Comments on: Crowdsourced accountability project: Progress, but we still need help from developers

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Busby SEO — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:45:34 +0000

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By: eee_eff

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By: Jerry Brito

Jerry Brito — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:16:39 +0000

Timon, I've created a Google group for the project and I hope you'll join it. You can find it at: http://groups.google.com/group/crowdaccountability

By: Jerry Brito

Jerry Brito — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:15:18 +0000

Kevin, I've created a Google Group for the project and I hope you'll join it. You can find it at: http://groups.google.com/group/crowdaccountability

By: autodidact

autodidact — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:46:22 +0000

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By: PJ Doland

PJ Doland — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:44:13 +0000

There are a couple of different ways to approach this.

The easiest and quickest option would probably be to populate a MediaWiki install with a page for each line item. Then you could build a secondary search interface for the bills, with all the metadata (cost/state/etc.) in a separate database.

The better solution would just be a full custom-built web application. The wiki change/diff tracking is probably the only somewhat complicated element to the process.

By: PJ Doland

PJ Doland — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:43:54 +0000

By: Jerry Brito

Jerry Brito — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:33:46 +0000

Thanks so much! I think late today I'll start a Google Group to coordinate. Cheers!

By: Jerry Brito

Jerry Brito — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:20:25 +0000

Thanks, Timon! I'd like to release this ASAP, but beggars can't be choosers. What do you think is possible?

I think I'm going to let a few more folks find their way here and then I'll launch a Google Group to coordinate the effort. Thanks again!

By: Jerry Brito

Jerry Brito — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:18:37 +0000

Yes. However we structure this, it should have a search function. That functionality will be made even more useful as users add context using the wiki. They might add some keywords that are relevant but not found in the simple project title that the mayors give us.

By: enora

enora — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:29:03 +0000

I'm curious, could such a database enable one to pull out types of projects by text.?Such as return all projects with “energy efficient” in the description? that could provide interesting stats.

By: Macho Man Savage

Macho Man Savage — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:25:01 +0000

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By: timon

timon — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:52:46 +0000

“provide water to the 53 Estetes subdivision”… sounds stimulating! Tasers and PCs for cops, $60,000,000 in new equipment for an Austin public agency that is expected to produce 0 jobs, whereas $70,000,000 worth of road building in another jurisdiction is expected to produce 42,000 jobs. And this is supposed to be the corrective to bad accounting. It is also fascinating to see requests for amounts like $23,580,821, or that a given project will create 101 jobs.

I would be happy to help with this if I can. As far as preliminary visualization, there is a nice firefox plugin for browsing sqlite files
What is your goal as far as time to release?

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By: snyderp

snyderp — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:11:16 +0000

I am a PHP / Rails freelancer and am interested in this project. I've got a good amount of experience doing custom app creation along these lines, though less using the specific packages you mentioned. I don't regularly follow the comments sections on this blog (I use google reader) but if you're interested in adding a developer to the team, feel free to contact me at snyderp - at - gmail

I'd love to be a part of this projet.

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By: eee_eff

eee_eff — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:16:57 +0000

Crowdsourcing as a methodolgy to decide which of these projects to proceed with seems particularly bad.

What training experience and education does the average citizen have to enable them to measure and evaluate different projects? Less populous areas will have their projects left out, while cities, having higher internet connectivty and population, would probably have their projects voted up.

Perhaps crowd sourcing each project to a community of experts who could evaluate different projects would make more sense.

My vote would go to those projects which make our communities greener and more sustainable--only have to look at the mess in Iraq and the ruined US automakers to see where ignoring little things like fuel economy and our reliance on oversees energy gets us in the long run.

Didn't you have a series of post arguing against the CAFE standards, Jerry, or was that one of the other 'free marketeer' here at TLF?

By: eee_eff

eee_eff — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:05:23 +0000

I'd like to participate in such a project, however Jerry Brito's track recordd of repeatedly deleting my posts because he disagrees with them causes me to question whether any input into this project would be similarly "filtered"

To create a community you need credibility and moral connectivity. Jerry, by his own actions, has cast himself outside of any community with common goals and destroyed his own credibility.

Outside of Jerry brito's own issues, this website has a clear political agenda, and is deeply mired in anti-social actions of its corporate paymasters. Examples: denial of global warming, and acting as apologists for Microsoft's many repressive actions.

eee_eff

By: kvn

kvn — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:33:56 +0000

This might be a good candidate for a Google appengine project. I signed up for an account months ago and have been looking for a problem that could be suitable for it. I'll see how hard it is to move the data into one of their Datastores and throw up a dirty GUI for browsing.

By: Jerry Brito

Jerry Brito — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:20:50 +0000

True. That's why folks with local knowledge can use this tool to put the project in context. It's not going to be a perfect tool, but it will hopefully leave us at the end of the day with more information than we have now. Right now we just have to take the mayors' word that all $73 billion are worth spending.

By: Don Marti

Don Marti — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:08:15 +0000