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

Thu Dec 10 12:24:23 UTC 2009

Well done!!!

Best
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On 10 Dec 2009, at 12:07, Becky Hogge wrote:

> 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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>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>> ____
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>>
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