Funding Request: WICit Hosting

[roughani]

We've been paying to host WICit on Amazon Web Services. Total expenditures to date have been approximately $300. We've made efforts to reduce monthly hosting costs to approximately $30, but we would love for a community partner to step-up and help us sustain the platform with $1,000 annually so that we can feel confident in scaling the application and adding additional features. If you're interested, please drop us a line at hello [at] codeforsacramento [dot] org. Or comment below.

[marks]

@roughani - great app. I work for Socrata and came across this a while ago but recently came back to see what's happened lately. Related to this issue, I wonder if you all have looked into making it completely client-side and simply hosting it on AWS S3 (and even with CDN in front of it)? It appears to call the SODA APIs on the client side as-is.

Just curious if this is something I could potentially help y'all out with. Still hope you get funding to help with future development!

[roughani]

@marks thanks. I think we went with a server-side architecture because the API was only available temporarily during a beta phase and then went dark for a week or two before CDPH officially launched their open data portal. The good news is @jesserosato migrated the app to DigitalOcean yesterday, so now it's only going to cost us $5/mo. We have additional features planned, so I'll defer the issue to Jesse re: making it completely client-side.

[jesserosato]

Hey @marks, thanks a lot for taking a look at the project and for your suggestions! I think definitely think wicit could work as a completely client-side application. TBH, I didn't even think about that option when I started building (wicit started as an excuse to play with node, which turned into an excuse to play with angular...), but it's a really good idea! We're looking at a couple of features long term that will need to live on a server, but I'd like to isolate those as APIs anyways. I don't have time to do any of this right now, but if anyone out there wants to fork and take a run at it, I'd be happy to go that direction.

[jesserosato]

Keeping this open, as securing long-term funding/maintenance for deployed Code for Sacramento projects remains an issue.