Coming from the land of "snow emergencies" we once had well over 2 feet of snow in one mega storm, discussions online about how the major cities compared in dealing with this snow was quite interesting. It went something like:
1. The liberal (left) approach: Remove the snow by hand as a job creation program. 2. The conservative approach: Require people to remove it themselves. 3. The libertarian approach: Encourage global warming as a market driven approach. Steve Sent from my iPad On Dec 8, 2010, at 5:02 AM, Tom Steinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > I just saw this headline (which it amazes me a politician should have > to say, really) > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11946901 > > It suddenly made me wonder if there might be some value in a minmalist > install of Ushahidi ( www.ushahidi.com) under a domain name like > "LetsClearIt.com". > > It could be very simple - people could just stick a pin in the map > with a statement like "I'll go out here at 6pm today and do some > shovelling - will anyone help?", get a URL for the problem they've > reported, and then they could email or tweet or facebook or whatever. > > Just a thought in case anyone is bored. I'm sure Adam or Sam would > lend access to Haggis (our somewhat shonky friends and family server) > if anyone wanted a go... > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > 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
