[openspending-dev] Apps.OpenSpending.org - A Proposal

Sat Feb 9 10:54:48 UTC 2013

Hi Rufus,

I like the idea. We talked about something similar last week. We wanted to
create an Examples Page (i.e. https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery),
with the different visualizations that we've done for the sattelite sites,
that are not "widgetized" yet. Mostly the openspendingjs apps.

I think we should do both.

How you're thinking in splitting openspendingjs?

Cheers,
Vítor.

2013/2/8 Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>

> Hi All,
>
> I want to raise again the proposal from my mail in January [1] to create
> apps.openspending.org.
>
> [1]:
> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/openspending-dev/2013-January/000533.html
>
> *Aside: I'm not specifically worried about the domain so if people have a
> suggestion for a better name please say.
> *
> *In a nutshell: A space for lightweight (HTML+JS) apps associated to
> OpenSpending*
>
> This would be building stuff off the API (mainly in JS + HTML) plus
> possibly some stuff that was just standalone (but was OS related). I'm
> thinking of the sorts of mini apps already in openspendingjs but you could
> think of plenty more.
>
> If no-one pipes up to say this is a bad idea I can have a go at booting
> this in the next few days ...
>
> Regards,
>
> Rufus
>
> *## Implementation*
>
> Boot https://github.com/openspending/openspending.github.com and CNAME to
> apps.openspending.org
>
> This means any repo in this org with gh-pages becomes
>
> apps.openspending.org/{app-name}<http://apps.openspending.org/%7Bapp-name%7D>
>
> We could also use repo as an "overall" repo where people can list ideas as
> issues so you can link to this to give people a starting point
>
> *Aside: Could allow some full-on apps to get deployed via heroku and at
> xyz.apps.openspending.org*
>
> *## Extras*
>
> - have the base site (apps.openspending.org) to have a nice listing of
> satellite sites and apps.
>
> - split out openspendingjs apps straight away ...
>
> - provide some common css and js (openspendingjs?) so things have a common
> theme by default (and all link back to apps and OS.org etc)
>
>
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