I've been pretty happy as a voter and occasional contributor with the simple, wiki-powered http://ballotpedia.org . Unless one of the more complicated solutions screams that it is absolutely, 100% the right fit for your use case, wiki might be a simpler/more flexible/easier-to-bootstrap approach for getting up to speed, building community, etc. (I probably wouldn't recommend MediaWiki but I suspect others here might have better suggestions on that.)
Luis On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Steven Clift <[email protected]> wrote: > Lots of great examples from Europe. What do you recommend we explore first? > > > From: Steven Clift <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:15 AM > Subject: Open Source Voter Guide Platforms? > To: newswire <[email protected]>, brigade < > [email protected]> > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss >
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