[okfn-be] Apps For Bruges

Mon Mar 5 10:04:44 UTC 2012

Hi Andries,

This is great to hear! I think we better leave you guys to it because
you're doing a great job. If you need anything set-up, like an
appsforghent.be for Bruges, we're all up for it.

Kind regards,

Pieter

On 03/04/2012 01:54 PM, Andries De Reyghere wrote:
> 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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>>   1. Apps For Bruges (Pieter Colpaert)
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>>      presentation) (Pieter Colpaert)
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>> Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:12:38 +0100
>> From: Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at okfn.org>
>> Subject: [okfn-be] Apps For Bruges
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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
>> 	(was Re: presentation)
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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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