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ChaloBEST began in 2012 as a studio-based learning experiment at Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) to make transportation data publicly available over the web, SMS, smartphones, and print media using free and open source software, geospatial web databases, and community crowd-sourcing.
In 2012-3 we were supported by the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS) as first-prize winners in the Sankranti Transform Urban India competition held at the India Urban Conference 2011. For a quick intro, see our YouTube ChaloBEST Pitch from November 2011.
Since 2014 we have continuing support from Topomancy LLC and large group of volunteers and enthusiasts. ChaloBEST has been made possible through the kind assistance of officials of BEST (Brihanmumbai Electric Supply & Transport Undertaking) to our students and mentors since 2011.
- ChaloBEST Arrest API for new documentation on the ChaloBEST API.
- Back End for documentation on back-end functions and the application programming interface (API) for ChaloBEST and BusRoutes.in.
- Web Services for older notes on various free and open source web services, APIs and data standards for transport and multi-modal routing.
- DatabaseImport for step-by-step docs on how we used to import, check and transform BEST route, stop, and schedule data into the ChaloBEST database from 2011-13.
- BEST Log for old logs from 2011-13 of anomalies found in the database, for feedback to BEST.
- GTFS for how we have created a feed in in the open data standard, General Transit Feed Specification, for use with OpenTripPlanner, Google Transit and other web routing services.
- BEST Database for documentation of the database schemas, models, and post-processing (outdated).
- SMSFireBrigade for emergency fire drill instructions to invoke whenever ChaloBEST SMS goes down.
- SMS How-To for language translations of ChaloBEST SMS how-to instructions for our RapidSMS application instance at http://sms.chalobest.in
- SMS Queries documents the query syntax for the SMS service (very outdated, needs to be updated).
- Mobile Dev for guidelines for J2ME and Android smartphone development by MacGregor Tech since January 2012.
- Mobile Front End for the specification for Android design and layout for ChaloBEST.
- Front End for the specification for the website design and layout for ChaloBEST and BusRoutes.in.
- User Studies for usability research and design concepts from UserINNOV.
- Graphic Design for notes and ideas on overall graphic design and principles of ChaloBEST.
- MBillionthAward2013 for our final application to the MBillionth Award, May 2013, in collaboration with FSF India.
- UNHabitatYouthFund for our final application to the UN Habitat Youth Fund grant programme, April 2013, in collaboration with FSF India.
- Mobiles4Good for our short-listed entry to the Vodafone Mobiles4Good http://mobilesforgood.mbillionth.in/ competition, April 2012, in collaboration with IIHS (we did not win).
- Sankranti Proposal for our first prize-winning pitch in the Sankranti Transform Urban India | http://transformurbanindia.com at the India Urban Conference http://iuc2011.in, November 2011.
- The Problem: "Sustainable Mobility in Mumbai", our original and first problem statement from October 2011.
- The Solution: "Free & Open Source SMS, Web, Android, Print Media", our proposed answer to the problem, from October 2011.
- Memorandum of Understanding by the project partners in January 2012, updated to October 2012.
- Project Agreement by the partners in July 2011, now subsumed and superseded by the Memorandum of Understanding in January 2012.
- Hacker Bhojan for the task-based developer roadmap towards a ChaloBEST public beta.
- Freemap Studio 2012 for docs on the ten-day hacker camp held with Topomancy and Groundtruth Initiative at CAMP and Gnowledge Lab in Mumbai in February 2012.
- Workshops for documentations of hacker workshops held at CAMP and Gnowledge to start the project, earlier known as SMS-BEST, in January 2011.
- Old SMS How To for SMS instructions in multiple languages, outdated since we simplified syntax in Feb 2012.
- SmartShehar Dev for feedback and reports on the proprietary app developed by Chetan Temkar, SmartShehar with ChaloBEST support from July to December 2011.
- LED Displays for a project proposal on SMS and web-enabled LED displays powered by ChaloBEST services.
- Older Stuff for outdated documentation and notes on the project from early 2011 when we got started.