[NUUG fiksgatami] FixMystreet in Norway?

[Tom Steinberg]

Dear Petter,

My colleague Matthew has gone through your requirements list, and he's
happy that we can help with the specific points you raise (except
local things like finding boundaries and doing the actual Norwegian
text translation, which is obviously a problem for you).

Our estimate is that this will require 12 days work from our end.
Normally we would charge £900 plus 20% tax for each of these days, but
because FixMyStreet is a project we care about a lot we'd be willing
to reduce it to £600 plus tax, making for £8640.

If you'd like we can supply a more detailed list of responses to each
of your points - please let me know.

all the best,

Tom Steinberg




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
>