[EU-lobby-data] Fwd: Re: Design work for NGO Tactical Tech

Fri Dec 7 11:12:21 UTC 2012

Hi all,

I'm just forwarding this to you to keep you up-to-date. Friedrich, could
you answer their questions? Most of these, Tactical should now
themselves...

It feels a bit like starting from the scratch to me.

Best, Timo

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Betreff: Re: Design work for NGO Tactical Tech
Datum: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:52:46 +0100
Von: Mathilde <mathilde at tacticaltech.org>
An: Robert Dunn <robert.dunn at curveagency.com>
Kopie (CC): Craig Perks <craig.perks at curveagency.com>,  Peter McClory
<peter.mcclory at curveagency.com>, Friedrich Lindenberg
<friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org>,  Timo Lange <timo.lange at lobbycontrol.de>

Super that you got there!
I let Friedrich and Timo here in cc to answer your questions below - and
then we can start getting the ball rolling.

Of course, we completely understand that there will be more questions
and that you need as much info and detail as possible in order to get
this going, we all really appreciate it.

Thanks Rob,

Mathilde

On 12/7/12 11:44 AM, Robert Dunn wrote:
>
> Hi Mathilde,
>
> Good news!
>
> The two XML files from the 
> http://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/consultation/statistics.do?action=prepareView&locale=en#en 
> page that Friedrich has provided us with are usable.
>
> To get the site working our aim is to set up Drupal to pull these two 
> XML feeds from this site on a regular basis and populate the content 
> into the website framework however to ensure this is a feasible 
> process we would need you to confirm the following…
>
> ·Do we have permission to pull this data directly from the site? – If 
> we don’t then we need to be given another location which we can import 
> these feeds from
>
> ·Are the fields and formats going to always stay the same? – If these 
> are changed its possible that this will break the site so we ideally 
> need the data to stay as static as possible
>
> ·Are the XML files likely to be removed or moved to another location? 
> – If the site can’t connect to these feeds this will also break the site
>
> ·Does the data across both XML sites match up perfectly? (i.e. is 
> ‘Telefonica, S.A.’ in one file also called ‘Telefonica, S.A.’ on the 
> other) – If there are any differentiations then the links won’t be 
> appropriately shown.
>
> ·Are we going to need to store ‘old data’ as well as ‘new data’? (i.e. 
> if the XML feeds are updated to 2013’s data would we still need 2012’s 
> data to be available or will this be made redundant) – this is 
> important as if changes
>
> Upon answering these questions we can get the proposal contract 
> finalised for you to sign and then once we’ve received sign-off on 
> this we start our ‘define’ process which consists of producing 
> documentation covering user stories, the technical aspects of the 
> project and wireframing (all of which will be documented within the 
> proposal contract).
>
> As you can appreciate we want to make a site that works consistently 
> so we want to ensure that we spot as many potential issues now so that 
> we will avoid any pitfalls when it comes to building the project 
> therefore please be aware we may have a lot of other questions that 
> come out when we start the define stage.
>
> Rob
>
>

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