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

Thu Dec 10 12:07:15 UTC 2009

Absolutely brilliant news. Hats off to all!

2009/12/10 Jordan S Hatcher <jordan at opencontentlawyer.com>:
> Wow!
>
> Super cool and congrats!
>
> ~Jordan
>
>
> On 9 Dec 2009, at 20:13, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Gray
>>
>> Community Coordinator
>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
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