[ddj] Budget visualization tool for journalists

[Daniel Sedlacek]

Hi Avner,

It took our team more than a year to develop the tool, we hope to monetize
it by offering to private companies and this way to support our mission.
That is why it is not an open source project.

Thanks
Daniel


On 14 March 2017 at 17:49, Avner Kantor <avnerkantor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nice, but why not open source?
>
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Daniel Sedlacek <daniel at wikibudgets.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> We are a small team of idealists who developed a tool for visualizing
>> budgets.
>>
>>
>> *Showcase 1*: https://uk.wikibudgets.org/w/united-kingdom-budget-2015
>>
>>
>> Our mission is to visualize budgets of all public organizations of the
>> world, from governments and states, to agencies, offices and bureaus, to
>> cities and towns, to schools, hospitals and all public benefit corporations.
>>
>>
>> *Showcase 2:* https://uk.wikibudgets.org/w/united-kingdom-budget-2015
>>
>>
>> So far we only have data for UK, US and Czech Republic governments along
>> with all 6,280 Czech Cities and Towns.
>>
>>
>> *Showcase 3:* https://cz.wikibudgets.org/w/praha-2016
>>
>>
>> What you can do with the tool:
>>
>> 1/
>> Embed any of the visualized budgets into your article or blog for free
>> with a simple embed code.
>>
>> 2/
>> Create your own private budget <https://www.wikibudgets.org/pricing> visualization
>> from $9/month to support our project.
>>
>>
>> 3/
>> Write about our story - how our small team took on the world with our
>> mission <https://www.wikibudgets.org/#mission> to rationalize politics,
>> kill alternative facts, pierce filter bubbles and stop corruption.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Daniel Sedlacek
>>
>> CEO
>>
>> wikibudgets.org  | @wikibudgets <https://twitter.com/wikiBudgets>
>>
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