[okfn-labs] Code review exchange

Fri Jun 7 17:24:57 UTC 2013

Hi Todd,

Thanks for joining the list - and please shout there when you need help!

Also wanted to point you towards this collection of US state and local
spending sources, on the Datahub, which might also be worth exploring:
http://datahub.io/group/us-state-spending-and-revenue-data

We'd love to see some of this added to OpenSpending.

Anders

On 7 June 2013 13:02, todd.d.robbins at gmail.com <todd.d.robbins at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ah! Now I feel the fool, having looked around the site some more. 10 US
> datasets! Sorry if I came across as xenocentric (nothing wrong if there was
> a European focus)! Just subscribed to the list and I'll hit you up on IRC.
>
> Also, I just found these data feeds from the US Federal Government:
>
> http://www.usaspending.gov/data
>
> Looks like we can add quite a bit, programmatically even!
>
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Tryggvi Björgvinsson <
> tryggvi.bjorgvinsson at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Todd,
>>
>>
>> On fös 7.jún 2013 15:03, todd.d.robbins at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Question: Is OpenSpending primarily European? I don't see much US data in
>> there. If there hasn't been much of a contribution from Americans in that
>> regard I can invest some time.
>>
>>
>> No, OpenSpending is not primarily European. The reason there are more
>> European datasets is probably because of the history of OpenSpending (it
>> has its roots in British and German projects).
>>
>> Our goal is to track all government spending from around the world so if
>> you want to contribute some data from the US that would be awesome! There
>> is some data in OpenSpending from the US:
>> http://openspending.org/datasets?territories=US but that's not nearly
>> enough ;-)
>>
>> Here's a cool project I know of from the States that uses OpenSpending as
>> a backend:
>> http://openbudgetoakland.org/
>>
>> This is just one of many projects/sites that rely on OpenSpending which
>> is why we are really firm about doing code reviews.
>>
>> I digress. It's awesome if you want to contribute data to OpenSpending.
>> If you need any help just ask on the openspending mailing list:
>> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/openspending
>> or our irc channel #openspending on Freenode. Thanks a lot!
>>
>>
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