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Search:

Gah - test to see if it queries solr when new message arrives

Search for successful requests now has bogus date order :( Doesn't fit in
    with paradigm of request / incoming message being separate objects.
Perhaps we should be indexing events
    or maybe index success/failure by type known for message?
Successful requests should have success date as date in search results.

As a result fix up sorting in general 
Make /list be search


FOI requests to use to test it
==============================

Please send me all documentation relating to the decision to use results from
the Oxford Economic Forecasting's report "The Economic Contribution of the
Aviation Industry in the UK" in the "Air Transport White Paper Progress Report
 2006"

BAILII - relationship with law courts, robots.txt ?

"Fundamental Savings Review" - Tom's friend

Next
====

Search and replace text "FOI" and "Freedom of Information" out the way more
 - but put it in the title tag
"public body" --> "public authority"?

Adam's woes:
http://foi.mysociety.org/request/18/response/31
    - No doubt leaks email address via download.bin :(

Tom's request to Parliament:
    http://foi.mysociety.org/request/8

Consider removing login links from notifications of new responses
Consider password change code in relation to this

Now of course when ids go into requests/users for new ones it just adds an _ on end which is crap!

Later
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RDAs need their short names somehow in CSV import?

Send email to remind people to clarify

This search gives a runtime error:
    "19 hours

Preview when sending followups - especially people need to see quoting/subject
when sending "my response is late"

Holding pen with comments - new requests don't get sent straight away, but are
    delayed while people help improve them.

Change email address - easier to do now with post_redirect.circumstance?

One of the PDFs on live site has:
Error: PDF version 1.6 -- xpdf supports version 1.5 (continuing anyway)
Need to upgrade to poppler-utils?

Add lots more UNIQUE indices

Merge workflow into one stream - find information, if you can't find it then request it.
    so just search is on front page, with popular stuff below a la Google Directory

in sidebar of request 
    Link to WriteToThem - according to level of Government of body
    Start a petition about this request
    Share this request on Facebook

Tell application developer if working days table not up to date, and needs
updating

Response overdue alerts are only sent first time a request goes into that state :(
    Store id in alert of last event which resets the due date

Get deploying of Lucene search working

Consider on staging sites making follow ups go to dummy address also

Synthesise these tips into our handful of snappy snappy bullet points
    http://community.foe.co.uk/tools/right_to_know/tips.html
    http://www.justice.gov.uk/requestinginformation.htm

Show public body email address on their public page, with a link to say "this isn't right!"

Email me updates on this request
Generic alerting/tracking system including
    - email alerts and RSS
    - new requests, new good responses etc.
    - new responses to a particular request

Requests with related content (via Lucene compare document search somehow?)
Blog posts / Wikipedia articles about this request

Remember me box
    This can't possible be the best way, it is too depressing:
    http://onrails.org/articles/2006/02/18/auto-login

Screen scrape this and add link to it on the public body page
http://www.ico.gov.uk/Home/tools_and_resources/decision_notices.aspx

(10:32:14) richard: you just need to count the number of rows of text and compare it to the number of rows in the textbox
(10:32:29) richard: then increase the height of the textbox by 1em-ish
(10:32:52) Matthew: their function is called autogrow_textarea() by the way, if you just want to look at it...
 thanks :) I won't do it now as there are more important things, I was just accidentally impressed

Read wiki page lots
http://www.mysociety.org/moin.cgi/FreedomOfInformation
And comments on proposal
http://www.mysociety.org/2006/04/04/freedom-of-information-archive/

Hyperlink Section 1(3) to the act
    http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/49/response/86
and to guidance notes
    http://www.ico.gov.uk/what_we_cover/freedom_of_information/guidance.aspx

Properly escape all name_and_email functions

Give hotline to call body for extra help
e.g. Advice and assistance in making FoI requests to the House of Lords is available
from the Freedom of Information Officer, Parliamentary Archives, House of
Lords. London SW1A 0PW. Telephone 020 7219 0100. E-mail: foilords@parliament.uk
http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_publications_and_archives/freedom_of_information_in_the_house_of_lords/lords__foi___how_to_obtain_information.cfm

Including 'Request for information' in the subject line of your e-mail will assist us in prioritising your request.
http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_publications_and_archives/freedom_of_information_in_the_house_of_lords/lords__foi___how_to_obtain_information.cfm
Medway also hint at this with subject= on mailto link

Ask what they learnt from request, and other things?
    and reward by putting their request on front page

Description for each body as to what info it holds
Link to:
    Disclosure logs
    Publication schemes (http://www.ico.gov.uk/what_we_cover/freedom_of_information/publication_schemes.aspx)
    Website itself (for general search)
    Google search within website?
    TWFY department search
    Complaint email
e.g.
    http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/aboutus/foi/index.html
    http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/aboutus/foi/coiindex.html

Environmental Information Regulations apply for some bodies (e.g. environment agency) do automatically
    tag such bodies eir?
http://community.foe.co.uk/tools/right_to_know/faq.html#why_specify

Add geographical location to council import

Quoting fixing TODO:
    http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/64/response/102
    http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/55/response/96
    http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/71/response/108
    http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/police_powers_to_inform_car_insu

Sources of public bodies
========================

Call university of huddersfield

Three lists of departments
    http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page30.asp
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departments_of_the_United_Kingdom_Government
    http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ministerial_responsibilities/departments/

Executive agencies
    from links in http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ministerial_responsibilities/departments/
    and from http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ministerial_responsibilities/executive_agencies.aspx

Skipped these supposed ministerial depts (accoring to number 10 page, but not Wikipedia): 
    Office of the Leader of the House of Commons
    Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
    Office of the Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council 
    Prime Minister's Office (No 10) 

Schools list: www.edubase.gov.uk

Heather has emailed me NHS Trusts providing Mental Health Services

FOE site has email addresses of lots of bodies, e.g.
    http://community.foe.co.uk/app/tc
Has handy links to publication schemes that are now mainly broken

Be sure to add:
- all in schedule 1
- all publically owned companies


Visual design ideas
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Colour/shade requests and responses bubbles differently