An ancestor of open journalism, in many ways.

10. It is transparent and open to challenge – including correction, clarification and addition #openjournalism
9:47 AM - 27 Mar 2012

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Publish our source code with a license for reuse.
Similar to Creative Commons.

Dispels the magic and reveal how we did things

Ongoing projects with realistic expectations of longevity, like crime maps.

Platform kind of things. But what we did was primarily discrete and relatively simple, in terms of code.

Most coders would say this is preschool kind of stuff. Most journalists would say this rocket science.

Cost, but this costs us nothing.

Virtually no risk.
To reuse you'd have to set up a server, do your own design, do your own reporting, get your own data. Very small chance of this.
But it's valuable for us to be transparent about *how* we do things so others can learn.
Think of it like an author would donate her papers to a university.

Make a list and group them.

Scrub the code for truly proprietary info, as needed.
Document.
Create a new archive on Github
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