Monthly Archives: February 2011

Open Spending Meeting Minutes 2011-02-10

Participants Rufus Pollock Friedrich Lindenberg Stefan Wehrmeyer Nadia El imam Stefan marsiske Agenda Previous meetings: http://wdmmg.okfnpad.org/meetings Updates Becoming OpenSpending http://okfnpad.org/openspending http://wiki.openspending.org/Status_2011-02-10 Currently interested countries, cities, places Immediate tasks Why is it hard to get data … Because gov have it … Continue reading

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Moving to Mongo: Where Does My Money Go’s new back-end

If there was a coder’s lesson in last November’s release of UK departmental spending above 25k, it was this: while there is already a lot of financial information available at the moment, the number of sources is set to grow … Continue reading

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Finally Some Answers on Where My Money Goes

It’s an innocent enough question: what does the government spend money on? Now, I’m not an accountant and I’m not a statistician and personally I don’t have a political axe to grind, I just want some answers to this question … Continue reading

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