# 2018-03-06 Toronto Shelter Map

:date: Date: Tues, March 20, 2018 @ 7pm-9pm
:round_pushpin: Location: TWD
:family: Attendance:
- Andrew
- Zach
- Mary
- Jason
- Joey
- Peter
- Denis Carr

## Discussion Notes
- Jason and CG are getting in contact with Central Intake and will put Marjorie and Zach in contact as well
- What about summer cooling centres?
- would getting a proof of concept would be beneficial to the city joining us?
- Zach: SSHA needs to ensure data is secure
- Peter: maybe being a 3rd party information provider, working in partnership with smaller centres, is the path of least resistance?
- [Dixon Hall](http://www.dixonhall.org/) seems to co-ordinate multiple shelters
- Toronto Open Data:
- get shelter occupancy data
- historical daily (Q2 2018)
- possible realtime in future (Q2-Q3 2018)
- CD 24.9 Improving data collection of Toronto Homeless population
- For more information, [e-mail] or [e-mail]
- SMIS under audit, out of the cold calendar would be helpful

## Action Items
- Getting a demo of SMIS at CG's place on Wednesday 12-1pm
- Determine possible list of problems
- Drop all possible problems in Slack
- Next week: we can evaluate impact of the various problems

# Potential Problems
- Peter: Out of the cold calendar
- OOtC not currently connected with SMIS
- Therefore, don't know what's running when and capacities.
- Andrew: data aggregator & nice UI
- City UI sucks
- But: overlap with CG's project
- Joey: Lack of public data on shelter capacity