2009/10/1 Tom Steinberg <[email protected]>: > 1. We know *exactly* what mySociety needs from this up front, namely > candidate data, and local political issues data.
So task 1 is to record the details of all candidates for each location, > 2. We don't want the wording on the site to mean we can't ask anything > else of the people who sign up. They might come up with awesome ideas, > and we didn't want to constrain ourselves. How about some sample tasks e.g.: 1. Transpose details of leaflets 2. Record dates of local meetings 3. Attend local meeting and take notes 4. Report details of candidates actions/editors letters in local papers 5. etc > Also, on the journalists issue, whilst I can foresee that we might, > for example, ask local volunteers to ask local newspapers to ask > refusenik candidates why they won't fill in the election survey, > that's definitely a task for some time in the future. First we need to > know who the candidates are! Yes, but if people think its opened commitment they won't sign up. If its 'spare 10 minutes' for this or take notes at a meeting you were going to anyway > Talking of which, if you have volunteered, you can start doing this > research now, even in advance of there being a UI into which to plug > it! :) J -- James Blessing 07989 039 476 Pablo Picasso - "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." - http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/pablo_picasso.html _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
