Good morning list! What's new? Django powered Freedom of Information Portal!

[stefanw]

Good morning Djangonistas,

this is a wake up call for this list! What's new with Django and Open Government / Open Data sites? Tell everybody about your latest project!

I have been hacking on a German Freedom of Information Portal similar to WhatDoTheyKnow.com, but in Django and easy to install.

Uses Django 1.3, Celery, Haystack, South and som more good Django stuff. 

Code at https://github.com/stefanw/froide

Website up (soon and in German) at: http://fragdenstaat.de

I will come up with some docs in the coming weeks.

Cheers,

Stefan

[daonb]

Glad to see some more people are keeping busy...

I've been busy with setting up an Israeli non profit - the Public
Knowledge Workshop and releasing an open budget system under
http://budget.msh.gov.il. Next weekend we have a hackathon in google
R&D offices in Tel Aviv. We have a few projects we want to work on
please check our wiki http://govhackil.pbworks.com and pitch in.

Maybe it'll a good chance to dash on froide? it does look like
something any government should use. We do have a minister - MK Miki
Eitan - backing our efforts, so we have a good chance on making it an
official system.

Have a good weekend,

Benny

BTW - anyone coming to http://okcon.org ?

On May 24, 6:06 pm, stefanw <stefanwehrme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good morning Djangonistas,
>
> this is a wake up call for this list! What's new with Django and Open
> Government / Open Data sites? Tell everybody about your latest project!
>
> I have been hacking on a German Freedom of Information Portal similar to
> WhatDoTheyKnow.com, but in Django and easy to install.
> Uses Django 1.3, Celery, Haystack, South and som more good Django stuff.
>

> Code athttps://github.com/stefanw/froide

[stefanw]

Am Freitag, 27. Mai 2011 23:36:06 UTC+2 schrieb daonb:

Glad to see some more people are keeping busy...

I've been busy with setting up an Israeli non profit - the Public
Knowledge Workshop and releasing an open budget system under
http://budget.msh.gov.il. Next weekend we have a hackathon in google
R&D offices in Tel Aviv. We have a few projects we want to work on
please check our wiki http://govhackil.pbworks.com and pitch in.

Cool stuff! Have you heard of OpenSpending? They have also some budget data for Israel: http://openspending.org/dataset/israel

I've been working for the OKFN on OpenSpending.org and will probably also come to OKCon (it's close by).

I will send you another email and put you in contact with some people there.

 

Maybe it'll a good chance to dash on froide? it does look like
something any government should use. We do have a minister - MK Miki
Eitan - backing our efforts, so we have a good chance on making it an
official system.

There is no stable release just yet, but using it in more than one place is definitely the idea.

Cheers

Stefan