MassDOT Developers Meeting, Next Monday, August 9th 6pm

All,

I hope all is well. I wanted to reminder everyone about the MassDOT
Developers Meeting next Monday, August 9th at 6pm. The meeting will
be held at 10 Park Plaza in Boston at 6pm.

It has been a while since we have held a developers meeting and we
wanted to make sure to include any topics of interest to you on the
agenda. Please reply to this message with any topics you want
included.

We are plannning on discussing the launch of www.mbta.com/apps, our
initiative to raise the awareness of all your awesome applications.
We need your help to get the word out and your suggestions on ways we
can improve the site. Additionally, we will be answering any
outstanding questions on bus data and providing an update on rail
information.

Thanks again for being a part of this initiative! Our first
Developers meeting was just one year ago tomorrow and it is amazing to
think of all that we have accomplished in this last year. To that
end, check out this StreetFilms video posted on the MassDOT blog
titled "A Case For Open Transit Data." Together, we have accomplished
a lot for MBTA riders here in Boston but also been a leader
nationally. Congratulations on everything!

See you next week,
Josh

______________________________
Joshua K. Robin
Massachusetts Department of Transportation
Joshua...@eot.state.ma.us

MassDOT Developers Page: http://www.mass.gov/eot/developers 
Twitter: http://twitter.com/MassDOTdev 
Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/massdotdevelopers 

When stop numbers be posted at bus stops so people without smartphones
can text or call to find the next bus using some of the text based
apps?

On Aug 3, 6:08 pm, Josh from MassDOT <joshua.ro...@eot.state.ma.us>
wrote:
> We are plannning on discussing the launch ofwww.mbta.com/apps, our
> Joshua.Ro...@eot.state.ma.us

Suggestion:
In the future, we can setup a bus arrival info system at every bus stop just like many other cities are doing (I've attached a photo).
A little screen install at the bus stop will give passengers much more convince. Not everyone would like to retrieve bus arrival info via the web/sms.
This way is directly pushing information to the passenger instead inquire them by passenger themselves.

Justin Minggan Wei

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All,

I just wanted to remind you about the Developers Meeting tomorrow
night, Monday, August 9th at 6pm. The meeting will be at 10 Park
Plaza in Suite 3170. Please proceed up the escalators to the 2nd
floor to be signed in when you arrive at the building.

For those who have not been to 10 Park Plaza -- here is a map of the
location:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=&daddr=42.35184,-71.065992&hl=en&geocode=FeA8hgIdeJ7D-w&mra=ls&dirflg=r&ttype=dep&date=08%2F08%2F10&time=8:00pm&noexp=0&noal=0&sort=&sll=42.352225,-71.065241&sspn=0.003172,0.008256&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=18&start=0

Thanks and see you tomorrow,
Josh
> We are plannning on discussing the launch ofwww.mbta.com/apps, our
> Joshua.Ro...@eot.state.ma.us