Posted by
Michael Lenczner on
Oct 03, 2008; 1:46am
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/ourparliament-notreparlement-soft-launch-tp1301p1307.html
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Cory Horner <
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> 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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