[okfn-be] Apps For Bruges

Sun Mar 4 12:54:29 UTC 2012

Hi all,

myself and Marc Portier were already talking about the track to host an Apps For Bruges (or "Apps by the Sea", as we call it :) - maybe including Oostende, etc..
We're also a member of NextAtBruges, and I think they could be a facilitator, but we need more power & people to work on collecting data sources.
Any feedback is much appreciated.

Cheers,
Andries

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> Hi everyone,
> 
> NextAtBruges on twitter showed interest in organising Apps For Bruges. I
> just finished a phone conversation with Koen Van Loo. He has contacts
> within the government of Bruges and is willing to do some evangelising work.
> 
> Is someone else within OKFN interested in co-organising this?
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> Kind regards,
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> Pieter Colpaert
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> Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 02:09:02 +0100
> From: Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at okfn.org>
> Subject: Re: [okfn-be] DierenTheater, parsing (lachambre|dekamer).be
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> Hi Laurent,
> 
> This is great work! How do you wish to advertise this to the public?
> What is the end-product you have in mind?
> 
> I think for this to become really useful for end-users we need an
> information architect to put all these things in order.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Pieter
> 
> On 02/25/2012 04:35 AM, Laurent Peuch wrote:
>> Ohai,
>> 
>> Some news: DierenTheater now provide nl data as well as fr data.
>> 
>> Sadly at the time I'm writing this (lachambre|dekamer).be server is
>> down again (it's the website with the worst uptime I know) so I can't
>> show you the result right now.
>> 
>>>> You can see the result here http://dieren.vnurpa.ethylix.be/lachambre/document/
>>>> One example with quite a lot of data http://dieren.vnurpa.ethylix.be/lachambre/document/1825/
>> 
>> This often happens the weekend, I'm wondering if it's because the dude
>> responsible to reboot the server is at home or because the admins just
>> shut down the server for the weekend.
>> 
>> Anyway, my next step will be to add a Rest API. I don't know how much
>> time this will take. Django seems to come with a lot of apps to do
>> this, maybe I'll find one that match what I want.
>> 
>> Also, I first wanted to parse the whole website before doing those 2
>> previous step but my motivation didn't follow (nothing funny seems to
>> be left to parse) so I'm building the API instead to confront my work
>> to reality and get feedback.
>> 
>> The current parsed data are:
>> * all deputies and some related informations
>> * all commissions and their members
>> * all law projects and propositions (the "documents")
>> * all written questions (there is more that 60 000 of it since the
>>  48th legislation)
>> * annual reports
>> 
>> (Note: the web interface showing the data isn't fully up to date.)
>> 
>> I'm not parsing any pdfs yet.
>> 
>> After this, this will be between parsing new data and building an
>> intelligent automatic update strategy (doing a sequential parse of
>> the whole website every night seems a bit overkill and some part like
>> the commissions agenda are likely to be changed way more often).
>> 
>> Have a nice weekend,
>> 
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