-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >>It'll require a lot more than just installing it, as the UK >>legislation details are hard coded into the templates and the logic >>throughout the application.
Indeed this is true, which I've found out after trying to do a little hacking on it. >>>To do a good job of generalising it is several weeks work. After that, >>>it would be much easier to do new jurisdictions - just the first one >>>is more work. This would be awesome. I can imagine there being a WhatDoTheyKnow clone for US FOIA requests and for each individual state (which has their own open records laws). >>Can you tell us more about your project? What do you want to use the >>WhatDoTheyKnow code to do? What is your budget? What programming >>skills do you or people on your team have? I'm just a student who is playing around with the codebase. I've made hundreds of public records requests to agencies in Washington state. Combined with a few friends of mine, we've probably tallied up thousands. Unfortunately there's no standard place to put the results, keep track of agency policies, etc. A clone of WhatDoTheyKnow could be extremely useful. I'd be willing to update the content to make it US specific or even Washington State Specific. If somebody could do the main generalizing (by generating templates which I could edit and upload through git), I'd be happy to do that. I could commit to hosting the Washington-specific one but a US-wide one will require a little more resources. There's no team, we have a budget of $0, a dedicated server running debian with unmetered 10mbps, and no programming skills. I used to know java but haven't used it in years and don't desire to pick it up again. I know a fair bit about computer security though as well as sysadmin stuff. After playing around with it for a while, I think I'll go for MediaWiki for this particular project which is due in its entirety in a few weeks. Ringo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuHJ6wACgkQETpif9i/srpOxgCdEWTk+aRgtPFLlTsP2Jq57eRY ZHoAn2NNn8upVzqMd0n5XRLBViGzUjnY =PpSK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
