Congratulations to Reinier and his team. This is cool technology and a great way to make elections in Ug more transparent.
Well done!! Best regards, Prof dr Victor van Reijswoud On 17 feb. 2011, at 12:06, Reinier Battenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > yesterday evening we moved to the last iteration of www.ugandawatch2011.org > We really appreciated the feedback we got on several mailinglists and tried > to incorporate some changes that should please people based on this feedback: > - Our biggest change is that we now show on the map, not just where we get > reports from, but also what type of reports are coming from different > locations. So, on the homepage you can see that in the east, the amount of > violence reports is relatively high, and in the North, there are more worries > about Money & Process issues. You can click the images to see a breakdown of > each region. > - We introduced colors for this, other than purple. > - We slashed the size of the initial load of the page by almost 1MB to little > over 800k. This includes all graphics, javascript and the map tiles. Please > note, that the page itself is only about 22k, so subsequent pages you visit > will only have to download this 22k + additional maptiles if the page > contains a map. > - We introduced the first Ugandan targetted Content Delivery Network or CDN! > We are very very proud that we now serve most static content from either the > UK *or* from Uganda, depending on where the nameserver is that you are using. > This process is completely transparent to the user, and should make > acccessing the site much quicker. This is the first site Mountbatten is > running using the CDN, but more will follow. > Hope you enjoy the new site, and that we all have a safe and fair elections > tomorrow. > You can follow Ugandawatch on facebook > http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/UgandaWatch/137552086298867 > And on twitter @UgWatch > http://twitter.com/#!/ugwatch > If members are interested, we would not mind presenting about some of the > trickery that went behind this on a future LUG event. > -- > rgds, > Reinier Battenberg > Director > Mountbatten Ltd. > +256 758 801 749 > www.mountbatten.net > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any > way. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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