Thanks to everyone that attended yesterday's hackfest, what a fantastic day! It was really great to meet you all, learn some things, hopefully help others, and see the work that came out of the day.
The day kicked off just after midday with Matthew giving us a run down of how we can get involved and contribute to OpenAustralia (see below for a reminder). After that, the 40-strong participants worked in groups on projects they were interested, fix bugs or just get their heads around how the OA code works.
My personal experience was helping people get the code up-and-running in their development environment so they can see how it works and hopefully start contributing. There were quite a few questions during the day so if you're stuck on anything or have any questions, don't forget to send a mail to this list. There's a bunch of people ready to help you, and we're bound to learn something along the way too!
*Projects*
I didn't get a chance to speak to all the people working on projects<http://wiki.github.com/mlandauer/openaustralia/openaustralia-hackfest...>during the day and so I'm really hoping people in those groups can reply to this mail with a few sentences about what you did during the day, any new opportunities you found or any problems you ran into:
Even if you weren't in one of these groups, please don't hesitate to write up your experiences, send them to this list, blog or tweet about them (and send us a link!).
*Statistics*
During the day we had:
- Five total commits, two to the web application and three to the parser - Nine issues in total updated in the bug tracker, with four issues resolved - A number of new developers added to the bug tracker so there's now over 10 people that can update tickets
There's a lot more effort that's not in these numbers that hopefully will be coming out in the days ahead as people start releasing their results from the day.
Thanks again to the core organisers, Matthew, Kat and Sarah for initiating such an excellent event, thanks to Google, Tim and James for an excellent venue and facilities but thanks most of all to everyone that came and made it the great day it was.
I've got the device detection working at the apache conf level and have
cut down index.php to be more relevant for mobile devices (e.g. simpler
css/layout and only 10 items in "recent debates" summaries, etc.).
I'm working on the search results pages and a few other simple pages and
should be able to check that in or supply a diff in a couple of days.
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 15:16 +1000, Henare Degan wrote:
> Hi all,
> Thanks to everyone that attended yesterday's hackfest, what a
> fantastic day! It was really great to meet you all, learn some things,
> hopefully help others, and see the work that came out of the day.
> The day kicked off just after midday with Matthew giving us a run down
> of how we can get involved and contribute to OpenAustralia (see below
> for a reminder). After that, the 40-strong participants worked in
> groups on projects they were interested, fix bugs or just get their
> heads around how the OA code works.
> My personal experience was helping people get the code up-and-running
> in their development environment so they can see how it works and
> hopefully start contributing. There were quite a few questions during
> the day so if you're stuck on anything or have any questions, don't
> forget to send a mail to this list. There's a bunch of people ready to
> help you, and we're bound to learn something along the way too!
> Projects
> I didn't get a chance to speak to all the people working on projects
> during the day and so I'm really hoping people in those groups can
> reply to this mail with a few sentences about what you did during the
> day, any new opportunities you found or any problems you ran into:
> * OA-277 Set up of open source video infrastructure for
> publishing Ogg Theora/Vorbis video in HTML5 video tag (Silvia
> Pfeiffer)
> * OA-178 Wordpress plugin – Sherif worked on this. You can track
> progress here.
> * OA-280 iPhone version of FixMyStreet clone – Jake worked on
> this with Nat and Chris
> * OA-195 Register of Members’ Interests Data Entry Tool (RMIDET)
> – Keiran worked on this with Tim.
> * OA-250 Capitol Words equivalent… only with phrase support,
> weighted with “unlikely occurrence of words together”
> statistic. Mary Gardiner
> * MP Contact Details scrapers for obtaining MP contact details
> from other States
> Even if you weren't in one of these groups, please don't hesitate to
> write up your experiences, send them to this list, blog or tweet about
> them (and send us a link!).
> Statistics
> During the day we had:
> * Five total commits, two to the web application and three to
> the parser
> * Nine issues in total updated in the bug tracker, with four
> issues resolved
> * A number of new developers added to the bug tracker so there's
> now over 10 people that can update tickets
> There's a lot more effort that's not in these numbers that hopefully
> will be coming out in the days ahead as people start releasing their
> results from the day.
> Pretty impressive for a first effort I think, as Matthew says, "Give
> yourself a big pat on the back!" :)
> Get Involved
> Matthew gave a great introduction where he reminded us of how we can
> all get involved:
> * Sign-up to the Dev Mailing List -
> http://groups.google.com.au/group/openaustralia-dev/ > * If you're getting this email, you already are signed
> up, so please forward this to others that were at the
> hackfest that might not have got around to it
> * Download the software that runs OpenAustralia -
> http://software.openaustralia.org/ > * Check the trouble tickets in our bug tracker to find things to
> fix or new things to build - http://tickets.openaustralia.org/ > * Edit our development wiki at github -
> http://wiki.github.com/mlandauer/openaustralia > * Follow us on Twitter - http://twitter.com/OpenAustralia > Thanks again to the core organisers, Matthew, Kat and Sarah for
> initiating such an excellent event, thanks to Google, Tim and James
> for an excellent venue and facilities but thanks most of all to
> everyone that came and made it the great day it was.
> Cheers,
> Henare
> PS. Don't forget to tag your photos and tweets about the day oah09 so
> we can find them
> PPS. We'll be posting this summary to our development blog once the
> projects send in their updates, so please get them in as soon as you
> can
> PPPS. Apologies for the HTML mail but it seems to be OK on this
> mailing list. Feel free to flame me if not :)
Thanks very much for the quick reply and wow, the progress on your mobile
version sounds great! I can't wait to see the commits coming out soon. I
think this might open up other opportunities in the mobile area for us to
explore. Very cool.
I'll make sure this detail gets added to our blog post about the day.
> I've got the device detection working at the apache conf level and have
> cut down index.php to be more relevant for mobile devices (e.g. simpler
> css/layout and only 10 items in "recent debates" summaries, etc.).
> I'm working on the search results pages and a few other simple pages and
> should be able to check that in or supply a diff in a couple of days.
> MOB is an Innovation Lab for Mobile & Online Business
> MOB : Innovations that get you MO'Business
> http://MOBusiness.com.au
> On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 15:16 +1000, Henare Degan wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Thanks to everyone that attended yesterday's hackfest, what a
> > fantastic day! It was really great to meet you all, learn some things,
> > hopefully help others, and see the work that came out of the day.
> > The day kicked off just after midday with Matthew giving us a run down
> > of how we can get involved and contribute to OpenAustralia (see below
> > for a reminder). After that, the 40-strong participants worked in
> > groups on projects they were interested, fix bugs or just get their
> > heads around how the OA code works.
> > My personal experience was helping people get the code up-and-running
> > in their development environment so they can see how it works and
> > hopefully start contributing. There were quite a few questions during
> > the day so if you're stuck on anything or have any questions, don't
> > forget to send a mail to this list. There's a bunch of people ready to
> > help you, and we're bound to learn something along the way too!
> > Projects
> > I didn't get a chance to speak to all the people working on projects
> > during the day and so I'm really hoping people in those groups can
> > reply to this mail with a few sentences about what you did during the
> > day, any new opportunities you found or any problems you ran into:
> > * OA-277 Set up of open source video infrastructure for
> > publishing Ogg Theora/Vorbis video in HTML5 video tag (Silvia
> > Pfeiffer)
> > * OA-178 Wordpress plugin – Sherif worked on this. You can track
> > progress here.
> > * OA-280 iPhone version of FixMyStreet clone – Jake worked on
> > this with Nat and Chris
> > * OA-195 Register of Members’ Interests Data Entry Tool (RMIDET)
> > – Keiran worked on this with Tim.
> > * OA-250 Capitol Words equivalent… only with phrase support,
> > weighted with “unlikely occurrence of words together”
> > statistic. Mary Gardiner
> > * MP Contact Details scrapers for obtaining MP contact details
> > from other States
> > Even if you weren't in one of these groups, please don't hesitate to
> > write up your experiences, send them to this list, blog or tweet about
> > them (and send us a link!).
> > Statistics
> > During the day we had:
> > * Five total commits, two to the web application and three to
> > the parser
> > * Nine issues in total updated in the bug tracker, with four
> > issues resolved
> > * A number of new developers added to the bug tracker so there's
> > now over 10 people that can update tickets
> > There's a lot more effort that's not in these numbers that hopefully
> > will be coming out in the days ahead as people start releasing their
> > results from the day.
> > Pretty impressive for a first effort I think, as Matthew says, "Give
> > yourself a big pat on the back!" :)
> > Get Involved
> > Matthew gave a great introduction where he reminded us of how we can
> > all get involved:
> > * Sign-up to the Dev Mailing List -
> > http://groups.google.com.au/group/openaustralia-dev/ > > * If you're getting this email, you already are signed
> > up, so please forward this to others that were at the
> > hackfest that might not have got around to it
> > * Download the software that runs OpenAustralia -
> > http://software.openaustralia.org/ > > * Check the trouble tickets in our bug tracker to find things to
> > fix or new things to build - http://tickets.openaustralia.org/ > > * Edit our development wiki at github -
> > http://wiki.github.com/mlandauer/openaustralia > > * Follow us on Twitter - http://twitter.com/OpenAustralia > > Thanks again to the core organisers, Matthew, Kat and Sarah for
> > initiating such an excellent event, thanks to Google, Tim and James
> > for an excellent venue and facilities but thanks most of all to
> > everyone that came and made it the great day it was.
> > Cheers,
> > Henare
> > PS. Don't forget to tag your photos and tweets about the day oah09 so
> > we can find them
> > PPS. We'll be posting this summary to our development blog once the
> > projects send in their updates, so please get them in as soon as you
> > can
> > PPPS. Apologies for the HTML mail but it seems to be OK on this
> > mailing list. Feel free to flame me if not :)
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Henare Degan<henare.de...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all,
> Thanks to everyone that attended yesterday's hackfest, what a fantastic day! > It was really great to meet you all, learn some things, hopefully help > others, and see the work that came out of the day.
> The day kicked off just after midday with Matthew giving us a run down of > how we can get involved and contribute to OpenAustralia (see below for a > reminder). After that, the 40-strong participants worked in groups on > projects they were interested, fix bugs or just get their heads around how > the OA code works.
> My personal experience was helping people get the code up-and-running in > their development environment so they can see how it works and hopefully > start contributing. There were quite a few questions during the day so if > you're stuck on anything or have any questions, don't forget to send a mail > to this list. There's a bunch of people ready to help you, and we're bound > to learn something along the way too!
> Projects
> I didn't get a chance to speak to all the people working on projects during > the day and so I'm really hoping people in those groups can reply to this > mail with a few sentences about what you did during the day, any new > opportunities you found or any problems you ran into:
> OA-277 Set up of open source video infrastructure for publishing Ogg > Theora/Vorbis video in HTML5 video tag (Silvia Pfeiffer)
<..>
> Even if you weren't in one of these groups, please don't hesitate to write > up your experiences, send them to this list, blog or tweet about them (and > send us a link!).
I've not got very far with this yet. I was planning on putting a Ogg Theora/Vorbis video into a page, probably Kate Lundy's page, and providing all the necessary javascript for it. But in the end I just registered and installed the web software, got it working on my mac, and had nearly 2 hours of chats with people around me. I also posted some articles to a new website that we are developing that is meant to help people get started with Ogg (see http://new.annodex.net/), but it's still early days for that.
If you want to check out where I want to take us, go to http://www.metavid.org/. It has video search down to the detailed level by using transcripts such as Hansard as an index into the videos. Once somebody else here has sorted out how to get hold of the parliamentary recordings of state and federal, we can get that working in a similar way. One step at a time!
<silviapfeiff...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've not got very far with this yet. I was planning on putting a Ogg > Theora/Vorbis video into a page, probably Kate Lundy's page, and > providing all the necessary javascript for it. But in the end I just > registered and installed the web software, got it working on my mac, > and had nearly 2 hours of chats with people around me. I also posted > some articles to a new website that we are developing that is meant to > help people get started with Ogg (see http://new.annodex.net/), but > it's still early days for that.
Hi Silvia,
Thanks very much for the update, great to hear you got the web app up and running. I think a lot of the chats were just as useful for inspiring us, which is why I was keen to hear other peoples experiences :)
> If you want to check out where I want to take us, go to > http://www.metavid.org/. It has video search down to the detailed > level by using transcripts such as Hansard as an index into the > videos. Once somebody else here has sorted out how to get hold of the > parliamentary recordings of state and federal, we can get that working > in a similar way. One step at a time!
One step at a time indeed! I've added OA-285 to our issue tracker to track us getting access to the videos. I remember we had a bit of a chat about this at linux.conf.au 2009 and someone mentioned speaking to the ABC about getting access to their video - maybe someone closer to the issue can add details to that ticket.
> <silviapfeiff...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've not got very far with this yet. I was planning on putting a Ogg
> > Theora/Vorbis video into a page, probably Kate Lundy's page, and
> > providing all the necessary javascript for it. But in the end I just
> > registered and installed the web software, got it working on my mac,
> > and had nearly 2 hours of chats with people around me. I also posted
> > some articles to a new website that we are developing that is meant to
> > help people get started with Ogg (seehttp://new.annodex.net/), but
> > it's still early days for that.
> Hi Silvia,
> Thanks very much for the update, great to hear you got the web app up
> and running. I think a lot of the chats were just as useful for
> inspiring us, which is why I was keen to hear other peoples
> experiences :)
> > If you want to check out where I want to take us, go to
> >http://www.metavid.org/. It has video search down to the detailed
> > level by using transcripts such as Hansard as an index into the
> > videos. Once somebody else here has sorted out how to get hold of the
> > parliamentary recordings of state and federal, we can get that working
> > in a similar way. One step at a time!
> One step at a time indeed! I've added OA-285 to our issue tracker to
> track us getting access to the videos. I remember we had a bit of a
> chat about this at linux.conf.au 2009 and someone mentioned speaking
> to the ABC about getting access to their video - maybe someone closer
> to the issue can add details to that ticket.
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Henare Degan<henare.de...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 17:44, Silvia Pfeiffer
> <silviapfeiff...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've not got very far with this yet. I was planning on putting a Ogg
>> Theora/Vorbis video into a page, probably Kate Lundy's page, and
>> providing all the necessary javascript for it. But in the end I just
>> registered and installed the web software, got it working on my mac,
>> and had nearly 2 hours of chats with people around me. I also posted
>> some articles to a new website that we are developing that is meant to
>> help people get started with Ogg (see http://new.annodex.net/), but
>> it's still early days for that.
> Hi Silvia,
> Thanks very much for the update, great to hear you got the web app up
> and running. I think a lot of the chats were just as useful for
> inspiring us, which is why I was keen to hear other peoples
> experiences :)
>> If you want to check out where I want to take us, go to
>> http://www.metavid.org/. It has video search down to the detailed
>> level by using transcripts such as Hansard as an index into the
>> videos. Once somebody else here has sorted out how to get hold of the
>> parliamentary recordings of state and federal, we can get that working
>> in a similar way. One step at a time!
> One step at a time indeed! I've added OA-285 to our issue tracker to
> track us getting access to the videos. I remember we had a bit of a
> chat about this at linux.conf.au 2009 and someone mentioned speaking
> to the ABC about getting access to their video - maybe someone closer
> to the issue can add details to that ticket.
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 21:28, Sherif<sherifgmans...@gmail.com> wrote: > Awesome stuff. Thanks for organising the day guys.
> I'm hoping to get the wordpress up ready for downloading and use in a > week or so... just trying to get past my exams :-)
> Ill keep the Jira case updated
Hey Sherif,
It was great to meet you yesterday and great to see your cool work on the Wordpress plugin, I'm really looking forward to seeing the code (I'll keep my eye on the ticket).
Once you get the code up we can use it as an example for the first new development to use the API! (Like the Examples section on the TWFY API page http://www.theyworkforyou.com/api/)
Hi All
I've been watching the progress of openaustralia.org with interest for a
while and was disappointed I couldn't make the hackfest on the weekend (was
freezing my butt off in a tent up the coast).
Anyway I'm keen get involved.
I've downloaded the app this morning and have it all running on my laptop so
I'm pretty much good to go. OA-173 looks like an obvious candidate, back am
open to other suggestions.
Can someone set me up in JIRA?
Cheers
Mark
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Henare Degan <henare.de...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Thanks to everyone that attended yesterday's hackfest, what a fantastic
> day! It was really great to meet you all, learn some things, hopefully help
> others, and see the work that came out of the day.
> The day kicked off just after midday with Matthew giving us a run down of
> how we can get involved and contribute to OpenAustralia (see below for a
> reminder). After that, the 40-strong participants worked in groups on
> projects they were interested, fix bugs or just get their heads around how
> the OA code works.
> My personal experience was helping people get the code up-and-running in
> their development environment so they can see how it works and hopefully
> start contributing. There were quite a few questions during the day so if
> you're stuck on anything or have any questions, don't forget to send a mail
> to this list. There's a bunch of people ready to help you, and we're bound
> to learn something along the way too!
> *Projects*
> I didn't get a chance to speak to all the people working on projects<http://wiki.github.com/mlandauer/openaustralia/openaustralia-hackfest...>during the day and so I'm really hoping people in those groups can reply to
> this mail with a few sentences about what you did during the day, any new
> opportunities you found or any problems you ran into:
> Even if you weren't in one of these groups, please don't hesitate to write
> up your experiences, send them to this list, blog or tweet about them (and
> send us a link!).
> *Statistics*
> During the day we had:
> - Five total commits, two to the web application and three to the
> parser
> - Nine issues in total updated in the bug tracker, with four issues
> resolved
> - A number of new developers added to the bug tracker so there's now
> over 10 people that can update tickets
> There's a lot more effort that's not in these numbers that hopefully will
> be coming out in the days ahead as people start releasing their results from
> the day.
> Thanks again to the core organisers, Matthew, Kat and Sarah for initiating
> such an excellent event, thanks to Google, Tim and James for an excellent
> venue and facilities but thanks most of all to everyone that came and made
> it the great day it was.
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Mark Stanton<mark.stan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
> I've been watching the progress of openaustralia.org with interest for a
> while and was disappointed I couldn't make the hackfest on the weekend (was
> freezing my butt off in a tent up the coast).
> Anyway I'm keen get involved.
> I've downloaded the app this morning and have it all running on my laptop so
> I'm pretty much good to go. OA-173 looks like an obvious candidate, back am
> open to other suggestions.
> Can someone set me up in JIRA?
> Cheers
> Mark
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Henare Degan <henare.de...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Thanks to everyone that attended yesterday's hackfest, what a fantastic
>> day! It was really great to meet you all, learn some things, hopefully help
>> others, and see the work that came out of the day.
>> The day kicked off just after midday with Matthew giving us a run down of
>> how we can get involved and contribute to OpenAustralia (see below for a
>> reminder). After that, the 40-strong participants worked in groups on
>> projects they were interested, fix bugs or just get their heads around how
>> the OA code works.
>> My personal experience was helping people get the code up-and-running in
>> their development environment so they can see how it works and hopefully
>> start contributing. There were quite a few questions during the day so if
>> you're stuck on anything or have any questions, don't forget to send a mail
>> to this list. There's a bunch of people ready to help you, and we're bound
>> to learn something along the way too!
>> Projects
>> I didn't get a chance to speak to all the people working on projects
>> during the day and so I'm really hoping people in those groups can reply to
>> this mail with a few sentences about what you did during the day, any new
>> opportunities you found or any problems you ran into:
>> OA-277 Set up of open source video infrastructure for publishing Ogg
>> Theora/Vorbis video in HTML5 video tag (Silvia Pfeiffer)
>> OA-178 Wordpress plugin – Sherif worked on this. You can track progress
>> here.
>> OA-280 iPhone version of FixMyStreet clone – Jake worked on this with Nat
>> and Chris
>> OA-195 Register of Members’ Interests Data Entry Tool (RMIDET) – Keiran
>> worked on this with Tim.
>> OA-250 Capitol Words equivalent… only with phrase support, weighted with
>> “unlikely occurrence of words together” statistic. Mary Gardiner
>> MP Contact Details scrapers for obtaining MP contact details from other
>> States
>> Even if you weren't in one of these groups, please don't hesitate to write
>> up your experiences, send them to this list, blog or tweet about them (and
>> send us a link!).
>> Statistics
>> During the day we had:
>> Five total commits, two to the web application and three to the parser
>> Nine issues in total updated in the bug tracker, with four issues resolved
>> A number of new developers added to the bug tracker so there's now over 10
>> people that can update tickets
>> There's a lot more effort that's not in these numbers that hopefully will
>> be coming out in the days ahead as people start releasing their results from
>> the day.
>> Pretty impressive for a first effort I think, as Matthew says, "Give
>> yourself a big pat on the back!" :)
>> Get Involved
>> Matthew gave a great introduction where he reminded us of how we can all
>> get involved:
>> If you're getting this email, you already are signed up, so please forward
>> this to others that were at the hackfest that might not have got around to
>> it
>> Thanks again to the core organisers, Matthew, Kat and Sarah for initiating
>> such an excellent event, thanks to Google, Tim and James for an excellent
>> venue and facilities but thanks most of all to everyone that came and made
>> it the great day it was.
>> Cheers,
>> Henare
>> PS. Don't forget to tag your photos and tweets about the day oah09 so we
>> can find them
>> PPS. We'll be posting this summary to our development blog once the
>> projects send in their updates, so please get them in as soon as you can
>> PPPS. Apologies for the HTML mail but it seems to be OK on this mailing
>> list. Feel free to flame me if not :)
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 14:38, Mark Stanton<mark.stan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can someone set me up in JIRA?
Hi Mark,
Great to hear! Sign up on http://tickets.openaustralia.org/secure/Signup!default.jspa then email your username to the list and someone will make you a developer so you can assign the ticket to yourself and mark it as In Progress when you start working on it.
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 14:38, Mark Stanton<mark.stan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Can someone set me up in JIRA?
> Hi Mark,
> Great to hear! Sign up on
> http://tickets.openaustralia.org/secure/Signup!default.jspa then email
> your username to the list and someone will make you a developer so you
> can assign the ticket to yourself and mark it as In Progress when you
> start working on it.
While you're setting Jira permissions - can you please make me a dev
too so I can add some more detail about the 'fixmystreet' clone?
Actually, could you add a 'fix my street' module too (so I can group
related issues)?
Thanks,
Jake
On 15/06/2009, at 2:56 PM, Matthew Landauer wrote:
> That's great! I've set you up with developer permissions on JIRA so
> you can now assign yourself tickets.
> As far as I know nobody else is working on OA-173 so it's totally
> yours. Please just go for it.
> All the best,
> Matthew
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Mark
> Stanton<mark.stan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All
>> I've been watching the progress of openaustralia.org with interest
>> for a
>> while and was disappointed I couldn't make the hackfest on the
>> weekend (was
>> freezing my butt off in a tent up the coast).
>> Anyway I'm keen get involved.
>> I've downloaded the app this morning and have it all running on my
>> laptop so
>> I'm pretty much good to go. OA-173 looks like an obvious candidate,
>> back am
>> open to other suggestions.
>> Can someone set me up in JIRA?
>> Cheers
>> Mark
>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Henare Degan
>> <henare.de...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> Thanks to everyone that attended yesterday's hackfest, what a
>>> fantastic
>>> day! It was really great to meet you all, learn some things,
>>> hopefully help
>>> others, and see the work that came out of the day.
>>> The day kicked off just after midday with Matthew giving us a run
>>> down of
>>> how we can get involved and contribute to OpenAustralia (see below
>>> for a
>>> reminder). After that, the 40-strong participants worked in groups
>>> on
>>> projects they were interested, fix bugs or just get their heads
>>> around how
>>> the OA code works.
>>> My personal experience was helping people get the code up-and- >>> running in
>>> their development environment so they can see how it works and
>>> hopefully
>>> start contributing. There were quite a few questions during the
>>> day so if
>>> you're stuck on anything or have any questions, don't forget to
>>> send a mail
>>> to this list. There's a bunch of people ready to help you, and
>>> we're bound
>>> to learn something along the way too!
>>> Projects
>>> I didn't get a chance to speak to all the people working on projects
>>> during the day and so I'm really hoping people in those groups can
>>> reply to
>>> this mail with a few sentences about what you did during the day,
>>> any new
>>> opportunities you found or any problems you ran into:
>>> OA-277 Set up of open source video infrastructure for publishing Ogg
>>> Theora/Vorbis video in HTML5 video tag (Silvia Pfeiffer)
>>> OA-178 Wordpress plugin – Sherif worked on this. You can track
>>> progress
>>> here.
>>> OA-280 iPhone version of FixMyStreet clone – Jake worked on this
>>> with Nat
>>> and Chris
>>> OA-195 Register of Members’ Interests Data Entry Tool (RMIDET) –
>>> Keiran
>>> worked on this with Tim.
>>> OA-250 Capitol Words equivalent… only with phrase support,
>>> weighted with
>>> “unlikely occurrence of words together” statistic. Mary Gardiner
>>> MP Contact Details scrapers for obtaining MP contact details from
>>> other
>>> States
>>> Even if you weren't in one of these groups, please don't hesitate
>>> to write
>>> up your experiences, send them to this list, blog or tweet about
>>> them (and
>>> send us a link!).
>>> Statistics
>>> During the day we had:
>>> Five total commits, two to the web application and three to the
>>> parser
>>> Nine issues in total updated in the bug tracker, with four issues
>>> resolved
>>> A number of new developers added to the bug tracker so there's now
>>> over 10
>>> people that can update tickets
>>> There's a lot more effort that's not in these numbers that
>>> hopefully will
>>> be coming out in the days ahead as people start releasing their
>>> results from
>>> the day.
>>> Pretty impressive for a first effort I think, as Matthew says, "Give
>>> yourself a big pat on the back!" :)
>>> Get Involved
>>> Matthew gave a great introduction where he reminded us of how we
>>> can all
>>> get involved:
>>> If you're getting this email, you already are signed up, so please
>>> forward
>>> this to others that were at the hackfest that might not have got
>>> around to
>>> it
>>> Thanks again to the core organisers, Matthew, Kat and Sarah for
>>> initiating
>>> such an excellent event, thanks to Google, Tim and James for an
>>> excellent
>>> venue and facilities but thanks most of all to everyone that came
>>> and made
>>> it the great day it was.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Henare
>>> PS. Don't forget to tag your photos and tweets about the day oah09
>>> so we
>>> can find them
>>> PPS. We'll be posting this summary to our development blog once the
>>> projects send in their updates, so please get them in as soon as
>>> you can
>>> PPPS. Apologies for the HTML mail but it seems to be OK on this
>>> mailing
>>> list. Feel free to flame me if not :)
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Jake MacMullin<jmacmul...@mac.com> wrote:
> Matthew,
> While you're setting Jira permissions - can you please make me a dev
> too so I can add some more detail about the 'fixmystreet' clone?
> Actually, could you add a 'fix my street' module too (so I can group
> related issues)?
> Thanks,
> Jake
> On 15/06/2009, at 2:56 PM, Matthew Landauer wrote:
>> That's great! I've set you up with developer permissions on JIRA so
>> you can now assign yourself tickets.
>> As far as I know nobody else is working on OA-173 so it's totally
>> yours. Please just go for it.
>> All the best,
>> Matthew
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Mark
>> Stanton<mark.stan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi All
>>> I've been watching the progress of openaustralia.org with interest
>>> for a
>>> while and was disappointed I couldn't make the hackfest on the
>>> weekend (was
>>> freezing my butt off in a tent up the coast).
>>> Anyway I'm keen get involved.
>>> I've downloaded the app this morning and have it all running on my
>>> laptop so
>>> I'm pretty much good to go. OA-173 looks like an obvious candidate,
>>> back am
>>> open to other suggestions.
>>> Can someone set me up in JIRA?
>>> Cheers
>>> Mark
>>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Henare Degan
>>> <henare.de...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> Thanks to everyone that attended yesterday's hackfest, what a
>>>> fantastic
>>>> day! It was really great to meet you all, learn some things,
>>>> hopefully help
>>>> others, and see the work that came out of the day.
>>>> The day kicked off just after midday with Matthew giving us a run
>>>> down of
>>>> how we can get involved and contribute to OpenAustralia (see below
>>>> for a
>>>> reminder). After that, the 40-strong participants worked in groups
>>>> on
>>>> projects they were interested, fix bugs or just get their heads
>>>> around how
>>>> the OA code works.
>>>> My personal experience was helping people get the code up-and-
>>>> running in
>>>> their development environment so they can see how it works and
>>>> hopefully
>>>> start contributing. There were quite a few questions during the
>>>> day so if
>>>> you're stuck on anything or have any questions, don't forget to
>>>> send a mail
>>>> to this list. There's a bunch of people ready to help you, and
>>>> we're bound
>>>> to learn something along the way too!
>>>> Projects
>>>> I didn't get a chance to speak to all the people working on projects
>>>> during the day and so I'm really hoping people in those groups can
>>>> reply to
>>>> this mail with a few sentences about what you did during the day,
>>>> any new
>>>> opportunities you found or any problems you ran into:
>>>> OA-277 Set up of open source video infrastructure for publishing Ogg
>>>> Theora/Vorbis video in HTML5 video tag (Silvia Pfeiffer)
>>>> OA-178 Wordpress plugin – Sherif worked on this. You can track
>>>> progress
>>>> here.
>>>> OA-280 iPhone version of FixMyStreet clone – Jake worked on this
>>>> with Nat
>>>> and Chris
>>>> OA-195 Register of Members’ Interests Data Entry Tool (RMIDET) –
>>>> Keiran
>>>> worked on this with Tim.
>>>> OA-250 Capitol Words equivalent… only with phrase support,
>>>> weighted with
>>>> “unlikely occurrence of words together” statistic. Mary Gardiner
>>>> MP Contact Details scrapers for obtaining MP contact details from
>>>> other
>>>> States
>>>> Even if you weren't in one of these groups, please don't hesitate
>>>> to write
>>>> up your experiences, send them to this list, blog or tweet about
>>>> them (and
>>>> send us a link!).
>>>> Statistics
>>>> During the day we had:
>>>> Five total commits, two to the web application and three to the
>>>> parser
>>>> Nine issues in total updated in the bug tracker, with four issues
>>>> resolved
>>>> A number of new developers added to the bug tracker so there's now
>>>> over 10
>>>> people that can update tickets
>>>> There's a lot more effort that's not in these numbers that
>>>> hopefully will
>>>> be coming out in the days ahead as people start releasing their
>>>> results from
>>>> the day.
>>>> Pretty impressive for a first effort I think, as Matthew says, "Give
>>>> yourself a big pat on the back!" :)
>>>> Get Involved
>>>> Matthew gave a great introduction where he reminded us of how we
>>>> can all
>>>> get involved:
>>>> If you're getting this email, you already are signed up, so please
>>>> forward
>>>> this to others that were at the hackfest that might not have got
>>>> around to
>>>> it
>>>> Thanks again to the core organisers, Matthew, Kat and Sarah for
>>>> initiating
>>>> such an excellent event, thanks to Google, Tim and James for an
>>>> excellent
>>>> venue and facilities but thanks most of all to everyone that came
>>>> and made
>>>> it the great day it was.
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Henare
>>>> PS. Don't forget to tag your photos and tweets about the day oah09
>>>> so we
>>>> can find them
>>>> PPS. We'll be posting this summary to our development blog once the
>>>> projects send in their updates, so please get them in as soon as
>>>> you can
>>>> PPPS. Apologies for the HTML mail but it seems to be OK on this
>>>> mailing
>>>> list. Feel free to flame me if not :)
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Henare Degan<henare.de...@gmail.com> wrote: > Statistics
> During the day we had:
> Five total commits, two to the web application and three to the parser > Nine issues in total updated in the bug tracker, with four issues resolved > A number of new developers added to the bug tracker so there's now over 10 > people that can update tickets
> There's a lot more effort that's not in these numbers that hopefully will be > coming out in the days ahead as people start releasing their results from > the day.
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 13:37, Domain Admin<a...@ali.as> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Henare Degan<henare.de...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Statistics
>> During the day we had:
>> Five total commits, two to the web application and three to the parser >> Nine issues in total updated in the bug tracker, with four issues resolved >> A number of new developers added to the bug tracker so there's now over 10 >> people that can update tickets
>> There's a lot more effort that's not in these numbers that hopefully will be >> coming out in the days ahead as people start releasing their results from >> the day.
Does this Perl module include the electorates data? For all of
Australia? For all levels of government?
Or does it use the OpenAustralia database?
At the hackfest the other day there was some mention of a service
being developed that would provide geo-location > electorate mapping
for all levels of government. I was wondering if this is that?
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 13:37, Domain Admin<a...@ali.as> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Henare
>> Degan<henare.de...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Statistics
>>> During the day we had:
>>> Five total commits, two to the web application and three to the
>>> parser
>>> Nine issues in total updated in the bug tracker, with four issues
>>> resolved
>>> A number of new developers added to the bug tracker so there's now
>>> over 10
>>> people that can update tickets
>>> There's a lot more effort that's not in these numbers that
>>> hopefully will be
>>> coming out in the days ahead as people start releasing their
>>> results from
>>> the day.
> Very cool Adam, sorry I missed this in the original announcement. I
> liked the blog post[0] you did too, I found it after the OpenAustralia
> tweet[1].
I'm the guy responsible for myrepresentatives.org which I suspect is the service you heard mention of on Sat. The Perl module that Adam talks about is the first pass at modularising the code behind myrepresentatives.org.
At the moment, the DB contains the geo data for the House of Reps, the Senate, and the NSW and Vic Legislative Assemblies and Legislative Councils as well as the details of the elected officials in all those chambers. There is some other member data in there but no matching geo data.
I am working on a couple of simultaneous projects. One, getting more geo data. To date, this has been sourced from Mapinfo files published by electoral commissions that are processed with custom Perl code. I am working on adding the kml data provided by http://www.tallyroom.com.au/maps.
The other project is a scraper to gather data on all the elected officials in Australia at all three levels of govt. You can find this code at http://svn.ali.as/cpan/websites/myrepresentatives.org/members/ . If you want more info on that, email me directly.
My aim is to eventually combine the geo and the member data for all representative chambers in Australia (which run to approx 580 bodies) and make the data available at myrepresentatives.org (app, DB, API, whichever there is demand for). Adam's aim is to modularise all of this and make it available via CPAN (which you can get more info on via his journal posting).
At the moment there is no linkage between this and OA although I would hope that eventually there will be for very obvious reasons.
> Does this Perl module include the electorates data? For all of
> Australia? For all levels of government?
> Or does it use the OpenAustralia database?
> At the hackfest the other day there was some mention of a service
> being developed that would provide geo-location > electorate mapping
> for all levels of government. I was wondering if this is that?
> Cheers,
> Jake
> On 17/06/2009, at 9:03 AM, Henare Degan wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 13:37, Domain Admin<a...@ali.as> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Henare
>>> Degan<henare.de...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Statistics
>>>> During the day we had:
>>>> Five total commits, two to the web application and three to the
>>>> parser
>>>> Nine issues in total updated in the bug tracker, with four issues
>>>> resolved
>>>> A number of new developers added to the bug tracker so there's now
>>>> over 10
>>>> people that can update tickets
>>>> There's a lot more effort that's not in these numbers that
>>>> hopefully will be
>>>> coming out in the days ahead as people start releasing their
>>>> results from
>>>> the day.
>>> And one CPAN release. :)
>>> Adam K
>> Very cool Adam, sorry I missed this in the original announcement. I
>> liked the blog post[0] you did too, I found it after the OpenAustralia
>> tweet[1].
Hi Jeffery
Sounds interesting and potentially relevant to the work I'm starting on
http://tickets.openaustralia.org/browse/OA-173. Can I pick your brains about
mapping data & options at some point?
Cheers
Mark
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Jeffery Candiloro <
> I'm the guy responsible for myrepresentatives.org which I suspect is the
> service you heard mention of on Sat. The Perl module that Adam talks
> about is the first pass at modularising the code behind
> myrepresentatives.org.
> At the moment, the DB contains the geo data for the House of Reps, the
> Senate, and the NSW and Vic Legislative Assemblies and Legislative
> Councils as well as the details of the elected officials in all those
> chambers. There is some other member data in there but no matching geo
> data.
> I am working on a couple of simultaneous projects. One, getting more
> geo data. To date, this has been sourced from Mapinfo files published
> by electoral commissions that are processed with custom Perl code. I am
> working on adding the kml data provided by
> http://www.tallyroom.com.au/maps.
> The other project is a scraper to gather data on all the elected
> officials in Australia at all three levels of govt. You can find this
> code at http://svn.ali.as/cpan/websites/myrepresentatives.org/members/ .
> If you want more info on that, email me directly.
> My aim is to eventually combine the geo and the member data for all
> representative chambers in Australia (which run to approx 580 bodies)
> and make the data available at myrepresentatives.org (app, DB, API,
> whichever there is demand for). Adam's aim is to modularise all of this
> and make it available via CPAN (which you can get more info on via his
> journal posting).
> At the moment there is no linkage between this and OA although I would
> hope that eventually there will be for very obvious reasons.
> Cheers
> Jeffery
> Jake MacMullin wrote:
> > Adam,
> > Does this Perl module include the electorates data? For all of
> > Australia? For all levels of government?
> > Or does it use the OpenAustralia database?
> > At the hackfest the other day there was some mention of a service
> > being developed that would provide geo-location > electorate mapping
> > for all levels of government. I was wondering if this is that?
> > Cheers,
> > Jake
> > On 17/06/2009, at 9:03 AM, Henare Degan wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 13:37, Domain Admin<a...@ali.as> wrote:
> >>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Henare
> >>> Degan<henare.de...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Statistics
> >>>> During the day we had:
> >>>> Five total commits, two to the web application and three to the
> >>>> parser
> >>>> Nine issues in total updated in the bug tracker, with four issues
> >>>> resolved
> >>>> A number of new developers added to the bug tracker so there's now
> >>>> over 10
> >>>> people that can update tickets
> >>>> There's a lot more effort that's not in these numbers that
> >>>> hopefully will be
> >>>> coming out in the days ahead as people start releasing their
> >>>> results from
> >>>> the day.
> >>> And one CPAN release. :)
> >>> Adam K
> >> Very cool Adam, sorry I missed this in the original announcement. I
> >> liked the blog post[0] you did too, I found it after the OpenAustralia
> >> tweet[1].
Thanks for the speedy and informative reply. I'm interested in working
on an Australian 'FixMyStreet' style application (as an iPhone app in
the first instance - though that'll require some server-side code
which may grow over time). As such, I'm going to need a geo-location
(lat/long) to local-government look-up service. Is this something
you're planning on supporting?
Ideally, I'd love to be able to provide a lat/long and get back the
name of the local government body, a contact name, and a contact e- mail for the purposes of reporting problems. Obviously you're probably
not planning on tackling this last part (name, phone and e-mail for
the person to contact at the govt body), but are you planning on doing
the first part?
If so - what's your timeframe? and how are you planning on making this
available? RESTful service? free for anyone to use as they wish? Open- source code/data?
Cheers,
Jake
On 17/06/2009, at 10:09 AM, Jeffery Candiloro wrote:
> I'm the guy responsible for myrepresentatives.org which I suspect is
> the
> service you heard mention of on Sat. The Perl module that Adam talks
> about is the first pass at modularising the code behind
> myrepresentatives.org.
> At the moment, the DB contains the geo data for the House of Reps, the
> Senate, and the NSW and Vic Legislative Assemblies and Legislative
> Councils as well as the details of the elected officials in all those
> chambers. There is some other member data in there but no matching
> geo
> data.
> I am working on a couple of simultaneous projects. One, getting more
> geo data. To date, this has been sourced from Mapinfo files published
> by electoral commissions that are processed with custom Perl code. > I am
> working on adding the kml data provided by http://www.tallyroom.com.au/maps > .
> The other project is a scraper to gather data on all the elected
> officials in Australia at all three levels of govt. You can find this
> code at http://svn.ali.as/cpan/websites/myrepresentatives.org/ > members/ .
> If you want more info on that, email me directly.
> My aim is to eventually combine the geo and the member data for all
> representative chambers in Australia (which run to approx 580 bodies)
> and make the data available at myrepresentatives.org (app, DB, API,
> whichever there is demand for). Adam's aim is to modularise all of
> this
> and make it available via CPAN (which you can get more info on via his
> journal posting).
> At the moment there is no linkage between this and OA although I would
> hope that eventually there will be for very obvious reasons.
> Cheers
> Jeffery
> Jake MacMullin wrote:
>> Adam,
>> Does this Perl module include the electorates data? For all of
>> Australia? For all levels of government?
>> Or does it use the OpenAustralia database?
>> At the hackfest the other day there was some mention of a service
>> being developed that would provide geo-location > electorate mapping
>> for all levels of government. I was wondering if this is that?
>> Cheers,
>> Jake
>> On 17/06/2009, at 9:03 AM, Henare Degan wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 13:37, Domain Admin<a...@ali.as> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Henare
>>>> Degan<henare.de...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Statistics
>>>>> During the day we had:
>>>>> Five total commits, two to the web application and three to the
>>>>> parser
>>>>> Nine issues in total updated in the bug tracker, with four issues
>>>>> resolved
>>>>> A number of new developers added to the bug tracker so there's now
>>>>> over 10
>>>>> people that can update tickets
>>>>> There's a lot more effort that's not in these numbers that
>>>>> hopefully will be
>>>>> coming out in the days ahead as people start releasing their
>>>>> results from
>>>>> the day.
>>>> And one CPAN release. :)
>>>> Adam K
>>> Very cool Adam, sorry I missed this in the original announcement. I
>>> liked the blog post[0] you did too, I found it after the
>>> OpenAustralia
>>> tweet[1].
I think the lookup from lat/long to government body, contact name and email
should be done on the server side. The web app (be it based on the current
fixmystreet code from the UK or something new) will need to do that lookup.
So, there's no need to duplicate all that logic on the client side.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Jake MacMullin <jmacmul...@mac.com> wrote:
> Jeffery,
> Thanks for the speedy and informative reply. I'm interested in working
> on an Australian 'FixMyStreet' style application (as an iPhone app in
> the first instance - though that'll require some server-side code
> which may grow over time). As such, I'm going to need a geo-location
> (lat/long) to local-government look-up service. Is this something
> you're planning on supporting?
> Ideally, I'd love to be able to provide a lat/long and get back the
> name of the local government body, a contact name, and a contact e-
> mail for the purposes of reporting problems. Obviously you're probably
> not planning on tackling this last part (name, phone and e-mail for
> the person to contact at the govt body), but are you planning on doing
> the first part?
> If so - what's your timeframe? and how are you planning on making this
> available? RESTful service? free for anyone to use as they wish? Open-
> source code/data?
> Cheers,
> Jake
> On 17/06/2009, at 10:09 AM, Jeffery Candiloro wrote:
> > G'Day Jake,
> > I'm the guy responsible for myrepresentatives.org which I suspect is
> > the
> > service you heard mention of on Sat. The Perl module that Adam talks
> > about is the first pass at modularising the code behind
> > myrepresentatives.org.
> > At the moment, the DB contains the geo data for the House of Reps, the
> > Senate, and the NSW and Vic Legislative Assemblies and Legislative
> > Councils as well as the details of the elected officials in all those
> > chambers. There is some other member data in there but no matching
> > geo
> > data.
> > I am working on a couple of simultaneous projects. One, getting more
> > geo data. To date, this has been sourced from Mapinfo files published
> > by electoral commissions that are processed with custom Perl code.
> > I am
> > working on adding the kml data provided by
> http://www.tallyroom.com.au/maps > > .
> > The other project is a scraper to gather data on all the elected
> > officials in Australia at all three levels of govt. You can find this
> > code at http://svn.ali.as/cpan/websites/myrepresentatives.org/ > > members/ .
> > If you want more info on that, email me directly.
> > My aim is to eventually combine the geo and the member data for all
> > representative chambers in Australia (which run to approx 580 bodies)
> > and make the data available at myrepresentatives.org (app, DB, API,
> > whichever there is demand for). Adam's aim is to modularise all of
> > this
> > and make it available via CPAN (which you can get more info on via his
> > journal posting).
> > At the moment there is no linkage between this and OA although I would
> > hope that eventually there will be for very obvious reasons.
> > Cheers
> > Jeffery
> > Jake MacMullin wrote:
> >> Adam,
> >> Does this Perl module include the electorates data? For all of
> >> Australia? For all levels of government?
> >> Or does it use the OpenAustralia database?
> >> At the hackfest the other day there was some mention of a service
> >> being developed that would provide geo-location > electorate mapping
> >> for all levels of government. I was wondering if this is that?
> >> Cheers,
> >> Jake
> >> On 17/06/2009, at 9:03 AM, Henare Degan wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 13:37, Domain Admin<a...@ali.as> wrote:
> >>>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Henare
> >>>> Degan<henare.de...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>> Statistics
> >>>>> During the day we had:
> >>>>> Five total commits, two to the web application and three to the
> >>>>> parser
> >>>>> Nine issues in total updated in the bug tracker, with four issues
> >>>>> resolved
> >>>>> A number of new developers added to the bug tracker so there's now
> >>>>> over 10
> >>>>> people that can update tickets
> >>>>> There's a lot more effort that's not in these numbers that
> >>>>> hopefully will be
> >>>>> coming out in the days ahead as people start releasing their
> >>>>> results from
> >>>>> the day.
> >>>> And one CPAN release. :)
> >>>> Adam K
> >>> Very cool Adam, sorry I missed this in the original announcement. I
> >>> liked the blog post[0] you did too, I found it after the
> >>> OpenAustralia
> >>> tweet[1].
> I think the lookup from lat/long to government body, contact name
> and email should be done on the server side. The web app (be it
> based on the current fixmystreet code from the UK or something new)
> will need to do that lookup. So, there's no need to duplicate all
> that logic on the client side.
> Matthew
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Jake MacMullin
> <jmacmul...@mac.com> wrote:
> Jeffery,
> Thanks for the speedy and informative reply. I'm interested in working
> on an Australian 'FixMyStreet' style application (as an iPhone app in
> the first instance - though that'll require some server-side code
> which may grow over time). As such, I'm going to need a geo-location
> (lat/long) to local-government look-up service. Is this something
> you're planning on supporting?
> Ideally, I'd love to be able to provide a lat/long and get back the
> name of the local government body, a contact name, and a contact e-
> mail for the purposes of reporting problems. Obviously you're probably
> not planning on tackling this last part (name, phone and e-mail for
> the person to contact at the govt body), but are you planning on doing
> the first part?
> If so - what's your timeframe? and how are you planning on making this
> available? RESTful service? free for anyone to use as they wish? Open-
> source code/data?
> Cheers,
> Jake
> On 17/06/2009, at 10:09 AM, Jeffery Candiloro wrote:
> > G'Day Jake,
> > I'm the guy responsible for myrepresentatives.org which I suspect is
> > the
> > service you heard mention of on Sat. The Perl module that Adam
> talks
> > about is the first pass at modularising the code behind
> > myrepresentatives.org.
> > At the moment, the DB contains the geo data for the House of Reps,
> the
> > Senate, and the NSW and Vic Legislative Assemblies and Legislative
> > Councils as well as the details of the elected officials in all
> those
> > chambers. There is some other member data in there but no matching
> > geo
> > data.
> > I am working on a couple of simultaneous projects. One, getting
> more
> > geo data. To date, this has been sourced from Mapinfo files
> published
> > by electoral commissions that are processed with custom Perl code.
> > I am
> > working on adding the kml data provided by http://www.tallyroom.com.au/maps > > .
> > The other project is a scraper to gather data on all the elected
> > officials in Australia at all three levels of govt. You can find
> this
> > code at http://svn.ali.as/cpan/websites/myrepresentatives.org/ > > members/ .
> > If you want more info on that, email me directly.
> > My aim is to eventually combine the geo and the member data for all
> > representative chambers in Australia (which run to approx 580
> bodies)
> > and make the data available at myrepresentatives.org (app, DB, API,
> > whichever there is demand for). Adam's aim is to modularise all of
> > this
> > and make it available via CPAN (which you can get more info on via
> his
> > journal posting).
> > At the moment there is no linkage between this and OA although I
> would
> > hope that eventually there will be for very obvious reasons.
> > Cheers
> > Jeffery
> > Jake MacMullin wrote:
> >> Adam,
> >> Does this Perl module include the electorates data? For all of
> >> Australia? For all levels of government?
> >> Or does it use the OpenAustralia database?
> >> At the hackfest the other day there was some mention of a service
> >> being developed that would provide geo-location > electorate
> mapping
> >> for all levels of government. I was wondering if this is that?
> >> Cheers,
> >> Jake
> >> On 17/06/2009, at 9:03 AM, Henare Degan wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 13:37, Domain Admin<a...@ali.as> wrote:
> >>>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Henare
> >>>> Degan<henare.de...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>> Statistics
> >>>>> During the day we had:
> >>>>> Five total commits, two to the web application and three to the
> >>>>> parser
> >>>>> Nine issues in total updated in the bug tracker, with four
> issues
> >>>>> resolved
> >>>>> A number of new developers added to the bug tracker so there's
> now
> >>>>> over 10
> >>>>> people that can update tickets
> >>>>> There's a lot more effort that's not in these numbers that
> >>>>> hopefully will be
> >>>>> coming out in the days ahead as people start releasing their
> >>>>> results from
> >>>>> the day.
> >>>> And one CPAN release. :)
> >>>> Adam K
> >>> Very cool Adam, sorry I missed this in the original
> announcement. I
> >>> liked the blog post[0] you did too, I found it after the
> >>> OpenAustralia
> >>> tweet[1].
> Thanks for the speedy and informative reply. I'm interested in working > on an Australian 'FixMyStreet' style application (as an iPhone app in > the first instance - though that'll require some server-side code > which may grow over time). As such, I'm going to need a geo-location > (lat/long) to local-government look-up service. Is this something > you're planning on supporting?
> Ideally, I'd love to be able to provide a lat/long and get back the > name of the local government body, a contact name, and a contact e- > mail for the purposes of reporting problems. Obviously you're probably > not planning on tackling this last part (name, phone and e-mail for > the person to contact at the govt body), but are you planning on doing > the first part?
> If so - what's your timeframe? and how are you planning on making this > available? RESTful service? free for anyone to use as they wish? Open- > source code/data?
Here's your basic web service - lat/long electorate resolver (written with fastcgi for efficiency - I'm guessing the db connection is expensive) - also untested :) Also based on my reading of the incomplete data.
#!/usr/bin/env perl use warnings; use strict; use FindBin qw/$Bin/; use Au::Politics::Geo "$Bin/db.sqlite" ; use CGI::Simple; use JSON::Any; use FCGI;
while($request->Accept() >= 0) { my $q = CGI::Simple->new; my $lat = $q->param('lat'); my $long = $q->param('long'); my @electorates = Politics::AU::Geo->geo2electorates($lat, $long) or die "couldn't find electorates from lat: $lat and long: $long\n" my $j = JSON::Any->new;
> Here's your basic web service - lat/long electorate resolver (written > with fastcgi for efficiency - I'm guessing the db connection is > expensive) - also untested :) Also based on my reading of the > incomplete data.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Jake MacMullin <jmacmul...@mac.com> wrote:
> Matthew,
> Yes, that was my intention.
> Cheers,
> Jake
> On 17/06/2009, at 11:06 AM, Matthew Landauer wrote:
> I think the lookup from lat/long to government body, contact name and email
> should be done on the server side. The web app (be it based on the current
> fixmystreet code from the UK or something new) will need to do that lookup.
> So, there's no need to duplicate all that logic on the client side.
> Matthew
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Jake MacMullin <jmacmul...@mac.com>wrote:
>> Jeffery,
>> Thanks for the speedy and informative reply. I'm interested in working
>> on an Australian 'FixMyStreet' style application (as an iPhone app in
>> the first instance - though that'll require some server-side code
>> which may grow over time). As such, I'm going to need a geo-location
>> (lat/long) to local-government look-up service. Is this something
>> you're planning on supporting?
>> Ideally, I'd love to be able to provide a lat/long and get back the
>> name of the local government body, a contact name, and a contact e-
>> mail for the purposes of reporting problems. Obviously you're probably
>> not planning on tackling this last part (name, phone and e-mail for
>> the person to contact at the govt body), but are you planning on doing
>> the first part?
>> If so - what's your timeframe? and how are you planning on making this
>> available? RESTful service? free for anyone to use as they wish? Open-
>> source code/data?
>> Cheers,
>> Jake
>> On 17/06/2009, at 10:09 AM, Jeffery Candiloro wrote:
>> > G'Day Jake,
>> > I'm the guy responsible for myrepresentatives.org which I suspect is
>> > the
>> > service you heard mention of on Sat. The Perl module that Adam talks
>> > about is the first pass at modularising the code behind
>> > myrepresentatives.org.
>> > At the moment, the DB contains the geo data for the House of Reps, the
>> > Senate, and the NSW and Vic Legislative Assemblies and Legislative
>> > Councils as well as the details of the elected officials in all those
>> > chambers. There is some other member data in there but no matching
>> > geo
>> > data.
>> > I am working on a couple of simultaneous projects. One, getting more
>> > geo data. To date, this has been sourced from Mapinfo files published
>> > by electoral commissions that are processed with custom Perl code.
>> > I am
>> > working on adding the kml data provided by
>> http://www.tallyroom.com.au/maps >> > .
>> > The other project is a scraper to gather data on all the elected
>> > officials in Australia at all three levels of govt. You can find this
>> > code at http://svn.ali.as/cpan/websites/myrepresentatives.org/ >> > members/ .
>> > If you want more info on that, email me directly.
>> > My aim is to eventually combine the geo and the member data for all
>> > representative chambers in Australia (which run to approx 580 bodies)
>> > and make the data available at myrepresentatives.org (app, DB, API,
>> > whichever there is demand for). Adam's aim is to modularise all of
>> > this
>> > and make it available via CPAN (which you can get more info on via his
>> > journal posting).
>> > At the moment there is no linkage between this and OA although I would
>> > hope that eventually there will be for very obvious reasons.
>> > Cheers
>> > Jeffery
>> > Jake MacMullin wrote:
>> >> Adam,
>> >> Does this Perl module include the electorates data? For all of
>> >> Australia? For all levels of government?
>> >> Or does it use the OpenAustralia database?
>> >> At the hackfest the other day there was some mention of a service
>> >> being developed that would provide geo-location > electorate mapping
>> >> for all levels of government. I was wondering if this is that?
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Jake
>> >> On 17/06/2009, at 9:03 AM, Henare Degan wrote:
>> >>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 13:37, Domain Admin<a...@ali.as> wrote:
>> >>>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Henare
>> >>>> Degan<henare.de...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>>> Statistics
>> >>>>> During the day we had:
>> >>>>> Five total commits, two to the web application and three to the
>> >>>>> parser
>> >>>>> Nine issues in total updated in the bug tracker, with four issues
>> >>>>> resolved
>> >>>>> A number of new developers added to the bug tracker so there's now
>> >>>>> over 10
>> >>>>> people that can update tickets
>> >>>>> There's a lot more effort that's not in these numbers that
>> >>>>> hopefully will be
>> >>>>> coming out in the days ahead as people start releasing their
>> >>>>> results from
>> >>>>> the day.
>> >>>> And one CPAN release. :)
>> >>>> Adam K
>> >>> Very cool Adam, sorry I missed this in the original announcement. I
>> >>> liked the blog post[0] you did too, I found it after the
>> >>> OpenAustralia
>> >>> tweet[1].
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