Hi all, Here's a few links from my talk last night about the OpenAustralia Foundation[0] site PlanningAlerts[1].
As I mentioned, our application code[2] and scraper code[3] are free software and available for your forking pleasure if you'd like to get involved[4]. A really great way to get involved, even if you have little programming experience, is to look at building a scraper for an area we're missing[5] using ScraperWiki[6]. There are excellent tutorials[7] that cover writing scrapers in Python, Ruby and PHP and you can check out scrapers already written for PlanningAlerts to see what others have done[8]. You don't need to download or set up anything to get started. If you're keen to do this, ping me an email and I can send you links to even more information and help. Thanks to everyone for the opportunity to give this talk. Cheers, Henare [0] http://www.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/ [1] http://www.planningalerts.org.au/ [2] https://github.com/openaustralia/planningalerts-app [3] https://github.com/openaustralia/planningalerts-parsers [4] http://www.planningalerts.org.au/getinvolved [5] http://www.planningalerts.org.au/about#authorities [6] http://scraperwiki.com/ [7] http://scraperwiki.com/docs/ [8] http://scraperwiki.com/tags/planningalerts -- Henare Degan e » henare.de...@gmail.com t » @henaredegan w » www.henaredegan.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
