[CivicAccess-discuss] Show your support for open gov. data at ibelieveinopen.ca

[Jennifer Bell]

Thanks to the people that signed up so far, and thanks for your excellent feedback.  It's been pretty rushed getting the site up, so not everything got on the site that's on the roadmap.  

(We're following a 'release early, release often' principle.)

See inserted.
 
Jennifer
 
 --- On Sat, 9/20/08, Daniel Haran
 <chebuctonian at gmail.com> wrote:
 
 > From: Daniel Haran <chebuctonian at gmail.com>
 > Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] Show your support
 for open gov. data at ibelieveinopen.ca
 > To: jenniferlianne at yahoo.ca, "civicaccess
 discuss" <civicaccess-discuss at civicaccess.ca>
 > Received: Saturday, September 20, 2008, 10:20 PM
 > Hi Jennifer,
 > 
 > I signed up. A few thoughts:
 > 
 > -The home page looks a bit bare. Even with candidate
 and
 > party
 > pledges, most of that page may best be used to convert
 > visitors.
 
 Working on it.
 
 > -The flow is a bit confusing (I confirmed my email
 address
 > before the
 > riding, which doesn't help). It would be neat to
 know
 > what happens now
 > - does my MP get contacted? Do I hear back?
 
 Good point.  Will fix.
 
 > -A call to action could be effective at the last
 stage,
 > e.g. asking
 > people to tell their friends.
 
 Good point.  Will add.
 
 > -Would you use infringing postal code => riding
 data?
 
 I'm not sure what this is.  Perhaps I should find
 out....
 
 > If the project is accessible I can likely make changes
 - is
 > this on
 > git / github?
 
The people I got the original code base from were very trusting and sent me an early version of their site that was filled with private data, passwords, etc.  -- with the understanding that I wouldn't be sharing it widely.  

I'd like to show them the modified package first, before posting it publicly, so that they can feel confident that there's none of their footprint left.  This is only a short term inconvenience -- really, VisibleGovernment.ca is *about* open source software.

Thanks for the offer of helping with the code, Daniel! I see we're in the same riding... very convenient.  I'll send you a message offline so that we can chat.

Jennifer

--- On Sat, 9/20/08, Daniel Haran <chebuctonian at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Daniel Haran <chebuctonian at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] Show your support for open gov. data at ibelieveinopen.ca
> To: jenniferlianne at yahoo.ca, "civicaccess discuss" <civicaccess-discuss at civicaccess.ca>
> Received: Saturday, September 20, 2008, 10:20 PM
> Hi Jennifer,
> 
> I signed up. A few thoughts:
> 
> -The home page looks a bit bare. Even with candidate and
> party
> pledges, most of that page may best be used to convert
> visitors.
> -The flow is a bit confusing (I confirmed my email address
> before the
> riding, which doesn't help). It would be neat to know
> what happens now
> - does my MP get contacted? Do I hear back?
> -A call to action could be effective at the last stage,
> e.g. asking
> people to tell their friends.
> -Would you use infringing postal code => riding data?
> 
> If the project is accessible I can likely make changes - is
> this on
> git / github?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> d.
> 
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Jennifer Bell
> <jenniferlianne at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> > Hello CivicAccess,
> >
> > The website ibelieveinopen.ca that I mentioned earlier
> this week is now live.  The site collects sigunups from
> citizens and pledges from political candidates on five
> issues related to government transparency.  We're still
> working on tweaking the look/feel and adding more pages to
> display the results, but the basic signup mechanism is
> working and ready for use.
> >
> > Pledges 4 and 5 are about open access to government
> data, so should be specifically of interest to this group. 
> I'll be sending out emails to MP candidates early next
> week -- it would be great to have a 'seed group' of
> citizen signups before then.
> >
> > If this is an issue you feel strongly about, please
> show your support.
> >
> > http://ibelieveinopen.ca
> >
> > Jennifer Bell
> > visiblegovernment.ca
> >
> >
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