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

[Jordan Hatch]

I've setup the Map API key and positioning.

Jordan Hatch
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On 10 Oct 2010, at 18:34, Richard Pope wrote:

> 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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