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

[James Casbon]

Great work!  This is really exciting stuff.

2009/12/9 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>:
> 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
>>
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