Tom
Don't want to get into the debate about grouping the websites together,
but just noticed the item on the list "Build TWFY for the five biggest
councils in the UK". I vaguely remember seeing on this list about a
month or so ago that a group was doing TWFY in Manchester, and it struck
me then that this might turn into a template for local TWFYs, without
giving more work to MySoc.
Specifically there could be a front end and server software shared (and
jointly developed by? using github?) by local TWFYs, with only the
scraping and parsing of the council's info needing to be different. Does
that seem a sensible way to go. Obviously would be good if MySoc could
help with the coordinatation, and perhaps also the hosting, for those
who wanted it, but a decentralised approach might work, particularly
given the other demands on MySoc?
Just my $0.02
Cheers
Chris
Tom Steinberg wrote:
Hi All,
I'm sorry to sound like a stuck record, but we're severely resource
constrained, and consolidating all the sites together just isn't a
priority.
If you're wondering what the priorities ARE for the charity side of
mySociety, see below. These were decided by a hugely complex
spreadsheet based vote of about 30 people (core team plus the most
hardcore volunteers) at the yearly retreat a couple of weeks back.
We probably have the spare resource for maybe 50% of these this year.
So if I seem negative about new & random ideas, I hope you can now see
why...
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Election: Build a "who should I vote for" site based on voting records
Create a weekly stats email for each site using data extracted from piwik
Send a monthly newsletter email to users for each site
add "if you like this then please give us money" bit to all sites
TWFY: Redesign the user interface based on formal usability testing
Improve design of all (or substantially all) sites
TWFY: Add recent video clips to the "recent appearances" listing on MP pages
TWFY: Page for each bill to list related debates that people can
follow by email and RSS
Get ourselves a proper volunteer coordinator
Cross-selling mysociety bar on top of all sites
TWFY: Future business
WDTK: Temporary hiding feature for journalists
FMS: Let people say "me too" on a problem that was reported
Election: Enter your postcode, see a summary how your MP voted in last
4 years across key issues
Build TWFY for the five biggest councils in the UK
Ask people for testimonials in our regular newsletter
HFYMP: Send 6-monthly reminder to MPs, regardless of how many new pepole sign up
Create HFY Councillor for the five biggest councils or the five
councils with most people signed up for HFYMP
WDTK: List of "interesting requests" (curated)
Crowd sourced donation drive to buy adverts on buses and bus stops
Election: create a downloadable pdf cribsheet for each mp
Election: charge people to print and post above to 5 people they know
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