Hey folks,
I want to apologize for not having been more active here in the past few
months. I went into a little bit of an explanation a few months ago to
address some of my challenges in giving this as much attention as it
deserves, but I've also been going through a bit of a transition lately as
I've become involved with some other projects. I'll have more to tell about
this over the next day or two, but the good news is that it looks like this
transition will give me an opportunity to keep pushing this effort forward
and inject it with some new energy.
I've been so excited to see all the activity around Open311 around the
world from the launch in Toronto to the impressive ongoing efforts of Code
for America (being showcased at 311Labs (http://311labs.org/), to the
exceptional work of Bloomington building out a comprehensive open source
stack around Open311, to the work in Helsinki building around the CitySDK
project (http://citysdk.eu), to the support of the World Bank and
MySociety's contribution enabling Open311 interoperability with FixMyStreet
for a project in Cebu, to support in new platforms like Ushahidi with Nick
Doiron's work and in Drupal with Holger Kreis's Mark-a-spot distribution,
to the ongoing support and continuing deployments from all the great
startups and companies large and small that are supporting this standard in
their products - please check out this page for a growing list if you
haven't seen it already - http://wiki.open311.org/GeoReport_v2/Support. I'm
sorry that I haven't been able to do more in recent months to shepherd all
this activity, but I'm confident we'll see a new well of support and
momentum in the coming months.
Jaakko thanks for building off of the existing tickets on the tracker to
help push the spec forward. I should be able to follow up on your thread
soon and I think the work I'm going to be involved with in the near future
will have much alignment with your work so we should be in a good position
to collaborate.
I'm sorry I can't be more specific about all this at the moment, but I'll
be sure to follow-up with more details in the next few days and in the next
few weeks I hope to pick up on many of the important discussions here that
I have been neglecting. I'm looking forward to collaborating more with
everyone throughout the year and on into the future.
Cheers,
Phil
I want to apologize for not having been more active here in the past few
months. I went into a little bit of an explanation a few months ago to
address some of my challenges in giving this as much attention as it
deserves, but I've also been going through a bit of a transition lately as
I've become involved with some other projects. I'll have more to tell about
this over the next day or two, but the good news is that it looks like this
transition will give me an opportunity to keep pushing this effort forward
and inject it with some new energy.
I've been so excited to see all the activity around Open311 around the
world from the launch in Toronto to the impressive ongoing efforts of Code
for America (being showcased at 311Labs (http://311labs.org/), to the
exceptional work of Bloomington building out a comprehensive open source
stack around Open311, to the work in Helsinki building around the CitySDK
project (http://citysdk.eu), to the support of the World Bank and
MySociety's contribution enabling Open311 interoperability with FixMyStreet
for a project in Cebu, to support in new platforms like Ushahidi with Nick
Doiron's work and in Drupal with Holger Kreis's Mark-a-spot distribution,
to the ongoing support and continuing deployments from all the great
startups and companies large and small that are supporting this standard in
their products - please check out this page for a growing list if you
haven't seen it already - http://wiki.open311.org/GeoReport_v2/Support. I'm
sorry that I haven't been able to do more in recent months to shepherd all
this activity, but I'm confident we'll see a new well of support and
momentum in the coming months.
Jaakko thanks for building off of the existing tickets on the tracker to
help push the spec forward. I should be able to follow up on your thread
soon and I think the work I'm going to be involved with in the near future
will have much alignment with your work so we should be in a good position
to collaborate.
I'm sorry I can't be more specific about all this at the moment, but I'll
be sure to follow-up with more details in the next few days and in the next
few weeks I hope to pick up on many of the important discussions here that
I have been neglecting. I'm looking forward to collaborating more with
everyone throughout the year and on into the future.
Cheers,
Phil