: UI designers for mocking up HTML5 interface for web conferencing.  We have some
WHAT: Develop a collaborative 3D modeling environment to work with cloud software and CNC machines so that students in different schools can effectively work together to create printable items within a middle school or high school curriculum.  Will most likely utilize gigabit and  GENI rack capabilities.
initial designs, but it would be great to brainstorm on how to layout the controls.


Hack #3: <b>Output recording to Popcorn Maker</b> -- We already use popcorn.js for
WHO/suggested: Julie Leach (KCK Schools?), Mike Demarais?
playback.  Working with David Seifried (popcorn developer), create scripts to export a
Stakeholders: Otherlab, school districts.
subset of the BigBlueButton recording (video + slides) into Popcorn Maker for enabling
students to create mashups with other web content. [David Siefried]


NEEDS: Ruby skills for extracting and converting the XML data from events.xml into JSON
DISCUSSION: This is very makery-type stuff; involve those orgs?  Like Cowtown Computing Congress..?
format for integration with Popcorn Maker.
A Mozilla Ignite team called engage3D is working on 3D telepresence using the Microsoft  Kinect sensor to stream 3D point clouds might be a potential partner.  Their app is for a slightly different purpose but they're trying to create an educational experience with a group who discovers shipwrecks  and does underwater exploration. Might be cool to be able to print out a  3D model of part of the shipwreck you just explored remotely...


Hack #4: <b>Broadcast audio to HTML5 client</b> -- BigBlueButton uses FreeSWITCH which
Another project out of Austin called Lynx Labs has a prototype 3D camera that creates water-tight models on the fly and can be used in conjunction with 3D printing: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/915328713/lynx-a-camera They are coming to the hackfest.
already integrates with Icecast. Recently, Icecast added support for WebM. This hack
will be to extract a live audio stream from FreeSWITCH and broadcast it to the HTML5
client.  This will extend Hack #2. [Calvin Walton]


NEEDS: Experience with Icecast and WebM.
===Team Idea 3: KC Digital Archive -- Community Content Sharing/Archiving===
WHAT: Digital Story telling using KC community content.  This could be a cloud based platform for  delivering KC community content such as KCPT's digital library, Jazz History museum, etc., etc. to KC residents in high quality, novel ways.


===Team Idea 2: 3D videoconferencing===
WHO/suggested: ~KCPT, KC Public Library, other community orgs?


WHO: Andor Salga and Bill Brock<br> WHAT: 3D telepresence/videoconferencing using Kinect
DISCUSSION: Potential to crowdsource the prioritization/ranking of local content; community archiving/curation in a way; digital storytelling; KC digital archive could be like the Internet Archive but focused on KC based content.  Could  be a platform for sharing video footage of various KC events -- Middle of  the Map, Paris of the Plains Cocktail Festival, CityCamp, etc. Maybe some potential partnership  with the "Proximity 1" group out of local PBS affiliate -- applied into  the Mozilla Ignite challenge but didn't receive funding (https://mozillaignite.org/apps/372/).
sensors for capture.<br> NEEDS: WebGL wizard<br>


Discussion: Why not just use Kinect with Zigfu and either 3.js or Unity? (WebGL would
===Team Idea 4: Cultural Repository===
likely make this impossible to complete within the hackathon period.)
WHAT: This team will create a cultural repository of Kansas City and/or a curated channel of Kansas City-specific event programming (Hackathons,  CityCamp, MOTM, etc).  Will possibly utilize gigabit+rack if users are  able  to "manipulate" the object (to pick it up, rotate it  as they  desire, etc.).


===Team Idea 3: Chattanooga Public Library=== <p>WHO: Nate Hill, Chattanooga Public
WHO/suggested: KCPT
Library<br /> WHAT: Imagine an immersive, interactive information environment where a map
Stakeholders Arts Team, Arts Task Force, Event producers, KC Libraries
of the city of Chattanooga is projected onto the floor.  Looking and walking around the
map, you orient yourself.  First you find the street you live on and step over to it.  You
tap your foot twice and zoom in.  Cool!  You scuff your foot to the left and zoom back
out.  Next you find the location of the art museum and the piece of public sculpture you
love. You tap your foot once on an icon, and another projector lights up the wall with
information about this piece of sculpture.  A life size photograph of a Tom Otterness
bronze is displayed, along with biographical information about the artist and suggestions
of other similar works nearby or in other cities.  Links to resources about Otterness,
bronze casting, and public art from the library catalog and across the internet are
displayed as well.  The Otterness sculpture is actually a part of a larger exhibition, a
tour of public art in Chattanooga.  When you discover this, you tap again and all of the
other items on this tour light up on the floor around you. <br /> This is a proposal to
create an interactive digital map of the city of Chattanooga that would be projected on
the concrete floor of the fourth floor space in the Chattanooga Public Library.  The map
would make use of projection mapping technology, gig-speed wireless connectivity, Esri GIS
data, and Open Street Maps to create an inverted augmented reality space.  This map would
be an exhibition space, an urban planning tool, and an educational asset for Chattanooga.
In addition, the map could link to other gig-speed communities featuring similar
compatible geographic interfaces and exhibitions.<br /> NEEDS: Development help.  I'm
rallying some folks from the Chattanooga area, but expertise hacking this together would
be fantastic.<br /> <br />Discussion: It's cool and feasible, but not sure how this
utilizes a Gigabit network. ([[User:Yosun|Yosun]] 21:01, 24 August 2012 (PDT)) <br /><br
/>@Yosun I was trying to tell the story of an inspiring, immersive geographic interface,
knowing that it's one implementation of something that could be much bigger.  If you
simply wanted to make this interface leverage the gig, you'd have location based
videoconferencing.  I step on a point that has an active user, *blip*, I open a live
channel with that user.  Done.  Hopefully, this is an idea that I hope has hooks, an idea
that is extensible. If you had an immersive location based tool like this, what would you
make it do? <br/ ><br />Video-conferencing alone is feasible already on non-gigabit
networks. VIdeo-conferencing with many many users simultaneously could use a gigabit
network, but then, there would be too much cross-talk in the lag, for regular-connectivity
users. It seems a "walking-based" interface would rely on a much too expensive setup for
precision -- Kinect doesn't do well for precision, so you would end up needing an array of
mounted IR detectors (6 digits). What about a touch-screen interface ([[User:Yosun|Yosun]]
18:47, 2 September 2012 (PDT)) </p>


Those are just examples to get us rolling -- fill the etherpad up with your ideas and thoughts!
DISCUSSION:
 
===Team Idea 5: Arts Experience===
WHAT: Utilize ultra fast networks to dramatically enhance rapid browsing of very high quality images of art works.  Could supplement with the kind of enhanced experiences uses get in person with audio tours, supplementary  video (eg "making of") type things, etc., etc.  The network will also  permit nearly instantaneous “zoom in” on specific details.
 
WHO/suggested: >>> Reach out to folks at  Nelson-Atkins Art Museum; Kemper Contemporary Art Museum; Crossroads art  district galleries who are working in these areas.
 
DISCUSSION: Open the door for radically different immersive experiences. Could be a  KC economic booster through tourism driven revenue and enhanced local  art industry.
 
===Team Idea 6: Easily accessible healthcare from public kiosks===
WHAT: Use gigabit uncompressed video and local cloud computing to create a prototype School-Based Health Center of the future.  The federal government under the Affordable Care Act has been strongly encouraging the development of SBHCs across the country.
 
WHO/suggested: ~Steve Fennel, KUMC / Morgan Waller, CMH; KUMC has a SBHC at Wyandotte High School in KCK, potential test location
Stakeholders/suggested: ~Children's Mercy, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Health Care Team
 
DISCUSSION:
 
===Team idea 7: Social fitness anytime & anywhere===
People are much more likely to stick to fitness goals if they have peers and a place to meet. Convenient and easy, a virtual fitness platform enables anytime + anywhere fitness with friends for better health.
Team Lead/suggested:  Bob Summers, KinectHealth Mozilla Ignite team (https://mozillaignite.org/apps/396/)
Developer Lead/suggested:
Notes: >>> talk to Bob Summers about plans; what accomplish over the weekend?  // Specific focus area idea: Use next generation network technology to help address the issue of childhood obesity--including diet, access to food, and fitness/activity level.  //  KinectHealth -- a Mozilla Ignite team working on social tele-fitness  app -- might be a potential partner and they've applied for the travel scholarship so they are interested in coming. They're also very  interested in childhood obesity & diabetes prevention.
===
8) Education everywhere through high quality Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
Create a rich online learning environment using next-generation network technology to improve student engagement and open new learning opportunities.  For example, develop software that allows teams to "interactively watch" a MOOC video -- students could interact with each other while having distributed pause, rewind, and play control on the MOOC video (like watching a movie in a  Google hangout).  Other potential projects: software for students to  "annotate" the MOOC video with chat/written comments that are saved with  the video and played back to future students; derivative videos  including clips from students that further explain parts of the  instructor video inserted into the instructor video; or  pre-scheduled  group hangouts to discuss the content of a particular MOOC video.  Could  require SDN+gigabit+rack capabilities, depending on the variation.
Team Lead/suggested: Michael Henry (UMKC)
Developer Lead/suggested:
Stakeholders: Education Team, Kyle Pace
https://sites.google.com/site/kcg2education/
Notes:
===
9)  DIY Health Sensors
Teams will seek to make one of the following: (a)  Combine a digital scale with a Raspberry Pi and USB WiFi stick to create  a scale that automatically records weight readings and provides  longitudinal readouts on demand (via WiFi) to a phone or laptop in the  home; (b) Combine a digital home blood pressure cuff with a Raspberry Pi  and USB WiFi stick to create a blood pressure device that automatically  records pressure readings and provides longitudinal readouts on demand  (via WiFi) to a phone or laptop in the home; or (c) Use a transmitting  blood glucose sensor (for diabetics) to send readings to a smart phone  which will only re-transmit them to healthcare providers over a secure  SDN link.
Team Lead:
Developer Lead:
Notes:
===
10)  Smart Streets -- Safe and efficient transportation systems that detect  situations to prevent accidents and optimize traffic management in KC.
"Smart"  traffic systems could use automated video analysis from cameras at  intersections to dectect pedestrians, wheelchairs, bicycles and other  traffic situations to prevent accidents. Detecting cars, busses, etc.,  might allow city planners to better time traffic lights, reduce traffic,  and improve efficiency.
Team Lead/suggested:
Developer Lead/suggested:
Notes: Most pedestrian fatalities occur in crosswalks.
Mock up scenarios to model behavior that could be observed by, e.g., video cameras on stoplights.  There are a couple of researchers within the US Ignite/GENI  community  working on this -- in particular, KC Whang at Clemson University.
Python and other langs have good visual detection libraries. - http://opencv.org/
Hacked kinect to be wired up to this kind of thing?
Also industrial style Kinect devices, designed for outdoors with hundreds of tracking points.
Gautam  Biswas, Vanderbilt, and a couple of his graduate students working on  making an entire learning framework/curriculum around real-time  transportation grid.
Mozilla  ignite seed team: "Optimizing Public Transit" -- helping transit  planners and bus drivers make decisions based on analysis of real-time  data.
===
11)  Better Weather Prediction
A team at UMass/Dallas-Fort Worth lead by Mike Zink is using low-cost small RADAR deployment and network-on-demand capabilities to detect and analyze severe weather including tornados, flash flooding, etc., only when it's needed to save lives and costs (e.g. via Internet2 connection between Dallas and KC).
Team Lead/suggested:
Developer Lead/suggested:
Notes:  For this project to be relevant, KC Public Safety departments would need to be involved and might need to consider investing in low-sky radars like those now being utilized in Dallas-Ft. Worth.
===
12) Public Safety Android App (for Google Fiberhoods)
Android App that  can alert public safety access point (PSAP) to report both emergency and  non-emergency events of interest to public safety and postentially include voice communciations and pictures / videos sent directly to the  PSAP.  For the Hacking the Gigabit City, demonstrate such an Android App  with a goal of eventually persuading Google to allow the application to work over any accessible Google WiFi point.  (Also, an Android App for  Neighborhood Watch described below.)
Team Lead/suggested:
Developer Lead/suggested:
Notes:
===
13) Application-as-a-Service platform for business development and/or education
Imagine setting up a business in KC gave you access to a turn-key computer  setup that with a click provided access to software such as Microsoft  Office, Excel, database software, automatic backup, customer  relationship management software, etc., etc.  All you need is a low-cost  computer that can connect via  high speed network to the cloud  computing environment where all of this is running.
Team Lead/suggested:
Developer Lead/suggested:
Notes:  Somebody would have to pay for this so licensing would obviously be a consideration.
Also great for more public benefit type applications-as-a-service such as something library-based or community college based that gave access to powerful, expensive software more efficiently and less expensively.  The apps could run on the local cloud facility (eg US Ignite Rack) and use gigabit paths from the local cloud servers to virtual desktops in homes  and small businesses (the library patrons or community college students). [Note: This can already be done via VMWare, but the library will need scheduling / reservation / queuing to share the small number of server copies of each software app and not run afoul of licensing  restrictions.]
===
14) Next-gen small business
This  team would develop one unique small-business app  that can only be  provided via a gigabit network.  [Probably from a local  cloud.]  Live-stream viewing environment —Create a live stream viewing  environment where online viewers can interact and participate in the  viewing experience (e.g., change camera angles or shots). For other  project ideas, see also examples in #5 above.
Team  Lead/suggested: Brandon Cummins (Paris of the Plains Cocktail Festival,  video producer); KC Sporting? KC Chiefs? Royals? Kauffman performing  arts center?
Developer Lead/suggested: ??
Stakeholders: Arts Team, Middle of the Map Music Fest
===
15) Tomorrow's web today:  new websites on ultra fast networks
Design  a website with a user experience that can only be fully realized over a  high-bandwidth connection (like the difference between Flash/no Flash  used to be).
Team Lead/suggested: John Kreicsberg?
Developer Lead/suggested: ??
Stakeholders: VML? P3? Other agencies/creative shops?
===
16) Next-gen home
This team would develop one unique in-home app that can only be  provided via a gigabit network. [Probably from a local cloud.]
// Another way of thinking about this: what would Google Fiber Event Space want to demonstrate in their home setup?
// Pre-fetching & pre-caching content..
===
18) Civic participation anywhere
Create platform for easy access to video of meetings, civic events, government operations and associated content such as digital copies of the budget, interactive ways to given citizens voice, access to data sets, etc. 
Team Lead/suggested: Code for America fellows? Mayor's Office?
Developer Lead/suggested:
Notes:  I'd love to see an archive of things like city council meetings, etc.  Searchable by transcript?
====
19) Enhanced City Planning
Use gaming mechanics, 3D mapping and GIS elements to  foster public engagement in city planning processes. Interactive, real-time response requires gigabit + rack capabilities. 
CfA  would like this to be the Civic Tech track and have proposed the  following statement: Create regional civic tech solutions that foster public engagement in city planning processes and utilize public data sets and existing open source technology.
Team Lead/suggested:  Nate Allen
Developer Lead/suggested:
Stakeholders/suggested: Code for America fellows, Nick Budidharma, Jase Wilson
Otherlab, school districts
//  Reminds me of the CHAnge project that some of the folks at Hackanooga wanted to put together. It was one of the teams that pitched  Mozilla Ignite but was not funded and has since disbanded -- but maybe they'd be interested in trying to put their shoulder into it again.
 
These are all works in progress so please fill the wiki with your ideas and thoughts! And, again, if you don't feel like editing the wiki please drop us a line at ignite at mozillafoundation dot org.

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Hacking the Gigabit City
Mar. 22-24, 2013
Register here

Mozilla, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, KC Digital Drive and the Kauffman Foundation would like to invite you to "Hacking the Gigabit City" on March 22-24 in the Google Fiber Space in Kansas City.

Gigabit networks might just be to the 21st century what railroads, electricity, highways and telephones were to the 20th. That future is here in Kansas City, home of broadband and barbecue. Following previous events in San Francisco and Chattanooga, we invite you to Kansas City to come hack the gig.

At "Hacking the Gigabit City", we'll dream, build and hack together on innovative apps that can make a difference in people's lives. Join us for a weekend of authentic BBQ, talented people and a unique opportunity to hack on Kansas City's 1 gigabit-per-second Google Fiber network.

Teams are forming and projects created here could grow into submissions to the Mozilla Ignite Challenge with $250,000 of seed money, mentorship and other resources to help get off the ground.

Apply now for a travel scholarship or simply register for the event. And please tell your talented friends.

This wiki is intended primarily as a place for team formation and idea sharing among teams planning to come to "Hacking the Gigabit City".

App idea / team formation discussion call
Conference Number: 650-903-0800 x92 conf 7614
Toll-free: 800-707-2533 then password 369 conf 7614
Wed., Feb. 13 @ Noon Central
Wed., Feb. 20 @ Noon Central
Wed., Feb. 27 @ Noon Central
Wed., Mar. 6 @ Noon Central
Wed., Mar. 13 @ Noon Central
Wed., Mar. 20 @ Noon Central

For the calls themselves, please use this etherpad to take notes:

HackingTheGigabitCity etherpad

It's a little easier for real-time communication and we will migrate it to the wiki after the meeting:

Apps and App Teams Forming for Hacking the Gigabit City

We're interested in demonstrating innovation in education, workforce training, healthcare, and other public benefit areas. We'll be prototyping using client-side open web technologies (HTML5, WebGL, WebRTC) and a local private cloud. The types of applications we're talking about include:

  • applications that require high bandwidth (100Mbps to 1Gbps)
  • applications using huge data sets
  • applications that take advantage of layer 2 programmability/software defined networking
  • demonstrations of the above running point-to-point with local anchor institutions (over community fiber or wireless)

Team projects / Problem Statements <<< PLEASE REMIX/ADD TO

Please add your comments/notes/thoughts to the ideas below. If you don't want to edit the wiki, you can email us at ignite at mozillafoundation dot org.

This is very much a work in progress that needs to be radically refined in the coming weeks.

Finally, start hacking now. There's no reason to wait to the event to begin.

Team idea 1: Edu-gaming on rich, real-time networks

WHAT: Kids and learners of all ages game all the time; let's combine current gaming technology and innovative collaborative learning techniques with the rich, social experiences that are possible on these fast, low-latency networks to create highly effective learning experiences.

WHO/suggested: ~PREP-KC, KCDD education team, KCDD gaming team

DISCUSSION: Ties in with an idea from Iron Open gaming for social amateur gaming leagues (https://mozillaignite.org/apps/394/) -- early non-funded applicant to Mozilla Ignite -- wasn't focused on educational gaming but might be worth a conversation if there's interest. (-willbarkis)

NEEDS:

Team Idea 2: 3D modeling and printing for education and advanced manufacturing

WHAT: Develop a collaborative 3D modeling environment to work with cloud software and CNC machines so that students in different schools can effectively work together to create printable items within a middle school or high school curriculum. Will most likely utilize gigabit and GENI rack capabilities.

WHO/suggested: Julie Leach (KCK Schools?), Mike Demarais? Stakeholders: Otherlab, school districts.

DISCUSSION: This is very makery-type stuff; involve those orgs? Like Cowtown Computing Congress..? A Mozilla Ignite team called engage3D is working on 3D telepresence using the Microsoft Kinect sensor to stream 3D point clouds might be a potential partner. Their app is for a slightly different purpose but they're trying to create an educational experience with a group who discovers shipwrecks and does underwater exploration. Might be cool to be able to print out a 3D model of part of the shipwreck you just explored remotely...

Another project out of Austin called Lynx Labs has a prototype 3D camera that creates water-tight models on the fly and can be used in conjunction with 3D printing: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/915328713/lynx-a-camera They are coming to the hackfest.

Team Idea 3: KC Digital Archive -- Community Content Sharing/Archiving

WHAT: Digital Story telling using KC community content. This could be a cloud based platform for delivering KC community content such as KCPT's digital library, Jazz History museum, etc., etc. to KC residents in high quality, novel ways.

WHO/suggested: ~KCPT, KC Public Library, other community orgs?

DISCUSSION: Potential to crowdsource the prioritization/ranking of local content; community archiving/curation in a way; digital storytelling; KC digital archive could be like the Internet Archive but focused on KC based content. Could be a platform for sharing video footage of various KC events -- Middle of the Map, Paris of the Plains Cocktail Festival, CityCamp, etc. Maybe some potential partnership with the "Proximity 1" group out of local PBS affiliate -- applied into the Mozilla Ignite challenge but didn't receive funding (https://mozillaignite.org/apps/372/).

Team Idea 4: Cultural Repository

WHAT: This team will create a cultural repository of Kansas City and/or a curated channel of Kansas City-specific event programming (Hackathons, CityCamp, MOTM, etc). Will possibly utilize gigabit+rack if users are able to "manipulate" the object (to pick it up, rotate it as they desire, etc.).

WHO/suggested: KCPT Stakeholders Arts Team, Arts Task Force, Event producers, KC Libraries

DISCUSSION:

Team Idea 5: Arts Experience

WHAT: Utilize ultra fast networks to dramatically enhance rapid browsing of very high quality images of art works. Could supplement with the kind of enhanced experiences uses get in person with audio tours, supplementary video (eg "making of") type things, etc., etc. The network will also permit nearly instantaneous “zoom in” on specific details.

WHO/suggested: >>> Reach out to folks at Nelson-Atkins Art Museum; Kemper Contemporary Art Museum; Crossroads art district galleries who are working in these areas.

DISCUSSION: Open the door for radically different immersive experiences. Could be a KC economic booster through tourism driven revenue and enhanced local art industry.

Team Idea 6: Easily accessible healthcare from public kiosks

WHAT: Use gigabit uncompressed video and local cloud computing to create a prototype School-Based Health Center of the future. The federal government under the Affordable Care Act has been strongly encouraging the development of SBHCs across the country.

WHO/suggested: ~Steve Fennel, KUMC / Morgan Waller, CMH; KUMC has a SBHC at Wyandotte High School in KCK, potential test location Stakeholders/suggested: ~Children's Mercy, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Health Care Team

DISCUSSION:

Team idea 7: Social fitness anytime & anywhere

People are much more likely to stick to fitness goals if they have peers and a place to meet. Convenient and easy, a virtual fitness platform enables anytime + anywhere fitness with friends for better health. Team Lead/suggested: Bob Summers, KinectHealth Mozilla Ignite team (https://mozillaignite.org/apps/396/) Developer Lead/suggested: Notes: >>> talk to Bob Summers about plans; what accomplish over the weekend? // Specific focus area idea: Use next generation network technology to help address the issue of childhood obesity--including diet, access to food, and fitness/activity level. // KinectHealth -- a Mozilla Ignite team working on social tele-fitness app -- might be a potential partner and they've applied for the travel scholarship so they are interested in coming. They're also very interested in childhood obesity & diabetes prevention.

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8) Education everywhere through high quality Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) Create a rich online learning environment using next-generation network technology to improve student engagement and open new learning opportunities. For example, develop software that allows teams to "interactively watch" a MOOC video -- students could interact with each other while having distributed pause, rewind, and play control on the MOOC video (like watching a movie in a Google hangout). Other potential projects: software for students to "annotate" the MOOC video with chat/written comments that are saved with the video and played back to future students; derivative videos including clips from students that further explain parts of the instructor video inserted into the instructor video; or pre-scheduled group hangouts to discuss the content of a particular MOOC video. Could require SDN+gigabit+rack capabilities, depending on the variation. Team Lead/suggested: Michael Henry (UMKC) Developer Lead/suggested: Stakeholders: Education Team, Kyle Pace https://sites.google.com/site/kcg2education/ Notes:

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9) DIY Health Sensors Teams will seek to make one of the following: (a) Combine a digital scale with a Raspberry Pi and USB WiFi stick to create a scale that automatically records weight readings and provides longitudinal readouts on demand (via WiFi) to a phone or laptop in the home; (b) Combine a digital home blood pressure cuff with a Raspberry Pi and USB WiFi stick to create a blood pressure device that automatically records pressure readings and provides longitudinal readouts on demand (via WiFi) to a phone or laptop in the home; or (c) Use a transmitting blood glucose sensor (for diabetics) to send readings to a smart phone which will only re-transmit them to healthcare providers over a secure SDN link. Team Lead: Developer Lead: Notes:

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10) Smart Streets -- Safe and efficient transportation systems that detect situations to prevent accidents and optimize traffic management in KC. "Smart" traffic systems could use automated video analysis from cameras at intersections to dectect pedestrians, wheelchairs, bicycles and other traffic situations to prevent accidents. Detecting cars, busses, etc., might allow city planners to better time traffic lights, reduce traffic, and improve efficiency. Team Lead/suggested: Developer Lead/suggested: Notes: Most pedestrian fatalities occur in crosswalks. Mock up scenarios to model behavior that could be observed by, e.g., video cameras on stoplights. There are a couple of researchers within the US Ignite/GENI community working on this -- in particular, KC Whang at Clemson University. Python and other langs have good visual detection libraries. - http://opencv.org/ Hacked kinect to be wired up to this kind of thing? Also industrial style Kinect devices, designed for outdoors with hundreds of tracking points. Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt, and a couple of his graduate students working on making an entire learning framework/curriculum around real-time transportation grid. Mozilla ignite seed team: "Optimizing Public Transit" -- helping transit planners and bus drivers make decisions based on analysis of real-time data.

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11) Better Weather Prediction A team at UMass/Dallas-Fort Worth lead by Mike Zink is using low-cost small RADAR deployment and network-on-demand capabilities to detect and analyze severe weather including tornados, flash flooding, etc., only when it's needed to save lives and costs (e.g. via Internet2 connection between Dallas and KC). Team Lead/suggested: Developer Lead/suggested: Notes: For this project to be relevant, KC Public Safety departments would need to be involved and might need to consider investing in low-sky radars like those now being utilized in Dallas-Ft. Worth.

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12) Public Safety Android App (for Google Fiberhoods) Android App that can alert public safety access point (PSAP) to report both emergency and non-emergency events of interest to public safety and postentially include voice communciations and pictures / videos sent directly to the PSAP. For the Hacking the Gigabit City, demonstrate such an Android App with a goal of eventually persuading Google to allow the application to work over any accessible Google WiFi point. (Also, an Android App for Neighborhood Watch described below.) Team Lead/suggested: Developer Lead/suggested: Notes:

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13) Application-as-a-Service platform for business development and/or education Imagine setting up a business in KC gave you access to a turn-key computer setup that with a click provided access to software such as Microsoft Office, Excel, database software, automatic backup, customer relationship management software, etc., etc. All you need is a low-cost computer that can connect via high speed network to the cloud computing environment where all of this is running. Team Lead/suggested: Developer Lead/suggested: Notes: Somebody would have to pay for this so licensing would obviously be a consideration. Also great for more public benefit type applications-as-a-service such as something library-based or community college based that gave access to powerful, expensive software more efficiently and less expensively. The apps could run on the local cloud facility (eg US Ignite Rack) and use gigabit paths from the local cloud servers to virtual desktops in homes and small businesses (the library patrons or community college students). [Note: This can already be done via VMWare, but the library will need scheduling / reservation / queuing to share the small number of server copies of each software app and not run afoul of licensing restrictions.]

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14) Next-gen small business This team would develop one unique small-business app that can only be provided via a gigabit network. [Probably from a local cloud.] Live-stream viewing environment —Create a live stream viewing environment where online viewers can interact and participate in the viewing experience (e.g., change camera angles or shots). For other project ideas, see also examples in #5 above. Team Lead/suggested: Brandon Cummins (Paris of the Plains Cocktail Festival, video producer); KC Sporting? KC Chiefs? Royals? Kauffman performing arts center? Developer Lead/suggested: ?? Stakeholders: Arts Team, Middle of the Map Music Fest

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15) Tomorrow's web today: new websites on ultra fast networks Design a website with a user experience that can only be fully realized over a high-bandwidth connection (like the difference between Flash/no Flash used to be). Team Lead/suggested: John Kreicsberg? Developer Lead/suggested: ?? Stakeholders: VML? P3? Other agencies/creative shops?

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16) Next-gen home This team would develop one unique in-home app that can only be provided via a gigabit network. [Probably from a local cloud.] // Another way of thinking about this: what would Google Fiber Event Space want to demonstrate in their home setup? // Pre-fetching & pre-caching content..

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18) Civic participation anywhere Create platform for easy access to video of meetings, civic events, government operations and associated content such as digital copies of the budget, interactive ways to given citizens voice, access to data sets, etc. Team Lead/suggested: Code for America fellows? Mayor's Office? Developer Lead/suggested: Notes: I'd love to see an archive of things like city council meetings, etc. Searchable by transcript?

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19) Enhanced City Planning Use gaming mechanics, 3D mapping and GIS elements to foster public engagement in city planning processes. Interactive, real-time response requires gigabit + rack capabilities. CfA would like this to be the Civic Tech track and have proposed the following statement: Create regional civic tech solutions that foster public engagement in city planning processes and utilize public data sets and existing open source technology. Team Lead/suggested: Nate Allen Developer Lead/suggested: Stakeholders/suggested: Code for America fellows, Nick Budidharma, Jase Wilson Otherlab, school districts // Reminds me of the CHAnge project that some of the folks at Hackanooga wanted to put together. It was one of the teams that pitched Mozilla Ignite but was not funded and has since disbanded -- but maybe they'd be interested in trying to put their shoulder into it again.

These are all works in progress so please fill the wiki with your ideas and thoughts! And, again, if you don't feel like editing the wiki please drop us a line at ignite at mozillafoundation dot org.

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