Cleveland Documenters Updates

[lcaswell]

I'm Lawrence Caswell, field coordinator for Cleveland Documenters. A few things:

THE MAIN THING: The Cle Docs team has decided to focus primarily on Cleveland City Council for this pilot year.
Capacity and impact were the main factors in the decision. Of note: all of Council and the mayor are up for reelection next year. This doesn't mean we won't be documenting other meetings. It does mean that we need to make sure the docs.org pages for Cleveland City Council and its committees have the information our documenters will need. We’re reviewing those pages now.

2 questions:

• What can I do to help?
• We have been added to a mailing list for info from Council. Would access to that email be useful for City Scrapers?

The other updates:

• We plan to hold our first Cleveland Documenters orientation and “Covering Your Local Government” training in late October. We should begin assigning meetings the following week.

• Beginning this week, we’re holding Cleveland Documenters virtual “office hours” every Friday from 2-3pm via Zoom. Drop in during the hour to ask questions, meet others in the network, and to talk about how we can build this community. City Scrapers included!. Here’s the FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/800955484057069/

[pjsier]

@lcaswell thanks for this! Just an FYI I moved it to the city-scrapers-cle repo where we've been having more of the Cleveland-focused conversations

For the question about mailing lists, we've sort of scraped emails before, but only in cases where we didn't have an alternative so it might just be something to watch for now.

And for the last item we're watching scrapers for errors occasionally, but the status is also published at this link: Documenters.org scraper dashboard

[lcaswell]

Thank you. My first GitHub post. I want sure where it should go. On Sep 30, 2020 9:38 AM, Patrick Sier <[email protected]> wrote: @lcaswell<https://github.com/lcaswell> thanks for this! Just an FYI I moved it to the city-scrapers-cle repo where we've been having more of the Cleveland-focused conversations For the question about mailing lists, we've sort of scraped emails before, but only in cases where we didn't have an alternative so it might just be something to watch for now. And for the last item we're watching scrapers for errors occasionally, but the status is also published at this link: Documenters.org scraper dashboard<https://www.documenters.org/scrapers/> — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#8 (comment)>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AQZBVOPVUITARJAIMC4KRMDSIMYGRANCNFSM4R7BKYPA>.

[skorasaurus]

I'm Lawrence Caswell, field coordinator for Cleveland Documenters. A few things:

THE MAIN THING: The Cle Docs team has decided to focus primarily on Cleveland City Council for this pilot year.
Capacity and impact were the main factors in the decision. Of note: all of Council and the mayor are up for reelection next year. This doesn't mean we won't be documenting other meetings. It does mean that we need to make sure the docs.org pages for Cleveland City Council and its committees have the information our documenters will need. We’re reviewing those pages now.

2 questions:

* What can I do to help?

* We have been added to a mailing list for info from Council. Would access to that email be useful for City Scrapers?

The other updates:

* We plan to hold our first Cleveland Documenters orientation and “Covering Your Local Government” training in late October. We should begin assigning meetings the following week.

* Beginning this week, we’re holding Cleveland Documenters virtual “office hours” every Friday from 2-3pm via Zoom. Drop in during the hour to ask questions, meet others in the network, and to talk about how we can build this community. City Scrapers included!. Here’s the FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/800955484057069/

Thanks for the updates; I'll follow up with you via email.

@lcaswell thanks for this! Just an FYI I moved it to the city-scrapers-cle repo where we've been having more of the Cleveland-focused conversations

For the question about mailing lists, we've sort of scraped emails before, but only in cases where we didn't have an alternative so it might just be something to watch for now.

And for the last item we're watching scrapers for errors occasionally, but the status is also published at this link: Documenters.org scraper dashboard

Thanks sharing for sharing the dashboard link! We at Open Cleveland were opening each agency's page to see if there any were broken (no meetings were listed); the dashboard link is much more helpful.