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Re: How will we use data?

Posted by Russell McOrmond-2 on Oct 16, 2008; 4:06pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/How-will-we-use-data-tp1356p1362.html


Daniel Haran wrote:
> That doesn't really answer Ilona's question, but hopefully it starts a
> good conversation thread :)

   Building upon Robin's script I scraped a bit more information from
the parliament of Canada website.  Turns out that you can check the
ProfileMP page using the key provided by the link to candidates as a
quick way to determine who the rookie MPs are.

http://www.digital-copyright.ca/election2008/candidates?rookie

   Once the MP information pages are updated to list email addresses and
websites again (they blank things out after an election), I'm going to
pull that in for all the MPs.  I never did pull in a full candidate
email list this year.

   I believe there is benefit in sending a welcome message to all the
rookie MPs, possibly including a quick recent history on the area of
policy you are most interested in (Obviously Copyright for me).

   That information will of course be available to the existing letter
writing tools we have, and the hope is that we can convince other people
in the 66 ridings with rookie MPs to send welcome letters as well.


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