Posted by
Jennifer Bell on
Sep 21, 2008; 6:24pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Show-your-support-for-open-gov-data-at-ibelieveinopen-ca-tp1231p1236.html
Thanks for your comments, see inserted.
--- On Sat, 9/20/08, Robin Millette <
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> From: Robin Millette <
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> Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] Show your support for open gov. data at ibelieveinopen.ca
> To: "civicaccess discuss" <
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> Received: Saturday, September 20, 2008, 11:35 PM
> Le Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:35:35 -0700 (PDT),
> Jennifer Bell <
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>
> > The website ibelieveinopen.ca that I mentioned earlier
> this week is now live. The site collects sigunups from
> citizens and pledges from political candidates on five
> issues related to government transparency. We're still
> working on tweaking the look/feel and adding more pages to
> display the results, but the basic signup mechanism is
> working and ready for use.
> >
> > Pledges 4 and 5 are about open access to government
> data, so should be specifically of interest to this group.
> I'll be sending out emails to MP candidates early next
> week -- it would be great to have a 'seed group' of
> citizen signups before then.
>
> I signed, I thought it was very simple and to the point.
> Daniel had a bunch of excellent points I won't repeat. I
> notice (perhaps it's a timezone issue) 5 Québécois
> already signed. Are you planning to offer the site in
> french? It would surely help me promote it inside and mostly
> outside Montreal.
Yes, there will be a French option -- however language selection / internationalization wasn't part of the free code base I received (natch). In the very short term, I'll be putting up a language change link that will ask for volunteers to help with translation.
> Are you using
>
http://www.elections.ca/content.asp?section=ele&document=index&dir=40ge/can&lang=e&textonly=false> for your list of candidates?
No. I've been using data from the party websites. At the time I was gathering the candidate names that list wasn't available. I'll double check my list with that one.
> And regarding postal codes and ridings, can you make that
> available right now as a web service, or are you going to
> release the data after the elections, or maybe even during?
That's the plan. However, I'm going to focus on UI improvements first.
Yes, it will be.
Again, thanks for your comments.
Jennifer
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