[OpenSpending] [okfn-br] OpenSpending in Brazil (also the HackerBus)

Sat Apr 7 17:29:13 UTC 2012

Working :)

And it's awesome!

http://openspending.org/ribeiraopreto-budget-2011/

I'll give a workshop on the hackhaton at the OGP so we can load tons of
data on it ;)

[]'s
Pedro Markun
ps: Thx to Edson, a THacker working inside a public body that deals with
accountability in SP (TCE-SP) we've lots of good CSV budget data from all
the cities in the state :D
http://www.portaldocidadao.tce.sp.gov.br/municipio_downloads/despesas/

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Pedro Markun <pedro at esfera.mobi> wrote:

> Hey Lucy,
>
> actually I didn't try again yet. Good to know it is working, will try it
> this weekend :)
>
> []'s
> Pedro Markun
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi Pedro,
>>
>> Good idea to meet in person.
>>
>> Are you still having problems with the upload? Are you talking about
>> the interface or a command line load? The inter. It is now however, in
>> a different place to where it was 6 months ago: Datasets >
>> [Intermediary box] >  Import Dataset.
>>
>> Let me know if you are still having problems at what point it is going
>> wrong and I will try and sort you out!
>>
>> Lucy
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Pedro Markun <pedro at markun.com.br>
>> wrote:
>> > Awesome. I've some data already ready from several others cities. Lets
>> talk
>> > about this also at the hackathon!
>> >
>> > We can do a sprint to get DF data ready.
>> >
>> > via mobile
>> >
>> > Em 05/04/2012 12:02, "Everton Zanella Alvarenga"
>> > <everton.alvarenga at okfn.org> escreveu:
>> >
>> >> Pedro,
>> >>
>> >> use the hackebus to scrap this data is an awesome idea and I think it
>> >> fits together with an idea I've discussed with Lucy [1] about writing
>> >> a manual on open spending in Brazil taking into account its
>> >> particularities of each city all over the country.
>> >>
>> >> http://wdmmg.okfnpad.org/manual
>> >>
>> >> For the Brazilian incubating chapter, I've been focusing in São Paulo
>> >> and there appeared volunteers willing to track the money in the city
>> >> of Mossoró (Mateus, you here?), a quit different situation of São
>> >> Paulo and its biggest budget of the country.
>> >>
>> >> Today I am also to meet professor Gisele, from University of São
>> >> Paulo, who has a lot of nice ideas on how to improve open spending in
>> >> Brazil and we want to set a roadmap with a collaboration between
>> >> GPOPAI USP <http://www.gpopai.usp.br> and OKFn Brasil.
>> >>
>> >> So if we could go all over Brazil as begin to *report* the situation
>> >> of cities visited, this could be a great step for the manual we are
>> >> planning to do.
>> >>
>> >> Lucy told me she is coming to São Paulo on 20 April (Lucy, any change
>> >> of coming on 19th in the day of the event with Rufus and Helen?), so
>> >> we could make a general meet up only about open spening (ccing Thiago
>> >> Rondon, who have done a great job for the federal and state of São
>> >> Paulo budget with data available!).
>> >>
>> >> Tom
>> >>
>> >> [1] http://wiki.okfn.org/Chapter/Brazil/encontros/os-br-20120228
>> >>
>> >> 2012/4/5 Pedro Markun <pedro at esfera.mobi>:
>> >> > Hey all,
>> >> >
>> >> > dumb-question. Is the openspending import tools working?
>> >> >
>> >> > I would love to get that into the hackerbus travel workflow -> go to
>> a
>> >> > city,
>> >> > scrape the data, push it into openspending...
>> >> >
>> >> > the last time I've checked it was not working (+6 months ago). so
>> that's
>> >> > why
>> >> > I'm asking...
>> >> >
>> >> > []'s
>> >> > Pedro Markun
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
>> >> Open Knowledge Foundation Brasil
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