[NUUG fiksgatami] Adapting MySociety websites

[selvam velmurugan]

Thanks for the clarifications.

I'll send out a mail to Matthew regarding the lat/long proposal.

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com>wrote:

> [Selvam Velmurugan]
> > For some reason, I thought Matthew already acknowledged that moving
> > to lat/long is a necessary step towards making the platform
> > generic. Should we ping him to make sure he (and rest of the
> > mysociety team) is onboard with the proposed change ?
>
> Yeah, probably a good idea. :)
>
> > Some high-level clarifications. Is your effort funded by some
> > organization/institution in Norway (or is it mainly a personal
> > effort) ?
>
> All our work here in Norway is volunteer work by members and
> associated persons of the Norwegian UNIX User Group, a member
> assosiation here in Norway.  We got hardware and network donated by
> the University of Oslo thanks to the cooperation between NUUG and the
> university.
>
> > How are planning to hook-up with the government departments (to
> > which the issues need to be routed)?
>
> We have not yet concluded, but the general idea is that the government
> can not refuse to accept requests from the public, and thus we could
> just email, fax or insert it into a web form to the appropriate
> department.  Some counties already have web services for accepting
> messages from the public, and we will probably use these where it make
> sense.  Our initial idea is to start with one of the areas where the
> county accept requests using a web form, and see how it work out.
>
> Hapy hacking,
> --
> Petter Reinholdtsen
>
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