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

Mon Oct 11 10:41:58 UTC 2010

Fantastic work guys!

@Richard: I've pointed wherearethecuts.org at cuts.memespring.co.uk if
you want to add the ServerAlias.

Rufus

On 10 October 2010 18:46, Jordan Hatch <jordan at jordanh.net> wrote:
> 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)
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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