As it happens, for the first time that I can remember, one of the major political parties has actually tried to engage with the electorate by putting a personally addressed survey through our door; so I'd guess that there is interest from their side -- it's almost as if they were reading my mind/this list ;)
2009/1/23 Tom Steinberg <[email protected]> > > Given it's not a change we're gonna make in the next few days or > anything, > > how about we just add it to the "features we'd like to see" list thingie > and > > consensus can decide how important we feel it is? > > Thanks Owen, for reminding everyone about the ugly bogeyman of > resource constraints and prioritsation. > > The only thing we collectively voted for that might involve candidate > data was an election quiz site. I happen to think that a good quiz > would involve mailing candidates and asking them for information on > how they voted, as well as using Public Whip data on incumbents and > parties. > > As long as the team building the quiz site agree that involving > candidates is possible and sensible, then we will get into the world > of scraping/gathering candidate info. At that point, I'm all for other > people using the structured candidate data we gather for their own > purposes. > > all the best, > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >
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