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Comment on Accelerating to the future of online democracy in Australia by Realising the potential of OpenGov/OpenData | BudgetAus

Realising the potential of OpenGov/OpenData | BudgetAus — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:35:47 +0000

[...] charity comprised of a board of 3 who, in their spare time and with the assistance of volunteers, implement open source frameworks that they hope will realise their vision to ‘transform [...]

Comment on Why we think that Freedom of Information should be easy by Mikey Leung

Mikey Leung — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:46:47 +0000

Cheers guys, was a pleasure to help out.

Comment on Opening up membership by henare

henare — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:30:50 +0000

Thanks for the comment Rich!

It’s been way too long since we were last in Melbourne, maybe it’s time for another hackfest? How about helping us organise it, then we’d have a really good excuse to come visit :)

NOTE: I moved Rich’s comment here as we accidentally left comments open on our membership page.

Comment on Opening up membership by Rich Larcombe

Rich Larcombe — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:05:17 +0000

Not sure if we qualify as haven’t contributed even a line of code to an OA project.
But my business partner and I did instigate/build Neatstreets back in 2009 (although the company who was paying our wages refused to open source/and or put it out for community development – hence we parted company soon after and set up our own shop “LogicBox”)
I did also just get rewarded by Matthew (with a t-shirt) for my efforts fighting for recently fighting democracy at a local level (Deniliquin Council).
Plus we’re Ruby/iphone/android developers so that could come in handy, although like everyone else getting time away from paying clients is a real problem.

Would love to be associated you guys somehow as am jealous of the work you’re doing.
Your work actually matters and does influence important things in life that most take fro granted!
(i was actually looking at transitioning the mysociety model myself and had some chats with Tom – but he explained you guys had beaten me to it)

As i said to Matthew, the next time any of you guys are down in Melbourne – we should catch up.

Regards

RIch

Comment on A Proposal to the Taskforce by matthew

matthew — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:30:40 +0000

John,

Thanks very much for the information. Extremely helpful!

All the best,
Matthew

Comment on A Proposal to the Taskforce by John Sheridan

John Sheridan — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:13:46 +0000

Hi, There was $1m remaining. Microsoft decided to gift it to the Government as described here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/govtech/archive/2010/10/26/microsoft-backs-gov-2-0-with-1m.aspx

Microsoft also provided $400k to broadband research:
http://www.microsoft.com/australia/presspass/post/Microsoft-contributes-24400000-for-research-into-broadband-applications

The $1m was allocated between the Attorney General’s Department, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and AGIMO to fund the cost of progressing the initiatives to which the Government agreed in responding to the Task Force’s report. The gift was reported in the IT press e.g. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/365616/updated_microsoft_forks_1_mil_gov_2_0/

Regards,

John

Comment on What’s new with PlanningAlerts, part 1 by matthew

matthew — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:44:09 +0000

Thanks Simon! Also, really great positive reinforcement for writing on the blog. :-)

Comment on What’s new with PlanningAlerts, part 1 by Simon Rumble

Simon Rumble — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:49:40 +0000

Love your work guys! Dropping some money in the donation bucket. Others reading this, please do the same!

Comment on PlanningAlerts for my mum (and the Northern Territory) by henaredegan.com » Blog Archive » What I’ve been up to around the web

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 01:50:48 +0000

[...] I wrote a little post about creating a PlanningAlerts scraper for the Northern Territory for my mum. [...]

Comment on OpenAustralia Hackfest – “What are you up to next weekend?” edition by OpenAustralia/ScraperWiki hackfest: my first ruby code! | jamezpolley.com

OpenAustralia/ScraperWiki hackfest: my first ruby code! | jamezpolley.com — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:07:14 +0000

[...] I’ve been hanging out at my old office, taking part in the OpenAustralia/ScraperWiki “What are you up to next weekend?” hackfest. I’ve been to quite a few OA hackfests before, but always as a host — this is [...]