[okfn-coord] Fwd: Where Does My Money Go prototype

Wed Dec 9 20:13:45 UTC 2009

AMAZING NEWS! :-)

Very very pleased this has happened. As a strategic aside, I'd really
like to work on this as much as possible, especially on research and
piecing together information. I.e. core non-technical stuff.

For those of you that didn't know - I came to the Rufus with a 1 pager
probably around this time 2006, or early 2007. Thats what originally
brought me to OKF! Its always been a dream to do this project!

Jonathan

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> We've got funding from 4IP for Where Does My Money Go!! I want to
> express particular appreciation to Jonathan whose brainchild this is
> :)
>
> Some quick extra background: as per last 4IP related email Dan Heaf
> did get in touch a couple of weeks ago. Since then we've been working
> to fix up the proposal for editorial meeting today. Couple of relevant
> facts:
>
>  1. Our budget (I think) has been increased by 35k or so (to near
> 100k) in exchange for us including government income (tax revenue) as
> well as expenditure in the project.
>  2. They indicated that MySociety were already involved in some other
> work for them and they didn't see any great need to have them on this
> project (I think they are also more confident now about our ability to
> deliver). Of course we may still want to work with MySociety but we
> didn't do a joint application. I have yet to inform MS of this since
> this only was resolved over the w/e (this has been moving fast!)
>
> We now need to start planning pretty getting up and moving on this
> given 4IP's (and our) desired timeline to get this done by next
> election :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Rufus
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Daniel Heaf <dan at 4ip.org.uk>
> Date: 2009/12/9
> Subject: Re: Where Does My Money Go prototype (was: Re: Risks & Issues)
> To: rufus.pollock at okfn.org
> Cc: Tom Loosemore <tom at 4ip.org.uk>
>
>
> Rufus,
>
> We had our editorial approval meeting this morning. The good news is
> that the project is approved.
>
> The feedback from the session that will need to be taken into account
> is as follows:
>
> It's imperative from a C4 perspective that this product releases a
> beta for the day after the general election
> We feel the editorial of the product needs quite a bit of work. The
> current beta borrows too much of the language of government and
> budgets
> We need to ensure that this product appeals to the man in the street
> not the normal target audience of politicians and wonks. We would
> advise bringing a top class product manager on board
> We'd like to think about how you might use ScraperWiki to gather,
> clean and store some of the data costs you've provided
> Given that 2010 (onwards) will be the year of cuts we'd like to find a
> way for the user to simulate what happens to the model if they change
> certain things. Have you seen: http://www.trefis.com/home?from=icon
>
> Much to discuss but overall a big step forward today. The next steps are:
> 1) We need to finance approval. We'd like to do this before Christmas
> and working on diaries
> 2) We'll need to find time to discuss how to take in some of these
> changes. I know you are seeing Tom on Friday and I'm sure he'll
> discuss with you.
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
> _______________________________________________
> okfn-coord mailing list
> okfn-coord at lists.okfn.org
> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-coord
>

-- 
Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org