[wdmmg-discuss] Using Ushahidi to crisis-map The Cuts

Sun Oct 10 12:35:54 UTC 2010

I'm up against it with ScraperWiki stuff, but I'm sure we can still
get this done.

Jordan, do you think you could have a go at getting a local version working?

I've created a github fork of Ushahidi here:

http://github.com/memespring/Ushahidi_Cuts

Let me know your github account and I'll add you (or anyone else) to
the project.

Richard

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> On 9 October 2010 13:09, Richard Pope <richard at memespring.co.uk> wrote:
>> I'm not sure if this is too political for OKF to do as an official
>> project or not, but does anyone fancy helping setup an install of
>> Ushahidi to monitor the impact of the cuts?  I have a server it can
>> live on.
>
> Yes, I think WDMMG would definitely be up for this. We have also been
> planning to move the existing 'where are the cuts' miniapp from
> wheredoesmymoneygo.org/cuts/ to a dedicated site and for this purpose
> have registered the domain name:
>
> <http://www.wherearethcuts.org/>
>
> Server offer is good though we also have space for hosting this --
> what is much more valuable is help setting it up :)
>
>> http://www.ushahidi.com/
>>
>> The kind of information I'd like to gather is at the impact end of the
>> cuts, so $x mental health project shut, $n people made redundant from
>> child services.
>
> I.e. the "hard" (and more important) info -- relative to the basic
> "these are the cut amounts" (which isn't trivial either!)
>
>> Ideally this would need to be up and running by the day of the
>> spending review. Tres news-worthy IMO.
>
> Agreed. Perhaps we can try doing a sprint on this next week -- I think
> we could get it all up and running in under a day given the work done
> so far!
>
> Rufus
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