Re:Search for and Contribute to Open-Source Government Projects
by ersii on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @06:08PM
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It might be worth mentioning somewhere that the site/project is focused on the United States. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's the impression I get when I look through the projects and filtering options.
It'd be nice to associate each agency with a country, so that you could filter on a particular country as well.
Re:Search for and Contribute to Open-Source Government Projects
by pp19dd on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @06:25PM
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Near the bottom, project bluebird description: "Guided twitter messages for surveillance prototype.. " Not a reassuring description. Or a very positive one.
The project is, afaik, a flu survey that tweets an encoded set of answers. Like, both piggybacks off twitter's infrastructure and benefits from its wider userbase: http://www.phiresearchlab.org/?p=2781
Considering what the project actually does, might be a good thing to rewrite the description entirely - if of course, it wasn't retired since it was a prototype and the test ended successfully.
It'd be nice to associate each agency with a country, so that you could filter on a particular country as well.
The project is, afaik, a flu survey that tweets an encoded set of answers. Like, both piggybacks off twitter's infrastructure and benefits from its wider userbase: http://www.phiresearchlab.org/?p=2781
Considering what the project actually does, might be a good thing to rewrite the description entirely - if of course, it wasn't retired since it was a prototype and the test ended successfully.
https://github.com/cfpb