Comments on: mySociety’s Next 12 Months: FixMyTransport and Project Fosbury

By: Julie shrive

Julie shrive — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:00:25 +0000

Your site cannot be used for this as not taking the data . Yiu sent me the information . : There are many special disability issues which concern the discrimination shown by LA & GOL towards TAXICARD ,Capital Call & Blue Badges interrelating with parking where disabled are prevented moving around by the unreasonable criteria & procedures eg: only named bays rather than a mix and not enough outside hospitals . The taxicard call centre is in Glasgow staffed by those who cannot take messages correctly using & old system that doesn’t recognise present situation such as Eurostar Terminal.If you point this out they leave you stranded. Some Boroughs supplement difficulty in cabs turning up with Capital Call while others refuse to recognise the problem .

By: Ian M

Ian M — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:53:24 +0000

Related topic within the open data Manchester initiative spearheaded by Paul Robinson.

Hopefully MySociety can find ways to work with others in the same area :) Have you managed to secure funding for the FixMyTransport solution, or is it a unpaid/voluntary development? Sure we can all do something together ?

http://groups.google.com/group/opendatamanchester/browse_thread/thread/f6c48d3b840780e9

By: Richard George

Richard George — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:08:15 +0000

This looks really interesting. I work with a number of local campaign groups on transport issues, mostly to do with stopping road building, and would be very interested in seeing how you guys envisage this working.

Richard George
Campaign for Better Transport

By: 2 Bob's Worth

2 Bob's Worth — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:29:52 +0000

The 2 Bob’s Worth Project that won 2nd prize at the recent inaugural Australian Social Innovation Camp has a focus on micro-volunteering/micro-tasks and definitely has an interest in Project Fosbury.

It is starting from the other end, by making it easy for people to deal with little tasks and plans to work up to what you have in mind with Project Fosbury. You can read more about the idea at:

http://www.asix.org.au/idea/2-bobs-worth

The prototype site is live at http://www.2bobsworth.org.au and the code is on github (RoR).

Hopefully we can find some synergies!

Andrew
Director
Two Bob’s Worth Limited
(A non-profit social enterprise)

By: Eric Mill

Eric Mill — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:37:19 +0000

This is very exciting, Tom. There have been some attempts at generic real-life microtask platforms over the past couple years, but I think a site with a tight focus like FixMyTransport will motivate people a lot more strongly. I’m always impressed at what people will do to improve their commute by even a small amount.

Best of luck – and if and when the code is open sourced, I’ll see if I can’t contribute.