[OLPC-Chicago] Fwd: [Bytesfree-discuss] Voter Information Project - Call For Help

[Edward Cherlin]

We should be able to use this to datamine the Illinois Legislature on
HB5000, and on education more generally. Where can we put the pages?
Shall we start a Wiki?


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ilan Rabinovitch <ilan at socallinuxexpo.org>
Date: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Bytesfree-discuss] Voter Information Project - Call For Help
To: Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>
Cc: bytesfree-discuss <bytesfree-discuss at bytesfree.org>


Edward Cherlin wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:39 AM, Ilan Rabinovitch
> <ilan at socallinuxexpo.org> wrote:
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> >  One of the pieces we have been working on for our booth at LUG Radio
> >  Live is the release of an voter information project.
> >  Using dapper, deki and several other technologies we have been able to
> >  pull in a wealth of data from other services to auto-populate some basic
> >  profile pages for each elected official.
> >
> >
>
> I'm interested in how you did that. I have two projects that would
> like to be able to do much the same thing. Impeachment, and HB5000,
> the Children's Low-Cost Laptop Act, in Illinois--OLPC XOs and other
> laptops for 300 schools.
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Illinois
>
>
>
 Most of the project we've done so far is available here:

 http://deki.bytesfree.org/

 We currently pull in data using the following APIs:
 - FollowTheMoney.org
 - Sunlight Labs API
 - Govtrack.US

 I would greatly appreciate any feedback on content that should be
added. Right now the piece we are working on is campaign
contributions, but that might have to wait until post LRL due to lack
of APIs at the federal level. (ie I'm pulling the FEC database into
mysql at the moment).

 Ilan






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Edward Cherlin
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