Re: [mashable-city] EveryBlock

[Peter Landry]

Looking through the code now, and it's really interesting. The regex-based ebdata.nlp module is interesting...

How are we going to host this thing?

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Matt Gillooly <matt.g...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://blog.everyblock.com/2009/jun/30/source/

The code behind EveryBlock is now open source.  Let's get a Providence
installation going ASAP!

[Matt Gillooly]

I've never deployed a Django app, so I'm hoping other people know more about the hows than I do.

I'd be happy to start a cheap Linode slice if you think that would do the trick.  We can put up a PayPal donations link for anyone who wants to chip in on the cost.  Sound good?

[Peter Landry]

Yup, I think that would be a good start. I'd be happy to throw some donations in towards hosting. It should run well enough to get people familiar with it on a small slice, and if we need to expand later we can. I've also been happy with Slicehost, even though it's slightly more expensive.

Deployment will basically be:

- Apache

- Prerequisites for geodjango (proj4, gdal, geos)

- PostGIS

- Pulling Django trunk

- mod_wsgi

The only trouble area I see at the moment is the initial block import, using census data. The .dbf might not fit in memory on the server (which they warn about in the readme). If not, I suppose we can do it locally and upload the results. It might end up not even being an issue.

Should we set a project up on something like bitbucket or github?

Peter

[Matt Gillooly]

Cool.  The cheapest Linode gives us a bit more memory, so I'll snag one of those and send you the auth info off-list.

Setting a project up is a good idea.  Whichever you think is the way to go is fine by me.

cheers,
Matt

[Matt Gillooly]

Any preference on OS? Do we want 64 bit?

On Jul 1, 10:16 am, Peter Landry <peter.lan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yup, I think that would be a good start. I'd be happy to throw some
> donations in towards hosting. It should run well enough to get people
> familiar with it on a small slice, and if we need to expand later we can.
> I've also been happy with Slicehost, even though it's slightly more
> expensive.
> Deployment will basically be:
> - Apache
> - Prerequisites for geodjango (proj4, gdal, geos)
> - PostGIS
> - Pulling Django trunk
> - mod_wsgi
>
> The only trouble area I see at the moment is the initial block import, using
> census data. The .dbf might not fit in memory on the server (which they warn
> about in the readme). If not, I suppose we can do it locally and upload the
> results. It might end up not even being an issue.
>
> Should we set a project up on something like bitbucket or github?
>
> Peter
>

> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Matt Gillooly <matt.gillo...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > I've never deployed a Django app, so I'm hoping other people know more
> > about the hows than I do.
>
> > I'd be happy to start a cheap Linode slice if you think that would do the
> > trick.  We can put up a PayPal donations link for anyone who wants to chip
> > in on the cost.  Sound good?
>

> > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Peter Landry <peter.lan...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >> Looking through the code now, and it's really interesting. The regex-based
> >> ebdata.nlp module is interesting...
> >> How are we going to host this thing?
>

[Peter Landry]

I've created a bitbucket repository for our EveryBlock implementation. Let me know usernames and I'll add you to the project.

Peter

[Matt Gillooly]

Great.  I'm mattgillooly (http://bitbucket.org/mattgillooly/)

cheers,
Matt

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[Peter Landry]

The url, btw is:

http://bitbucket.org/peterlandry/mashablecity/