[openspending-dev] OffenerHaushalt 2.0 - Tech Notes

Mon Jan 6 09:44:24 UTC 2014

Just wanted to say: this is *awesome* :-)

Rufus

On 3 January 2014 23:34, Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich at pudo.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Anders just prompted me to write up some notes about the beta of
> OffenerHaushalt.de that Stefan and I have launched today at
> http://beta.offenerhaushalt.de. The new site is the first version of
> OffenerHaushalt to be based on OpenSpending, using its API for all
> datasets. The site is an obvious evolution of the Slovakia site, presenting
> data from a federal, state and local level. The code is available at
> https://github.com/okfde/offenerhaushalt.de and licensed under MIT terms.
>
> Here’s whats new about this technically:
>
> * The site is a flask project which is configured via a YAML file that
> lists the OpenSpending datasets that should be included and adds
> specialised metadata.
> * All components of the site are frozen to HTML flat files using
> Frozen-Flask. The site is eventually served via S3 and CloudFront.
> * The tree map visualisation is now generated via D3, not theJit like
> those on OS. While it kills IE8, we get a much smaller footprint and better
> performance.
> * Thanks to bower and Python webassets we have a complete asset pipeline
> which automatically downloads dependencies, builds and minifies them. This
> means that the site has only one stylesheet file (with Bootstrap and custom
> rules), and three custom-built JS includes.
> * The site has a very simple CMS based on Flask-Pages and Markdown
> rendering.
>
> We’d be delighted to see people re-use the code for this in their own
> projects and to hear everyones ideas for how to extend it!
>
> Cheers,
>
>  - Friedrich
>
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