Ed
If you do go down the latter route, have a look at (chat with) the group
doing a Manchester TheyWorkForYou
(http://code.google.com/p/mcc-work-for-you/) -- there may be common
ground. No sense reinventing the wheel (even if you use a different
language - you can at least make sure the apis are working in the same
direction).
There seems to be gradually forming a informal group of us working on
the issue of local government data. I'm doing OpenlyLocal.com (was
TheyWorkForYouLocal.com -- just waiting for DNS changes to take effect)
which seeks to aggregate local govt data and provide a unified way of
accessing it, and has over 40 councils on it already, though there's a
long way to go yet.
Cheers
C
Tom Steinberg wrote:
Hi Ed,
I think the two best stand-alone projects for volunteers at the moment
(ie ones that don't require you mastering one of our huge codebases)
are:
1.) Mobile phone versions of FixMyStreet.
2.) Scraping and parsing your own local council data, and then making
a good UI to make it more widely accessible.
thanks for stopping by!
best,
Tom
2009/7/6 Edward Pearson <[email protected]>:
Chaps,
First of all, I love what you're trying to do with MySociety, there are few
causes more worthy of attention than the governance of your own country.
I'm a web/app developer with a little spare time on my hands, and I'd love
to help out with some coding if I can. I had a quick look on the site and it
said my best bet was to post to this list and see if anybody needed a hand
with something.
Disciplines include Python, PHP, Perl, C/C++ & Java. Please feel free to
e-mail me about anything at all.
All the best.
Ed
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