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Re: civic engagement using portal pages

Posted by Michael Lenczner on Mar 20, 2007; 2:33am
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/civic-engagement-using-portal-pages-tp947p950.html

oops.  I think you meant the aggregator. Not the portal page software.

The aggregator is called "planet".   http://www.planetplanet.org

but it's an annoying system of python and cron jons (and manually
editing a conf file to add more feeds)

On 3/19/07, Michael Lenczner <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On 3/19/07, Daniel Haran <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Wow - that's awesome.
> >
> thanks :-)
>
> > I assume the software that runs that is open as well? It may serve as
> > inspiration for similar projects ;)
>
> yep - http://www.wifidog.org . We (ISF) started that software project.
>  Now it's being used by 32 other communities across 4 contintents.
>
> The best thing is that each portal page can be different.  So that's
> why I always wanted per-MP rss feeds from howdtheyvote.  Use a
> hotspot, find out about the civic info in that area.
>
>
>
> >
> > On 3/19/07, Michael Lenczner <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > > Tracey included a link to this in the middle of one of her emails but
> > > 1) it wasn't public and 2) I thought most of you might have missed it.
> > >   I know that it's not about "access to information" per say, but it
> > > is about having access to political content in standard formats
> > > without restrictions on use.
> > >
> > > so check out
> > >
> > > http://civicsense.ca/?page_id=11
> > >
> > > http://civicsense.ca/elections/quebec07/
> > >
> > > from the project description:
> > > "The goal of Elections07 is to give a concrete example of what can be
> > > accomplished when citizens have access to civic information in
> > > standard and open formats."
> > >
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