[wdmmg-discuss] Where are the cuts? mini-app

Thu Apr 29 08:05:17 UTC 2010

You may have a good reason for not doing this, but giving people an optional
field to enter their name and email would be a good way to gather addresses
for highly-motivated users (i.e. those who will fill this form) so that we
can contact them in future. The boxes would be (at the bottom of the current
form):

Your name (optional)
You email (optional)
[check box] Send me occasional updates from Where Does My Money Go?

On 28 April 2010 19:02, Lisa Evans <lisa.evans at okfn.org> wrote:

> Our 'Spending Cuts' crowdsourcing project now has a page:
>
> http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/cuts/
>
> Please let us know what questions you would cut, as the form should be easy
> to complete.
>
>
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Lisa Evans wrote:
>
>  I replied below.
>>
>> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Richard Pope wrote:
>>
>>   I think this is really worth doing. It could be really simple,
>>>  basically a form that lets you enter:
>>>
>>>  - an authority name
>>>  - and amount, or maybe amount range e.g. £1-2  million
>>>  - a reference / citation
>>>  - details (optional)
>>>  - geographical area (optional)
>>>  - tags / categories
>>>
>>>  Then just have a running total, a url for each cut / authority etc
>>>
>>>  There should be no space for comment, the idea is to become the
>>>  attribution point for people discussing cuts, much in the way The
>>>  Straight Choice is slowly becoming for people talking about leaflets.
>>>
>>
>> Great, because it means we don't have to wait a year or more for the data
>> to come out in a report -- we can get the cut as it's announced. The members
>> of Democracy Club could be invited to gather this data too.
>>
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