[NUUG fiksgatami] FixMystreet in Norway?

[Tom Steinberg]

Dear Petter,

Yes, I did get your mail, but I'm afraid that most of us at mySociety
are on holiday this week. We will get you a response next week -
promise!

all the best,

Tom

On 28 December 2010 17:04, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:
> 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
>