Jessy Cowan-Sharp

#7 Sean Herron FTW!

tim , you can get summary reports for each agency at least at opengovtracker.com/reports (in csv format). i was planning to do a full dump of all ideas for all agencies, too, if people wanted it. let me know if you would use that and i can add it to the todo list :).

yes! very cool. planning to bring that in too– so many cool things to add in 🙂

awesome Amanda! Is there a way we could get at the data directly so we can include it in opengovtracker.com and give some exposure to the site?

i agree, except i think it needs to be paired with a really top notch awareness campaign. in the grand scheme of things, most people don’t even know these dialogs are happening.

it will also be interesting to see how we collectively become more experienced in carrying out these conversations. right now there’s a lot of us-versus-them, you…[Read more]

a few days– we did some poking around in the evenings early last week but really hammered it out thursday and saturday.

i dont know if there’s many lessons learned unique to opengov hacking. i agree with robbie’s comment– giving people a hook to help expose and bring users to your product and activities is definitely a good thing especially for…[Read more]

we actually are counting the site feedback totals in the aggregate vote and comment counts, we’re just not considering those categories for top ideas since we wanted to focus on suggestions for opengov– not about ideascale as a platform.

re votes, yes we are unfortunately constrained by the information returned by the API, which is the net total…[Read more]

hey tim! i haven’t done the math, but it’s true we are NOT counting off topic submissions. we probably would have made this choice regardless, but even if we wanted to count them, ideascale’s API is extremely limited, and does not include ideas in the OT category. would be nice to have a side bar on the number if they wanted to expose that as an…[Read more]

also teleworking… maybe with a snowball fight for lunch 😀