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Throwing caution to the wind. http://visiblepolitics.org is live.
It is a TOTALLY open project, so please jump in and shake it up. Totally open, except I guess for the main objective: "VisiblePolitics is a project to create a complete listing of Canadian federal politicians (elected and running for office) parties and ridings, with information about policies, funding, voting records, public statements, press, among other things. VisiblePolitics is a source of information; it is NOT a source of, or forum for advocacy of any kind." HOW YOU CAN HELP: 1. Find out who your Member of Parliament is 2. Visit the site: http://visiblepolitics.org 3. Add some info about your MP (you can copy some stuff from Wikipedia, some from the Canadian Parliament website, and ideally from the mess that is Elections Canada’s financial info site). Note that info should be lean and objective, and not editorial. OR: 4. Help with layout, wikiness, project direction, and tools (RSS aggregator in the wiki!!) |
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Let me know if you want anything from howdtheyvote... we are preparing
to update in the next few days (database is complete, just hooking together the front-end). Cheers, Cory. Hugh McGuire wrote: > Throwing caution to the wind. http://visiblepolitics.org is live. > > It is a TOTALLY open project, so please jump in and shake it up. > Totally open, except I guess for the main objective: > > "VisiblePolitics is a project to create a complete listing of > Canadian federal politicians (elected and running for office) parties > and ridings, with information about policies, funding, voting > records, public statements, press, among other things. > VisiblePolitics is a source of information; it is NOT a source of, or > forum for advocacy of any kind." > > HOW YOU CAN HELP: > 1. Find out who your Member of Parliament is > 2. Visit the site: http://visiblepolitics.org > 3. Add some info about your MP (you can copy some stuff from > Wikipedia, some from the Canadian Parliament website, and ideally > from the mess that is Elections Canada’s financial info site). > > Note that info should be lean and objective, and not editorial. > > OR: > 4. Help with layout, wikiness, project direction, and tools (RSS > aggregator in the wiki!!) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CivicAccess-discuss mailing list > [hidden email] > http://civicaccess.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss_civicaccess.ca > > |
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the main thing I need is someone to help install this on mediawiki:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/XFeed_-_RSS_Feed_Aggregator so that i can display a feed from howdtheyvote (and other sources) for each politician. h. On Feb 2, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Cory Horner wrote: > Let me know if you want anything from howdtheyvote... we are > preparing > to update in the next few days (database is complete, just hooking > together the front-end). > > Cheers, > Cory. > > Hugh McGuire wrote: >> Throwing caution to the wind. http://visiblepolitics.org is live. >> >> It is a TOTALLY open project, so please jump in and shake it up. >> Totally open, except I guess for the main objective: >> >> "VisiblePolitics is a project to create a complete listing of >> Canadian federal politicians (elected and running for office) parties >> and ridings, with information about policies, funding, voting >> records, public statements, press, among other things. >> VisiblePolitics is a source of information; it is NOT a source of, or >> forum for advocacy of any kind." >> >> HOW YOU CAN HELP: >> 1. Find out who your Member of Parliament is >> 2. Visit the site: http://visiblepolitics.org >> 3. Add some info about your MP (you can copy some stuff from >> Wikipedia, some from the Canadian Parliament website, and ideally >> from the mess that is Elections Canada’s financial info site). >> >> Note that info should be lean and objective, and not editorial. >> >> OR: >> 4. Help with layout, wikiness, project direction, and tools (RSS >> aggregator in the wiki!!) >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CivicAccess-discuss mailing list >> [hidden email] >> http://civicaccess.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess- >> discuss_civicaccess.ca >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > CivicAccess-discuss mailing list > [hidden email] > http://civicaccess.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess- > discuss_civicaccess.ca |
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Cory : I just hope there won't be another general election soon :p
On 2/2/07, Hugh McGuire <[hidden email]> wrote: the main thing I need is someone to help install this on mediawiki: |
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On 2/2/07, Hugh McGuire <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Throwing caution to the wind. http://visiblepolitics.org is live. Ah, this is the guy I was looking for, he's been coding scrapers for a few years: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/software/skippy.php#hansard |
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In reply to this post by Cory Horner
Cory Horner wrote:
> Let me know if you want anything from howdtheyvote... we are preparing > to update in the next few days (database is complete, just hooking > together the front-end). This is great to hear! I find your site quite valuable, but it hasn't had new Hansard reference since 2005. I find being able to find when a specific MP has spoken in parliament to be very valuable. -- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> Please help us tell the Canadian Parliament to protect our property rights as owners of Information Technology. Sign the petition! http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/ict/ "The government, lobbied by legacy copyright holders and hardware manufacturers, can pry my camcorder, computer, home theatre, or portable media player from my cold dead hands!" |
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