Hi Steve This is a great idea what you guys presented to the News Challenge. But didnt My Society receive a 3 million dollars grabt from Omidyar to work on Poplus and do this type of projects? Or probably this is different. Can you explain a bit more?
Cheers Miguel Paz > El mar 20, 2015, a las 8:00 AM, [email protected] escribió: > > Send okfn-discuss mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of okfn-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. What "elections" News Challenge proposals excite you? > (Steven Clift) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:24:50 -0500 > From: Steven Clift <[email protected]> > To: brigade <[email protected]>, liberationtech > <[email protected]>, [email protected], > Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list > <[email protected]>, Discuss the Knight-Mozilla News > Technology Partnership <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > Subject: [okfn-discuss] What "elections" News Challenge proposals > excite you? > Message-ID: > <CAO9TZ0XFfk=iYHK6ueJ834w7LCOsXxjRBU6Zv66LY1H_T=d...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Please share some links to your proposal or to those you like most. > > Here is one ... > > Thanks to power of Google Docs and Skype chatter, a collaborative crew from > six countries worked on this (more below from Martin): > > Who Are My Candidates? > > http://bit.ly/6countriesnewschallenge > > If you like the idea of leveraging the UK's http://YourNextMP.com code in > your city, state or nation to generate fundamental open data on > candidates, join the Poplus.org online group: http://bit.ly/poplusgroup > > Also, if you really want to tune in or help now, join the UK Democracy > Club's online group: > https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/democracy-club > > Start coding: > https://github.com/mysociety/yournextmp-popit > > Or start helping with the crowd-sourcing on UK candidates: > https://yournextmp.com/tasks/ > > More from Martin in Argentina below ... > > Steven Clift > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Mart?n Szyszlican" <[email protected]> > Date: Mar 19, 2015 1:33 PM > Subject: [Poplus] NewsChallenge: Who Are My Candidates? Fundamental > election data, and fundamentally useful voter tools, in six countries. > To: "poplus" <[email protected]> > Cc: > > Today is the last day of the Knight NewsChallenge and after a great work by > members of the poplus federation we have published our entry, you can read > it fully (and applaud it if you like) here: > https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/who-are-my-candidates-fundamental-election-data-and-fundamentally-useful-voter-tools-in-six-countries > > I have been pushing for this for the past few months and we finally managed > to have a great proposal, I really hope the challenge's judges will think > the same. > > The stated goal is to provide election information in six countries, and > the poplus-related goal is to make yournextmp a truly global tool, with a > popit backend and a host of popolo-based tools implemented or improved in > each country. > I mean Write-it, Cargografias, Twittelection and even add new tools by > making VotaInteligente (a tool from Ciudadano Inteligente in Chile) be able > to consume from PopIt. > > April 13th is the day we find out weather we made it to the next round, > they will pick 50 projects out fo the more than 600 proposals and those > will have to provide a more specific budget and timeline. > > Thanks to all. > > -- > *Mart?n Szyszlican* > Desarrollo web usable y accesible > martinszyszlican.com > > > > -- > Poplus.org - Get involved: http://poplus.org/get-involved > IRC: #poplus https://webchat.freenode.net > Docs: http://bit.ly/poplusdrive > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Poplus - Collaborative Civic Coding" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/poplus. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/poplus/CAKTxXVXCuKn0L2s%2BXOp4h%2BWziCGvRs50sU_7yaHvpi2tkWiVrw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/poplus/CAKTxXVXCuKn0L2s%2BXOp4h%2BWziCGvRs50sU_7yaHvpi2tkWiVrw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/attachments/20150319/2fe66b41/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > > > ------------------------------ > > End of okfn-discuss Digest, Vol 114, Issue 10 > ********************************************* _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
