dev.chicago.gov launch

[jdkunesh]

In the past year, dev.cityofchicago.org has received 6.3k visits all year. It's not a bunch. Mostly, this site today is a set of cross-posted links pushing people to other sites, namely, digital. and data. coc.org.

The recommendation here would be to fold dev.cityofchicago.org content into digital.chicago.gov. Then dev.chicago.gov would be sunset as a public website and retained for use as an API or otherwise in the future.

Alternatively, dev.chicago.gov could remain as an independent subdomain specifically as a microsite tuned to developers, with blog content updated at digital.chicago.gov.

My concern with such a split is that we have no proof our audience segments itself that way or finds that distinction meaningful. IE– developers and nondevelopers are people along a continuum. We should combine and curate content for both audiences in one place, so there's little channel confusion. People understand that to get communications from DoIT/the city about technology, you can go to the digital. site.

• export blog content
• review, revise links to outside resources
• review microsite content and pull appropriate content to new site
• get dev.chicago.gov and coc.org pointed correctly