Here is what we have going on this weekend: http://bit.ly/openvoter
We have a Drupal developer on our team ... so any Drupal connections would be very useful in next 24 hours as we launch. Steve ᐧ Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Daniel Newman <[email protected]> wrote: > My organization publishes Votersedge.org which has national and state data > including Minnesota, for the Nov. 2014 election. We will be announcing this > week that we are making our data available via an API for others to build > on. > > Best, > Dan Newman > MapLight > > On Jun 18, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > open-government mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-government > Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/open-government > > > _______________________________________________ > open-government mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-government > Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/open-government > _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
