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

Sun Oct 10 13:01:12 UTC 2010

Yep, I'll get to work on that. My Github username is JordanHatch.

Jordan

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On 10 Oct 2010, at 13:35, Richard Pope <richard at memespring.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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