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Re: Avoiding parl.gc.ca duplication of efforts.

Posted by Tracey P. Lauriault-2 on Mar 03, 2006; 1:13pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Avoiding-parl-gc-ca-duplication-of-efforts-tp270p328.html

Russell McOrmond wrote:

> Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
>  
>> Is that kind of content suitable for the wiki? If so perhaps we can
>> create a script section!
>>    
>
>    I think links to projects is suitable.  The best place to get Cory's
> scripts is doing to be his project site:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/howdtheyvote
>
>    It is enough that Cory is making all of this available on
> SourceForge, and copying scripts to another place only means more
> maintenance as the script quickly get updated.
>  
sounds good to me!

>    We all just need to document things well, with Cory possibly making a
> separate release package at some later point for the scripts which fill
> in this contact information.  We'll want to help him with documentation
> and other things to make what he releases more generally helpful.
>
> Note: I haven't looked at the scripts yet, but checked a few new MPs and
> found some missing information.  This makes me believe that it is not
> pointing to the recently updated scripts on parl.gc.ca.
>
> Two examples to look at are Paul Dewar and Peggy Nash, two people who
> are first-timers in parliament.
>
> If you start at
> http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E 
> and go into the MP name there is an email address (Including for Paul
> and Peggy).  If you follow the riding name you get links to elections
> Canada which contain the EDID.
>
> The CSV file Cory sent out was missing email addresses for these people.
>
> (Sorry, Cory, for not being on-the-ball as much as I had hoped.  My hope
> was to be submitting feedback in the form of patches to script rather
> than higher-level like this...)
>
>