Hopefully we'll find a way of funding that generalisation, one way or another this year...
More help or leads for doing that welcome from anyone! On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 08:45:16PM -0500, Ringo wrote: > -----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 > -- Help beat party propaganda at the next election - www.democracyclub.org.uk _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
