Establish feedback loops with potential users of Contract Countdown

[JenMysoc]

We need to establish feedback loops to inform development - see Contract Countdown – Plan for Alpha stage.

Aiming for at least 5 perspectives from each user group.

Calendar appointments are titled "Contract Countdown feedback call w/mySociety" and include Siôn & Zarino (ticked if completed):

Climate officers

• 22/11/22 – Tom Taylor, Climate Policy and Research Officer @ Southwark Council
• 23/11/22 – Claire Marion, Carbon Manager (Lead Change & Delivery Officer) @ The City of Edinburgh Council
• 29/11/22 – Andrew Collins, Specialist Climate Emergency Officer @ Wokingham Borough Council
• 13/01/23 – Donna Sibley, Sustainability and Climate Officer @ Torridge and North Devon District Council
• 13/01/23 – Olya K-Mehri, Senior Climate Change Officer @ Surrey County Council

Journalists

• 22/11/22 – Lucas Amin, Investigative Journalist @ openDemocracy
• 29/11/22 – Keith Magnum, Director @ Citizen News & Media Limited
• 07/12/22 – David Thorpe, Freelance journalist @ The Fifth Estate
• 11/01/23 – Phil Creighton, Editor @ Reading Today & Wokingham Today
• 16/12/22 – John Guinn, Local Democracy Reporter @ JPIMedia
• 13/01/23 – Bryan Rylands, Public Face & Editor @ The Shepway Vox

Non Governmental-Organisations

• 22/11/22 – Robbie Gillett, Arts Director @ AdfreeCities
• 28/11/22 – Shlomo Dowen, Coordinator @ UK Without Incineration Network
• 12/12/22 – Lauren Griffiths, Digital Fundraising Manager @ Solar Aid
• 13/01/23 – Colette Fox, Programme Manager @ ProVeg International
• 11/01/23 – Ruth Westcott, Climate and Nature Emergency Co-ordinator @ Sustain

Other

• 07/12/22 – Dr Anna Stegman, Local Energy Insights Manager @ Energy Systems Catapult

We could pay journalists for their time, and there's potential for a formal partnership as there's sub-grant budget available.

[JenMysoc]

Dependencies:

• Investigate getting more up-to-date tender data directly from other source #11
• Deploy site to a server #15
• Page for an individual contract #7
• Non-functional councillor contact form #9

[sequencefree]

Draft focus group format

• 00-05 – Project history.
• 05-10 – Demo and explanation of what it is.
• 10-15 – Participants have time to play with it on their own.
• 15-55 – Series of questions.
• 55-60 – Wrap-up.

[sequencefree]

Next steps:

• @sequencefree to establish if this ticket has an owner.
• @sequencefree to discuss focus group design with @ajparsons eg. questions and theories to test, a plan for how to run.
• @sequencefree to speak to Society Works about how they run user groups.
• @sequencefree to think about any potential crossover with FMS/WDTK Pro.
• @sequencefree to explore possibility of presenting at a POGO Club event.
• @sequencefree to confirm date for contacting council officers with Climate Emergency UK.
• @sequencefree to tailor Template email for procurement outreach and save as template emails.
• @sequencefree to share in Collective for Climate Action Slack and raise in Councils Working Group meeting.
• @sequencefree to consolidate and label stakeholders with Contract Countdown on Outreach board.
• @sequencefree to send relevant email to stakeholders labelled with Contract Countdown on Outreach board and log in Climate stakeholders spreadsheet.
• @sequencefree to consider approaching the following and asking for inclusion in newsletter: info@journalismfund.eu / mjarvis@transparency-initiative.org / info@journalismfestival.com / reuters.institute@politics.ox.ac.uk / srccon@opennews.org / / meeseE@cardiff.ac.uk & abbottM2@cardiff.ac.uk / samantha@hackshackers.com / info@journalismfestival.com
• @sequencefree to ensure dependencies are done before initiating feedback loops.

[sequencefree]

@zarino Are we only interested in feedback from UK-based journalists at this stage?

[zarino]

@sequencefree It’s unlikely we’ll expand to non-UK contracts data any time soon, but I guess it’s always interesting to know what sorts of things would potentially work in other countries. Which is a very non-committal way of saying, yes, I guess we are sort of interested in non-UK feedback, if they can get over the fact that our alpha version is all very UK-centric.

[JenMysoc]

Just checking: all calls should be finished by now? And we're in the writing up phase (which will be a separate ticket)

[zarino]

@JenMysoc Yes!

[zarino]

Think we can close this now, in favour of #47 which covers deciding next steps.