[OpenSpending] The open spending handbook sprint

Mon Nov 19 10:27:04 UTC 2012

Hi David,

Very nice work indeed. Just wondering whether you might be interested
in doing a short piece on it for the OpenSpending blog?

All the best,

Lucy

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:56 PM, David Cabo <david.cabo at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Hi Maurice,
>
> Is it that the Web front-end for your openspending site was built using the
> source codebase and templates from  the wheredoesmymoneygo.org  but instead
> of using the APIs to data stored in the public OpenSpending platform, you
> developed your own custom back-end and APIs? Just wanted to make sure we
> understand the approach, as we would love to replicate the look & feel /
> functionality of your site..
>
>  Not really, no: I considered initially to set up an instance of Open
> Spending, and use the JS libraries and APIs to build a new frontend matching
> what the administration wanted. But Python turned out to be not an option in
> their case, so I ended up building the whole thing - both the front- and
> back-end - from scratch, in Rails. (It's not a full-blown, generic,
> user-friendly, CKAN-integrated backend, so it's much simpler than OS, of
> course.)
>
>  In the project I'm involved now the situation is the reverse (at least
> right now): they require Python, so I'm most probably going to convert the
> front-end (which is mostly Javascript anyway) to Python, and integrate that
> with an Open Spending backend. It's not 100% sure at this point, and I'm not
> sure how much effort will be involved, but I can keep you posted.
>
>  regards,
>
> /david
>
>
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