[NUUG fiksgatami] FixMystreet in Norway?

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Tue Dec 28 18:04:35 CET 2010


Hi, Tom.  Did you get this email?  I have not seen a reply.

We need a review of the task list and an estimate from you how much
money MySociety will need to make FixMyStreet work for Norway.

[Petter Reinholdtsen 2010-12-17]
> [Tom Steinberg]
> > Unfortunately I have not seen any previous correspondence about this,
> > and now I see that it is because it was marking all Christer's emails
> > as spam. So sorry! I am very glad you persisted with emailing today.
> 
> Aha.  Glad we were able to figure that out. :)
> 
> > There remains, however, one key question, which is how much money
> > might be available to do this project?
> 
> Right.  To us the key question at the moment is how much is needed,
> not how much we got. :)
> 
> > Packaging and supporting software for re-use in other countries is a
> > lot harder than building it in the first place.
> 
> As Christer said in his initial email and his followup, all available
> from <URL: http://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/fiksgatami/2010-November/000140.html >,
> we have an idea what tasks are needed to adjust fixmystreet for Norway
> (list available in the URL above), and want someone that know the code
> more to verify if this list is complete and for mysociety to give us
> an estimate on how much you want to make these adjustments to the
> code.
> 
> When we have an estimate on how much money is needed, we will see how
> far we get with the funding we got, and if try to raise more funding.
> At the moment we have some funding secured (around 20k NOK, around 2k
> GBP) and promises for more, but we want to have an idea how much is
> needed before we continue.
> 
> We got a server set aside for the work, and a draft site operational
> (<URL: http://www.fiksgatami.no/ >), based on my effort last year.
> The patch used on this site is available from
> <URL: http://www.fiksgatami.no/localpatch.diff >.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen


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