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Since many people might not know what neighborhood they officially reside in you may want to incorporate this neighborhood boundary information:
http://137.122.133.36/neighbourhoodstudy.ca/mapwiki/mapwiki.html ... the Ottawa Neighborhood Study has good information about Ottawa's 80-120 distinct neighborhoods that we would likely want to incorporate somehow, if possible. Here is another related link: http://137.122.133.36/neighbourhoodstudy.ca/pmwiki/pmwiki.php and this is the Study's main website: http://neighbourhoodstudy.ca/?page_id=82 ... or, I guess it could just be done by Ward: http://ottawa.ca/en/city_hall/councilcommittees/mayor_council/wards/index.html

"not sure how much much of the data we've got so far, but it doesn't look like a lot of trees."

See Nov 20 email with updated logos.

"When you are offered the tree to adopt, it provides information on the kind of tree and the diameter in the box, but then once you've adopted it that information is no longer available. So we'd want to include that information in the automatic follow-up and we'd want to find a way to keep it visible after someone takes the plunge."

"My understanding is that the trees will be a certain colour if they have been adopted (red?) and if they are available for adoption, they will just turn up a different colour (green?)… perhaps it would be useful for the adopt-a-tree website to describe what the different colours mean (green means go/adopt; red means stop/already adopted).

I agree, once someone ‘adopts’ a tree we will need to set something up so they receive an initial follow-up e-mail with some instructions, and ideally the database of people doing the adopting will be easily accessible and transferable to NationBuilder, perhaps as a spreadsheet of data, or something."

"I signed up for a tree in my local park. It would be one of many, but it isn't clear to me which one I got, also no description."

When a tree is adopted it turns green and bounces ... and never stops bouncing, until the user stops viewing the page. It doesn't bounce the next time the page is opened. It doesn't provide any real information and is annoying. Remove the bounce animation by deleting or commenting out a line in app/assets/javascripts/main.js.erb
activeMarker.setAnimation(google.maps.Animation.BOUNCE);

Clicking on a tree gave me no information: the tree was near Heron Rd & Clover St.

Same behaviour, clicking on a tree gave me no information: the tree was north of Lakeside Ave near Bronson.

Some of the sponsor PNG images (icons) that appear on the page are tentative. I reformatted something that I found on their web-site and added it to adopt-a-tree project as a placeholder. See for example the icon for Diana Beresford-Kroeger.

The Province field when signing up provides just a list of US states, because it's cloned from adopt-a-hydrant. Keep the list of states for now, so adopt-a-tree can readily be used in the US, but add in a list of Canadian provinces and territories. For now, adopt-a-tree is only being used in Ottawa, ON, and specifying the province is not required.

The file with the list of states and provinces is app/helpers/application_helper.rb

Currently the developer version of the app is running for free at http://adopt-a-tree.herokuapp.com/ . This site can only handle up to 10,000 records (about 5,000 trees).

"We'll need an automatic email."

It's very easy to translate the adopt-a-tree app into a different language. This makes the app more inclusive of minority groups in the community, and is a good way for volunteers to get involved.

There were already several other translations with the codeforamerica adopt-a-hydrant app. I updated the Spanish one as a test, but there are still several Spanish messages that need to be translated.

If anyone wants to translate it into another language, let me know. It's just a matter of editing an existing file, or creating a new file. The current language files are at:
https://github.com/kenwebb/adopt-a-tree/tree/master/config/locales

A few long messages haven't been translated yet.
The database descriptions for lookup tables need to be translated.

The application is still using the original Terms of Service as found in adopt-a-hydrant for the City of Boston. These need to be edited.
See app/views/sidebar/_tos.html.haml

Katrina and I [Jason at Hidden Harvest] have been putting some thought into next year's harvesting process and had the following two comments:

We have found that asking "Have you seen the tree produce fruit or nuts?" is better than asking anything which includes the word "edible" since everyone has different perceptions of what is actually edible. For example, everyone would tell us that their black walnut tree bears nuts; however, very few perceive those nuts as being edible so only a handful would tell us that the same tree produces edible nuts.

In terms of process, if Hidden Harvest is going to harvest an adopted tree then ideally we would like to let the adopter know and we don't want to contact them without first having permission. We wonder if adding a note under the "...produce fruit or nuts?" question could help clarify the sharing of information? For example, "Note: we will be sharing information of food-bearing trees with Hidden Harvest Ottawa who may get in touch with you". That way the Adopters will be aware that we may be in touch with them (should we have the ability -- and permission from the City to harvest that particular tree).

"I didn't understand what the "Ecology Ottawa" field was for when signing up."

"not sure why it there is an Ecology Ottawa field when you are signing up. What goes there?"