[OpenSpending] Need Visualization + Conversation

Tue Mar 5 19:07:34 UTC 2013

Hi Adam,

It shouldn't be hard. Disqus uses the page URL to know which comments to
show. As we already have visualizations that change the URL depending on
its state (i.e.
http://cameroon.openspending.org/en/council.html?name=tignere#/~/total--2009-
 and
http://slovakia.openspending.org/municipality/#kosice-dargovskych-hrdinov/year:2012),
all you would have to do would be to reload the right Disqus comments when
the hash changes.

They have documentation on how in
http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/472107-using-disqus-on-ajax-sites,
and an example in
https://github.com/disqus/DISQUS-API-Recipes/blob/master/html/disqus_reset.html
.

If you get to implement this, please send an email. This sounds like a cool
feature :-)

Cheers!
Vítor Baptista.

2013/3/5 Adam Stiles <adam.d.stiles at gmail.com>

> Hello,
>
> I am part of group in Oakland, CA, USA, called Open Budget -- we've been
> testing OpenSpending for possible use here to visualize our city budget. We
> are very close to making a final decision on what we will use.
>
> We like OpenSpending for many reasons, but one key criteria for our
> project -- creating a platform for citizens to *discuss* what they see *at
> each level* of spending -- is making it a challenge. We imagine that, *as
> one drills down* into the data, a new page (or more importantly, *a new
> set of comments*) is loaded so people can discuss that particular level
> of visualization.
>
> My question is this: what is the best way to use OpenSpending
> visualizations* in combination with a commenting system*, such as Disqus
> or something else, to achieve what I describe above? I now see --
> offenerhaushalt.at -- could using the complete OpenSpending interface
> allow a more seamless integration with conversation tools? How does one go
> about that?
>
> Any suggestions welcome. And let me know if there is anyone with whom I
> can discuss/email directly.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Adam
>
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> > From: Tryggvi Bj?rgvinsson <tryggvi.bjorgvinsson at okfn.org>
> > Subject: Re: [OpenSpending] openspending.at - how to display data
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> > Hi,
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> > Vitor's reply explained how things are usually done (which I think is a
> > pretty good approach - let openspending.org manage the analytical part
> > and create site that don't require as much processing power).
> >
> > However, you might have thought long and carefully about installing your
> > own version at offenerhaushalt.at and decided it would be best for you.
> > If that's the case, the following is really interesting to me:
> >
> > On Thu 28.feb 2013 12:56, Krabina Bernhard wrote:
> >> Furthermore we want to fund some development on the software. Parts of
> it will be usable on the internatonal site as well (e. g.
> Visualisation/Tables per capita). Other parts will make no sense in an
> international platform: e. g. we calculate indicators based on the
> municipal budgets. And budgeting in Austria is quite different from other
> countries (see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-entry_bookkeeping_system )
> >
> > In my opinion we should collaborate closely when you start your
> > development, especially on the bits that are usable on the international
> > site. I'm also not certain that the parts you think make no sense for
> > the international platform are that irrelevant. I think it would come
> > down to how things are implemented.
> >
> > I would recommend we try as hard as we can to incorporate things into
> > the (international) openspending platform. This is a rather big piece of
> > software and creating new development branches (forking the code)
> > usually create more problems than they solve (for example, applying
> > security fixes to one might be difficult for the other). With open
> > source software forking is usually one of the last things developers
> > want to do (because of the problems it brings).
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> > /Tryggvi
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