For this September's meeting we put out a call to regular attendees: what have you been up to? Anything you want to demo to the group?

We will have presentations on:

• Data lessons from recent Boston elections
• Complying with federal digital accessibility standards in Austin
• Management of cloud costs and assets in Cleveland.

Thanks to our volunteers!

Join the discussion in our Slack to share your thoughts and suggestions. Note: if your city's domain name needs to be added to the allowlist for Slack, ping Sam.

Want to participate in future meetings? Join the mailing list as we'll use that to send out meeting appointments and the meeting join link. This month's mailing already went out so ping Sam or hop on Slack to get the September invite.

Our July meeting is pushed back a week this year, to July 17th @ 12pm ET / 9am PT. We will be talking knowledge management. How do you and your colleagues capture and share information?

This is a discussion call. No presenters. We'll self-select into two groups:

• One focused on technical artifacts (git repositories, packaging, componentizing code)
• One focused on general knowledge practices (SOPs, documentation, workflows)

We're gathering ideas and discussion prompts for each breakout room. Join the discussion in our Slack to share your thoughts and suggestions. Note: if your city's domain name needs to be added to the allowlist for Slack, ping Sam.

Want to participate in future meetings? Join the mailing list as we'll use that to send out meeting appointments and the meeting join link. This month's mailing already went out so ping Sam or hop on Slack to get the July invite.

Next week we'll be demoing + reacting to AI in practice.

We'll have a few presenters give an informal talk about how they're using AI. Each will be followed by Q&A / discussion.

Presenters will cover whatever they want from this list:

• Applications of AI in local government: how are you now applying / do you plan to apply AI to improve services?
• What data + privileges do you give to an LLM (and what's don't you)?
• How do you mitigate risk?
• Lessons learned : what’s worked, what hasn’t, what’s been surprising
• What do you envision next?

Want to participate? Join the mailing list as we'll use that to send out the meeting appointment and join link.

Our March meeting is a "coffee chat", where respondents self-select into breakout rooms based on what topic they want to discuss. Our theme is the lifecycle stages of a project.

Breakout rooms will be for:

• Intake process
• Ongoing work (e.g., tracking it on a Kanban board)
• Evaluate outcomes
• Telling the story

Want to participate? Join the mailing list as we'll use that to send out the meeting appointment and join link.

Our first meeting of 2026 was on January 14th. We had a show-and-tell meeting featuring demos of three tools/products mentioned at our November meeting.