[openspending-dev] Spending Stories Calendar

[Rufus Pollock]

On 14 January 2013 13:37, Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich at pudo.org> wrote:
> Actually, this is the use cases for two apps, spendingstories.org (the
> calendar) and mapthemoney.org (the CSO map), but we were discussing merging
> them to avoid further confusion. I think we'll begin with the basic calendar
> almost as a blog and then add semantics as we discover them - so the
> question there is just what the simplest calendar app looks like. We also

The simplest calendar app is probably just the web page.

You could always add in Timeliner (timeline + map in one ...)

> have a lot of the contact information for "related groups" already in GDocs,
> so this will probably end up as a speedy
> GDocs-to-Map thing in the first instance.

Sounds very sensible. As I said timeliner has timeline + map support
now (and for some time) and there should be some even further
improvements such as searchability and better embeddality soon if that
is useful ...

Rufus

> - Friedrich
>
>
> On 1/9/13 11:37 AM, Rufus Pollock wrote:
>>
>> My immediate thought here is: that's quite a lot of use cases ;-)
>>
>> Are there a few on which one could focus?
>>
>> This would help me offer useful comments as to tech options ...
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>>
>> On 8 January 2013 14:16, Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich at pudo.org
>> <mailto:friedrich at pudo.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hey Rufus,
>>
>>     (for others, context:
>>
>> http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2012/12/an-open-call-for-ideas-how-would-you-use-openspendings-data-calendar353.html)
>>
>>     I was trying to ping you earlier about a technical question, trying
>>     to get your sense about the Spending Stories Calendar. There's user
>>     stories under http://wdmmg.okfnpad.org/calendar, and we're undecided
>>     about whether these put it into Wordpress/Duct-tape/Recline/GDocs
>>     land or whether to have a bespoke Python app (perhaps using GDocs in
>>     the back-end). I know that you're biased towards "glue apps" more
>>     than I am, plus it's more hackable without Python dev time. Still,
>>     my sense is that having a proper app would be better in terms of SEO
>>     and reliability.
>>
>>     What do you think?
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>
>>       - Friedrich
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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