Little Tech, Big Impact

Michael DucyOpscode@mfdii

Little Tech, Big Impact or Putting Tech to Work for Your Community

Michael DucyOpscode@mfdii

Elementary SchoolBoundary Realignment

Some facts about Westerville City Schools

Call to

Action!

The Realignment Committee

"An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will…The people

cannot be safe without information."

The PTA Meeting

The Realignment Committee Meeting

The Board Meeting

There are rules!

The little tech

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The Spreadsheet

• Allowed for rapid experimentation• Allowed for looking at the data from different

perspectives• Allowed “anyone” to create scenarios

The Maps

Scenario Building

Scenario Building over Beer

The first success

The second success

Getting called to the principal’s office

“For the ''superior morality',' of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be

thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this ''superior

morality'' is properly rather an ''inferior criminality',' produced not by greater love

of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger

Police, called Public Opinion.” - Thomas Carlyle

Lean School Board Committee

The final win

Next time

• Create a site/app that allows anyone to create scenarios

• Solve for the “optimal scenarios”• Leverage open source/real GIS systems• How can this be applied to other problems?