420 Summit

You get what you get

So, here’s the plan.

The lovely town that I seem to have landed in, Schenectady, has a terrible city website. It’s absolutely useless and I couldn’t even figure out when my kids start school. Nevermind legislation or really important stuff. It just ain’t there.

A sensible person would take all this taxpayer funded free data, present it in a logical way, and, you know, make it useful. Bus, school and garbage schedules all in one handy place.

Genius. I say, genius!

People might want to know when to take the fish out of the kitchen or when to leave the kiddies on the corner. Bus routes. AA meetings. Adult bookstores or good carpet cleaning. It’s a wild, wild world and people should be able to get it on. Or find it out. At their convenience.

Who knows what people might want to know?

You know who doesn’t, the City of Schenectady.

The only other show in town seems to be something called, Schenectady’s Virtual Internet Community? This site, while active, seems to consist of little more than a forum with some sort of cobbled on portal. It was hard to register, hard to find anything and not all that attractive.

I can do better, and think I shall. I need a project and I need some work. I’ll just invent both.