ourparliament / notreparlement soft launch

[Michael Lenczner]

Hi everyone.

A new project I've been working on with Craig Davey is live.  It was
actually at the same stage a month ago, but I haven't had the time to
work on it in a while, so we figured the best thing to do is to
release it while I finish up some other contracts and let other people
check it out.

http://ourparliament.ca
http://notreparlement.ca

It's in the same space as Howdtheyvote, but I haven't found a good way
of helping out on that project, and I feel that we really need to
knock this one (federal legislature + voting) out of the park so that
we have a great example of what CivicAccess is.

Feel free to give comments / criticism.

Its great to see all the activity on the list, btw.  :)

Mike

[Cory Horner]

On 1-Oct-08, at 1:21 PM, Michael Lenczner wrote:

> A new project I've been working on with Craig Davey is live.  It was
> actually at the same stage a month ago, but I haven't had the time to
> work on it in a while, so we figured the best thing to do is to
> release it while I finish up some other contracts and let other people
> check it out.
>
> http://ourparliament.ca

...and then there were 3 :)

With howdtheyvote.ca / quivotequoi.ca on a comeback, this could get  
interesting.

Will you guys be maintaining your own data set, or would you consume  
our data feed if we expose it?

I'm leaning towards a reputation system with versioning for labeling  
bills (and beyond), and a submit/review process for newbies.

Cheers,
Cory.

[Michael Lenczner]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Cory Horner <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On 1-Oct-08, at 1:21 PM, Michael Lenczner wrote:
>
>> A new project I've been working on with Craig Davey is live.  It was
>> actually at the same stage a month ago, but I haven't had the time to
>> work on it in a while, so we figured the best thing to do is to
>> release it while I finish up some other contracts and let other people
>> check it out.
>>
>> http://ourparliament.ca
>
> ...and then there were 3 :)
>

hehe ;-)

> With howdtheyvote.ca / quivotequoi.ca on a comeback, this could get
> interesting.
>
Sounds good.  As long as somebody does a kick-ass version of this.

> Will you guys be maintaining your own data set, or would you consume our
> data feed if we expose it?
>
dunno.  I guess it depends on what work you think you'll be able to
put in over the next year.  It would be good to specialize a bit.
I've been spending a bunch of time with ApathyisBoring (on their
board) so I keep on coming back to the idea of having a sexy + easy to
understand system at all levels (fed, provincial + municipal) but the
federal one done really well will have the most impact to help us all.

> I'm leaning towards a reputation system with versioning for labeling bills
> (and beyond), and a submit/review process for newbies.
>
That sounds exciting. Looking forward to it.

> Cheers,
> Cory.
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[Michael Lenczner]

At Daniel H's request, the code is now on
http://github.com/eigentone/ourparliament-notreparlement

and here's a mockup Craig and I worked on:

http://mockups.ourparliament.ca/PaulDewar.png

It's to show the direction of some citizen-facing tools.
Incorporating Hansard info with other info.  Kind of like the stuff
Robin is working on.  But much much prettier.  :-p  (Robin is never
big on UI).



On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Michael Lenczner <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi everyone.
>
> A new project I've been working on with Craig Davey is live.  It was
> actually at the same stage a month ago, but I haven't had the time to
> work on it in a while, so we figured the best thing to do is to
> release it while I finish up some other contracts and let other people
> check it out.
>
> http://ourparliament.ca
> http://notreparlement.ca
>
> It's in the same space as Howdtheyvote, but I haven't found a good way
> of helping out on that project, and I feel that we really need to
> knock this one (federal legislature + voting) out of the park so that
> we have a great example of what CivicAccess is.
>
> Feel free to give comments / criticism.
>
> Its great to see all the activity on the list, btw.  :)
>
> Mike
>