Steven Thanks for the comments. Still trying to work out the best way to get community involvement (and it is still very much at proof-of-concept stage). Finding a way that's powerful yet joe public-friendly is not a trivial task.
I like the idea of online public meetings. Some of the stuff you've mentioned (feeds, geotagging stuff) is fairly straightforward (though it still has to be coded of course), and B&H and Newham both use Modern.gov, so they've already had the basics parsed, and should soon have the meeting minutes online (assuming I get some time this weekend to finish the coding for that). Also keen to here about any other datasets (the usual suspects, of course, like boundaries) that people would like to see online. Cheers C Steven Clift wrote: > This is a huge piece of the puzzle that we've wanted to help get > "what's new" announcements and documents into out local Issues Forums. > > I've said for years that providing timely online access when people > can still act on the information is a huge opportunity. Without > personalized alerts, I haven't viewed burying a document ten layers > down on a website as functional access. > > I'd love for example to see a simple, "Upcoming Public Meetings from X > Date" e-mail alert and the moment the full set of meeting > handouts/reports are posted, a meeting specific alert generated. > > While traditional TWFY is about "You," it could also be "Us." We've > found that the simple act to pointing out upcoming > meetings/agenda-items in our group Issues Forums helps spur local > conversation that decision-makers actually can use because it is on > the agenda so to speak. Most participants or council staff don't take > the initiative to do this manually. So if you scrape it, let's bake it > together. (We will also promote individual sign-ups, but my strongest > interest is getting stuff into a space where people can discuss it > publicly with a critical mass of their community members.) > > So if you start scraping Brighton and Hove or Newham (or Oxford and > Bristol and have the ability to hyper-focus on neighbourhood relevant > data), let E-Democracy.Org know. > > Also, around public meetings, I have some ideas on the shelf that > might be of interest: > http://pages.e-democracy.org/Project_ideas#Democracy_Pulse:_E-Democracy.Org.27s_comprehensive_package_for_upgrading_local_democracy_through_information_and_interactivity > > Cheers, > Steven Clift > E-Democracy.Org > > P.S. http://e-democracy.org/bh http://e-democracy.org/newham > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
