All,
I think I found a coder. I talked to the advisor for the MIS (management Information Systems) club, greg Smith. I explained our idea and he said he thought it was very do-able in 30 days. His only concern was not having someone to do PHP. Do we need that or can someone do the same thing in another language? Regardless, Sam is going to talk with him later today and hopefully get all this put together.
Can someone look into recording audio and what that would take to add to the application?
As for the petition, I don't think that's hard. If we have the option to read other letters, it should be easy to have the option to create/sign a petition.
Greg, from MIS, thought it would be pretty easy to add a mapping feature. They will have some good advice about how to do that.
As for the city council, they meet here in Manhattan every other Tuesday night. I'm not sure if they meet today, but one of us should find out and get down there with a video camera. But if no one can make it, maybe we can make an appointment to speak with the mayor and a couple of council members.
Heather
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Patrick was adamant in his thought that we could find a coder who would knock out this project in a week. Not only that, but that we could find a coder with the same open-source philosophy we carry who would do it for free. A thousand bucks is way too much, but I guess if the carrot on the stick has a price tag, then we should pay our way to nibble on it.
Posted by Brian Lewis-Jones | September 19, 2007 8:33 AM
Posted on September 19, 2007 08:33
hi there, jeff from rockchucks (team 2) here... just found a link which may be useful to you guys.
http://consumerist.com/consumer/your-government/how-to-write-to-congress-302775.php
Posted by jeff tatanus | September 23, 2007 3:05 PM
Posted on September 23, 2007 15:05
Thanks for the link, Jeff.
I agree that we should find an open-source coder (did I miss something that said that the person who said s/he would do it for a grand is opposed to open source?). That said, yes, it would be wonderful to find someone who would do it for free but I'm not particularly certain that I want to use that as a deal-breaking stipulation, especially if there's a chance that the schools will fit the bill (any word on that?).
That said, I'm not certain I understand the particular concern about video hosting sites being around in five or ten years. Sure, that's an issue, but it seems to me less of an issue than asking news orgs -- especially if we'll be courting smallish community orgs -- to give up a crapload of bandwidth for videos.
Posted by Nate Martin | September 23, 2007 6:08 PM
Posted on September 23, 2007 18:08