Posted by
Jennifer Bell on
Sep 21, 2008; 5:13pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Show-your-support-for-open-gov-data-at-ibelieveinopen-ca-tp1231p1234.html
Thanks to the people that signed up so far, and thanks for your excellent feedback. It's been pretty rushed getting the site up, so not everything got on the site that's on the roadmap.
(We're following a 'release early, release often' principle.)
See inserted.
Jennifer
--- On Sat, 9/20/08, Daniel Haran
<
[hidden email]> wrote:
> From: Daniel Haran <
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> Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] Show your support
for open gov. data at ibelieveinopen.ca
> To:
[hidden email], "civicaccess
discuss" <
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> Received: Saturday, September 20, 2008, 10:20 PM
> Hi Jennifer,
>
> I signed up. A few thoughts:
>
> -The home page looks a bit bare. Even with candidate
and
> party
> pledges, most of that page may best be used to convert
> visitors.
Working on it.
> -The flow is a bit confusing (I confirmed my email
address
> before the
> riding, which doesn't help). It would be neat to
know
> what happens now
> - does my MP get contacted? Do I hear back?
Good point. Will fix.
> -A call to action could be effective at the last
stage,
> e.g. asking
> people to tell their friends.
Good point. Will add.
> -Would you use infringing postal code => riding
data?
I'm not sure what this is. Perhaps I should find
out....
> If the project is accessible I can likely make changes
- is
> this on
> git / github?
The people I got the original code base from were very trusting and sent me an early version of their site that was filled with private data, passwords, etc. -- with the understanding that I wouldn't be sharing it widely.
I'd like to show them the modified package first, before posting it publicly, so that they can feel confident that there's none of their footprint left. This is only a short term inconvenience -- really, VisibleGovernment.ca is *about* open source software.
Thanks for the offer of helping with the code! I see we're in the same riding... very convenient. I'll send you a message offline so that we can chat.
Jennifer
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