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

[Richard Pope]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Jordan Hatch <jordan at jordanh.net> wrote:
> Yep, I'll get to work on that. My Github username is JordanHatch.

added - I suggest we use the issue tracker to keep on top of things:

http://github.com/memespring/Ushahidi_Cuts/issues



>
> Jordan
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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>>
>>
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