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• Introduction
• Making requests
• Your privacy
• OIA officers
• About the software
• Credits
• Programmers API
• Advanced search

Contact us

If your question isn't answered here, or you just wanted to let us know something about the site, contact us.

Credit where credit's due

What made FYI possible? #

• Nothing would have happened without Open New Zealand, which funds the servers FYI runs on.
• The encouragement of Nat Torkington, Ed Corkery, and the technical assistance of Rob Coup turned this from an idea to something real.
• Design work from Greer Mitchell and advice from Andrew Ecclestone was gratefully accepted.
• The Alaveteli software from MySociety.
• And me, Rowan Crawford, standing on the shoulders of giants.

Can I help out? #

Yes please! We're built out of our supporters and volunteers.

• You can make a donation:
  
• Help people find successful requests, and monitor performance of authorities, by playing the categorisation game.
• Find out OIA email addresses of authorities that we're missing.
• Write a blog post about either FYI or an interesting request that you've found. Post about it on a forum that you frequent. Tell friends about it.
• If you're a programmer, get the source code for our parent project, Alaveteli and tell us about patches we can pull. It's made in Ruby on Rails.
• Get involved with the Open Government Ninjas.