[cvn-developers] Thankyous

[Seb Bacon]

Hi all,

Well, that was fun. And we really have made a positive impact. I'm
going to write a post-mortem report, which will include some of the
feedback we've had from people. A brief taster for now:

"I was really genuinely unsure who to vote for this time around and
this site really helped me make my mind up... I have now my made my
mind up as this website has helped clarify which local candidate holds
similar views to myself. I will now go off and vote based largely on
'They work for you' website"

"I should probably make a note of how the internet affected my vote,
what with that being my area and all. Quite simple: They Work For You
was the only election tool that wasn’t shit and missing the point.
Also starring BBC iPlayer and Google search."

"Passed the site around the office. Never thought I'd see the day when
political debate dominates the conversation LOL!"

At the awful risk of leaving someone out, I think it's worth
enumerating some of the stars of the project, because this was
massively a team effort. The list is topped by 6000+ volunteers for
gathering lots of data. As for everyone else, we've got massive
thanks due to Tim for the crazy hours of coding while he's meant to be
doing his degree, Francis for the work on the survey and general
support, David for sorting the Facebook group, Tom Dunham for helping
on the code in the early days, Duncan for doing so much work on
getting the final candidate lists confirmed, Edmund for writing YNMP
and fielding hundreds of emails and queries relating to it, James
Crabtree for media advice and helping organise the survey panel, Abi
for sending out 2000 letters & moderating issues, Anna for setting up
our free google Adwords so that most candidate names pointed at our
website, Matthew for sorting out postcode queries and the rest, JRRT
for paying my wages for the last month, Julian and Richard for input
and support on the DC idea, and most of all Tom S for all sorts of
things (not least initiating everything, sorting the funding and doing
LOADS of issue moderation), but in particular project managing /
chivvying / enthusing people at all the right moments. Finally there's
all the people whose work can't be specifically enumerated with
respect to this project, but whose past effort has meant that it's
possible even be here in the first place, e.g. everyone else who
works, and ever worked, for mySociety and friends.

Did I miss anyone out (parents, dog, etc notwithstanding)?

Thanks

Seb

[Tim Green]

Missed Seb off for sterling coding work, steadfast administration,
getting his work to donate server space and frantic media
hassling/handling - including holding his own face, something not all of
us have been pictured doing in The Times.

(also might be worth mentioning people who organised and attended local
meetups? that was pretty cool)

-t

On 10/05/10 17:08, Seb Bacon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Well, that was fun. And we really have made a positive impact. I'm
> going to write a post-mortem report, which will include some of the
> feedback we've had from people. A brief taster for now:
>
> "I was really genuinely unsure who to vote for this time around and
> this site really helped me make my mind up... I have now my made my
> mind up as this website has helped clarify which local candidate holds
> similar views to myself. I will now go off and vote based largely on
> 'They work for you' website"
>
> "I should probably make a note of how the internet affected my vote,
> what with that being my area and all. Quite simple: They Work For You

> was the only election tool that wasn�t shit and missing the point.

> Also starring BBC iPlayer and Google search."
>
> "Passed the site around the office. Never thought I'd see the day when
> political debate dominates the conversation LOL!"
>
> At the awful risk of leaving someone out, I think it's worth
> enumerating some of the stars of the project, because this was
> massively a team effort. The list is topped by 6000+ volunteers for
> gathering lots of data. As for everyone else, we've got massive
> thanks due to Tim for the crazy hours of coding while he's meant to be
> doing his degree, Francis for the work on the survey and general
> support, David for sorting the Facebook group, Tom Dunham for helping
> on the code in the early days, Duncan for doing so much work on
> getting the final candidate lists confirmed, Edmund for writing YNMP
> and fielding hundreds of emails and queries relating to it, James
> Crabtree for media advice and helping organise the survey panel, Abi

> for sending out 2000 letters& moderating issues, Anna for setting up

[Francis Irving]

You missed yourself out, of course :)

Thank *you* for making not just Democracy Club, but also the
TheyWorkForYou survey so good.

Francis