[open-government] API for brainstorming and example

[Simon Perdrisat]

Hi,

So apparently they are no standard API for a brainstorming application.

I got in touch with developer of ideatorrent a month ago. Sadly, this
application need a rebuild from scratch. For the moment, it is not in the
"Drupal way" and not flexible. BTW, I think we can almost do the same
without the ideatorrent module but with other more generic solution. They
are also a new version 6.x-2.0.x-dev <http://drupal.org/node/469522> at
http://drupal.org/project/ideatorrent but it need work.

I can help for that and also to create a clone of data.gov (this is really
easy) or better but harder http://www.socrata.com. Anyway, I think the data
server and the fancy visualization service should be completely separate
project.

I receive a mail from Claire Gallon but she didn't send to the list :/. She
create a catalog of "needed data" and she try now to get it for France. I
can push that on google doc and tranlsate it.

I can't access to ch.ckan.net :(. For my point of view having one main
domain for the "swiss open gov" (like openadmin.ch) would be more easy to
promote.


Regards

Simon


On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:41, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:

> Simon: we are currently in the process of setting up
> incubator.okfn.org. We've looked into lots of different solutions like
> IdeaTorrent. For more info see:
>
>  http://knowledgeforge.net/okfn/tasks/ticket/141
>
> Any interest in helping to set this up? ;-)
>
> Also FYI, we're currently talking to various folks about setting a
> Swiss data catalogue (at ch.ckan.net). We already have
> French/German/Italian translations we can use for the interface, but
> don't yet have Rumantsch! ;-)
>
> All the best,
>
> Jonathan
>
> 2010/8/16 Simon Perdrisat <perdrisat at gmail.com>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just subscribe to the list so "hello everybody".
> >
> > I'm interested to know more about exciting API and tools for
> brainstorming
> > in an open gov way. I find some API like http://open311.org/ but nothing
> for
> > brainstorming. They are also some open source tools like
> > http://www.ideatorrent.org but still is not an API.
> >
> > I live in Switzerland and we can wait for centuries before the gov open
> any
> > data. I'm affrayed if I create a data platform like data.gov nobody was
> > interested because it's empty...
> >
> > But a brainstorming platform is a tools and can be first used by really
> > small village and political group too. And so we start create a kind of
> > data. I hop also other peoples intersted by the subject  in the country
> > start to work together to push the open gov concept.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Simon
> >
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