Collaboration Call: June 29, 2018

1. Technical Updates

UK team

Martin - started on 1st of June and is the developer for the platform. He will be on leave from now until the 7th of August.
Martin recently added a new metadata field in the UK platform for controlling the sort order of the indicators.
Martin looking into an optional feature to embed HTML snippets (such as ESRI maps) instead of the built-in platform mapping solution. Final decision on how this will be used will be made once Ann is back.
1. UK was having issues with the current solution, in regards to boundaries and disaggregations. ESRI's tool creates a static HTML snippet that solves this problem. Rwanda brought this issue up as they have been forking and modifying the UK platform.

US team

Kali is planning on doing a thorough sweep of the US site before she makes her fork live. Will keep Brock in the loop when she hears from Armenia.
Phil has been keeping tabs on a project called Federalist, which helps to deploy and test static government sites, especially Jekyll. Federalist is in the early stages of looking into data management and visualization functionality. This group may call in at some point.

CODE team

Brock mentioned that there is a bug in the US platform with the translated pages - specifically in links to non-English goal pages, which are giving a 404. Phil knows that issue and will work on fixing it.
Brock has been focusing on the proof of concept using the UK code. That has been going well and now he is shifting into the multilingual work. UK platform is split into a few repositories and needs to think through how to include the multilingual stuff into it.
Stanford developed a local reporting platform for San Jose that could be interesting to review. They are using a different technology stack for their open-source development. Here is the link to an open-source Local Reporting Platform (LRP) for San Jose, a link to their GitHub repository, and a memo about the project.

Country/subnational interest in cloning the NRP

Rwanda was in the UK three weeks ago. Rwanda has already uploaded some data into the platform but they need to load the rest of the data and add any features that they want to the website. There goal for a live website was September. There is still a plan to send a few people from the UK there to help them at some point.
1. Rwanda wants to reuse the website not just for the SDGs but for any kind of statistics. Martin may be turning to these kinds of features when he returns..
Phil - are there offices in the US government that may be interested in collaborating with other countries? Phil met Jared Banks, the Division Chief, Office of Science and Technology Cooperation. He works with US and EU collaboration and may be a good contact for creating relationships with other countries. Phil and Kali will follow up on this later.