eventually one or maybe two mac will emerge as the winner as we have seen in a lot of internet applications. rather than us picking before hand who should win, it is to have information go out and let the best app or two win, and at that point we will have a relatively uniform or widespread app. he said the thinking behind this with the open architecture? we are creating a platform and letting the people whose core competency and profession is to develop apps with whatever features they want, whatever user interface they want. whether or not it would get down to one or two winners is a question. the model is the open 311 platform, like us they are requiring agreements for somebody who wants to create an app employee into it. that are a number of different ways but which people can connect to 311; a lot of different ways people can access real-time transit data. we want to let the marketplace compete. whether or not we end up with one or two, the thing is that all of them pr
again i would express my strong personal support i think some taxicab drivers for that idea i will save the pontificating for later. thank you for saving the pontificating. it s st. joseph s day. in terms of the idea that we are opening this information up for the marketplace to develop an app or a series of apps, and let the best man win so to speak, it is something we are all excited about. what are the next steps available for us to make sure that this information does result in better taxi service for our city? next steps, that harkens back to one of my mottos in this job, one foot in front of the other. we have not gotten through most of the contracting process, we have established this regulatory framework; we are very anxious to get this underway in a short period of time and that is reflected in the schedule that we have for the contract. we are of the americas cup coming up, from many people today business is tough out there. all customer interest aside t
farrell, julia harte is the co-founder and president of a company that probably many of you have use and had heard of, event dates. julia and her husband launched event site in 2006. she has grown a two person company to one that now employs over 200 and has been named the top 5 places to work in san francisco in sf times. they help organize the plan, set uptick et sales and promote events of any size. and in 2012 had a total gross ticket sales of $600 million. before event right, she graduated from pepperdine university with a degree in telecommunications. she worked in television for mtv network and [speaker not understood]. working on such shows such as nip tuck, the haloed, rescue me, and morgan s [speaker not understood] 30 days. she has served orthctionv board of the village row which offers a variety of informative and creative and fun programs to educate and nurture the community. she is also active with the full circle fund promoting the next generation of community
screen are projects that all scored very well in terms of being multi- modal and approximate access and in terms of project redness. gist to give you brief updates of where they are at. the broadway street project is before the mta board and they are working through their secret clearance and hoping to get that cleared as well. they will return to this committee and most like lie along with the bag final recommendations in may with design for the project. the masonic street skate project domestic violence and sexual assault an old older and other pieces of the project. mta is work to go work to go reduce the project and look at what cost a little bit lessor be taken out and m t s an also looking to help offset what is being requested here. can i just ask you is there any danger that that may delay that critical project because of the pedestrian safety concerns and the depth on that street. is there any potential that that funding mechanism may delay it? sure. i will have
organizations that receive funding from san francisco to help people with this process. with a we would like to do and i would like to give credit to supervisors breed for the amendment in the ordinance that there is now amendment for community outreach. this is a broad base piece of legislation which is in a 30 year plan, but to put it in this ordinance is something we need to do with significant outreach to the community, to the existing city departments that are going to be plan checking this, but to really make sure that if someone can t afford to pay for this, there are avenues that someone can take and i m happy to have you come up to discuss the detail hardship of this process. i think it would be helpful. thank you. i m available for any other questions. supervisor executive director of the rent board. i don t want to insult your intelligence but i m going to assume you know nothing about our process. seismic work required bylaw that this category falls into is