[open-economics] OpenHDI is off

Wed Mar 16 16:23:21 UTC 2011

On Mi, 2011-03-16 at 14:14 +0000, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> On 16 March 2011 13:25, Dirk Heine <dirk at common-future.org> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Two things regarding Yourtopia:
> >
> > 1. the OpenHDI.org page does not work well, it does not show the same as
> > Yourtopia.net (including no "start quiz"-button). That is a big problem
> > for me, because I quoted the first URL in a job application that is
> > currently being reviewed. I would appreciate if OpenHDI.org could work
> > as yourtopia.net does.
> 
> I'm not sure I follow. http://www.openhdi.org/ works fine for me (I've
> even just made it redirect to yourtopia.net -- though working before).
> http://openhdi.org/ did not work because of no dns but i've just fixed
> that (may take some time to propagate).
> 
Thanks a lot, now openhdi.org does look the same on my machine as well.
It might have just been an idiosyncracy or too much coffee in final exam
prep ...;-)

> > 2. I have drafted a suggestion how Yourtopia could be developed further
> > for the current EU debate on social progress indices. Maybe we could
> > discuss this and provide an OKF-input to that political debate even if
> > we do not have the resources to programme it. You find my proposal at
> > http://wiki.okfn.org/ProgressVote
> 
> Great. Let's review. I'd also like to make the finishing touches to
> yourtopia.net.
> 
> @Dirk, @Guo: do either of you guys or coder colleagues have time to
> apply the final fixes we've been discussing. I unfortunately don't at
> the moment but could help others who were seeking to do so. Perhaps we
> should arrange another openeconomics catchup (perhaps we can integrate
> this with the OpenSpending meetups:
> http://wiki.openspending.org/Meetups which takes place bi-weekly with
> next one a week tomorrow)
> 
My final exams are just about to start and immediately afterwards I will
have to move house to Mumbai, so currently I would have time problems
with making it for a meeting. But from April 11th I would be available.
Very sorry for the delay.

> > I would be extremely grateful if somebody could solve the first issue
> > soon as the stakes for me in this being solved are not insignificant and
> > it is somewhat urgent. Sorry that I did not check if the URL works
> > before quoting it.
> 
> See above.
> 
> Rufus

Thanks again,
Dirk