Name: Vacant Storefront App w/ Astoria Tech
Start: 2020-03-07T11:30:00-0500
End: 2020-03-07T12:30:00-0500

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Vacant Storefront App w/ Astoria Tech

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Astoria Tech recently launched the Location Wishlist app (https://vacant.astoria.app), a tool to gather community input on what businesses / storefronts they'd like to see open up at specific vacant locations. It works as follows:

Anyone in the community submits a vacant storefront (with photo)
That location gets a unique URL, which we print out a QR code sticker for
We post the sticker near the vacant storefront
People scan the QR code and submit/vote on what they wish would open there

On top of gathering community opinions which aren't being gathered anywhere else, the app (and all Astoria Tech content) was developed completely by volunteer engineers from the Astoria Tech Group. We coordinate online and have a monthly hack day to plan out next steps and get work done/started.

A few core contributors to the project will go over the specific trials and lessons from developing this app, the immediate goals and hopes for the app, and the overall community project vision for Astoria Tech.

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