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

Sun Oct 10 17:34:41 UTC 2010

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Richard Pope <richard at memespring.co.uk> wrote:
> 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/issue

There's an install running off the contents of the github repo here:

http://cuts.memespring.co.uk/

(temp domain obviously)

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>> 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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