[OpenSpending] Launching OS for Oakland, Calif.

Fri Mar 8 16:45:23 UTC 2013

Hi Adam,

Sounds great that you'll visualising budgets for Oakland. I'd be
really interested to hear how the project develops.

Do you know if the City of Oakland is planning to release more
detailed transactional spending data as well? Cities like NYC [1]
seems to doing regular releases of transactional spending data. It
would be interesting to hear if Oakland is doing similar releases.

Best,
Anders

[1] The NYC comptroller: http://www.checkbooknyc.com/data-feeds

On 8 March 2013 05:33, Adam Stiles <adam.d.stiles at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I sent the message below to the openspending-dev list, but no replies, so
> I'm trying here.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam
>
>
> As I mentioned on the main OpenSpending list, I'm part of a group in
> Oakland, CA, USA, developing a project called Open Budget to visualize our
> city budget.
>
> I have considered forking the Cameroon or Slovakia sites, though they have
> many more features than we currently have the data to take advantage of, so
> I'm thinking it may make more sense to start with just the features we need.
>
> For our first iteration, we basically want the features visible on this
> page: visualization (with unique URLs on each click), commenting, buttons to
> switch years, budget/actual, rev/expenditure, etc. Would also want to be
> able to toggle between TreeMap and BubbleTree visuals. On other pages we'd
> have other resources, but these features would be our beta app. In terms of
> design/CSS, we'd like to start with something like Cameroon and modify from
> there.
>
> Can someone please point me to the resources needed to set this up? Not
> clear to me if it's more efficient to fork Cameroon and adapt it, or start
> from scratch. (I'm a coding novice that's relying on others for help, hence
> the naive questions.)
>
> Thanks for any guidance!
>
> Adam
>
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