Dec 7 Update

Author: mzagaja

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+Greetings Civic Hackers!
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+We were excited to learn today that former Boston CIO [Jascha Franklin-Hodge has been named Mayor Wu’s Chief of Streets](https://twitter.com/jfh/status/1468245847456559111?s=21). Jascha is a Boston resident that did lots of great work when he was at DOIT. I had the pleasure of working with him briefly as part of the [Youth Jobs project](https://youthjobs.mapc.org) I did at MAPC and am excited to see what sorts of innovative ideas he will bring to the streets of Boston.
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+What we’re reading & watching:
+- If you want a fun story about government procurement officers preventing a mess, [this episode of John Carreyou’s Bad Blood](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-9-the-military/id1575738174?i=1000533010771) podcast was a riveting look into how Elizabeth Holmes tried to pressure the military into buying Theranos technology that was not yet proven.
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+Matt & The Code for Boston Core Team
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+# Project Updates
+
+## [Mattapan Mapping](https://github.com/codeforboston/mattapan-mapping)
+* Making steady progress
+* Did a neighborhood walk in Oct and have new data for website. Content!
+
+## [Clean Slate](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ18U2gHI97WqD-C63NvORCZu1vQX6hfLI4-1FOIA1neaaXw/viewform)
+* MRCC - talking with them
+* Onboarded new designer.
+* Testing framework bumped to version 3 and fixed DOM stuff with version 5. Switch to using API to check for server connection.
+
+## [Police Data Trust](https://github.com/codeforboston/police-data-trust)
+* Pull Requests have slowed down but progress continues down
+* Fixed Flask end user issue to avoid new code writing.
+* PR for tooltips and pop-ups for map.
+* Look at how we’re doing with data scraping.