With http://hackformn.org coming up with weekend, I've planted a seed for a group to crowd-source social media links tied to the 134 state house seats in Minnesota.
The government collects campaign web addresses and email (some they added to the campaign fling form at my suggestion a decade ago), but not social media links, a stock digital photo, or any basic candidate information. My goal is to stand up a pretty basic voter guide that builds on our previous effort to crowd-source social media links for existing house members: http://bit.ly/mnlegsocialmedianotes Ideally candidates will be able to upload a stock photo and character limited free form text, insert a youtube video link, update the social media links we don't have, and voters will be able to look up the candidates by their address or a map. KEY is taking a creative commons approach that says anyone may reuse the data and therefore lower the cost for the media and others creating other voters guides. I know of http://Consider.It which is used with the http://LivingVotersGuide.org in Washington State, but the frame is to help people evaluation ballot measures (which we rarely have state-wide in Minnesota). Via some parliamentary monitoring circles and Twitter I was sent: 1. http://bit.ly/1lxW68C - 134 voter advice applications spreadsheet - via https://twitter.com/kamilgregor and a map from Europe http://bit.ly/1iEejkX 2. http://voisietequi.it runs on django/web.py over python, Source code is on github, at https://github.com/openpolis/voisietequi/tree/vsq2, and https://github.com/openpolis/voisietequi-computer 3. http://www.votematch.eu http://www.euvox2014.eu 4. http://volebnikalkulacka.cz http://volebnikalkulacka.sk http://partmonitor.hu 5. ParliamentWatch is running on Drupal. We released all code on: https://github.com/parliamentwatch/parliamentwatch http://www.parliamentwatch.org So what am I missing? What code out there would be the easiest to adapt to our stated goal of a simple system for candidates to be invited to upload ore details and others to be able to get and reuse the data? Thanks, Steven Clift Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 ----------------------------------------- Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire: http://groups.dowire.org/groups/newswire Replies go to members of Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/62AqKiOVgHU4fperKQZczB For digest version or to leave Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire, email [email protected] with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
