[okfn-discuss] Fwd: Open Source Voter Guide Platforms?

Wed Jun 18 15:48:01 UTC 2014

I've been pretty happy as a voter and occasional contributor with the
simple, wiki-powered http://ballotpedia.org . Unless one of the more
complicated solutions screams that it is absolutely, 100% the right fit for
your use case, wiki might be a simpler/more flexible/easier-to-bootstrap
approach for getting up to speed, building community, etc. (I probably
wouldn't recommend MediaWiki but I suspect others here might have better
suggestions on that.)

Luis

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Steven Clift <clift at e-democracy.org> wrote:

> Lots of great examples from Europe. What do you recommend we explore first?
>
>
> From: Steven Clift <clift at e-democracy.org>
> Date: Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:15 AM
> Subject: Open Source Voter Guide Platforms?
> To: newswire <newswire at groups.dowire.org>, brigade <
> brigade at codeforamerica.org>
>
>
> With  http://hackformn.org coming up with weekend, I've planted a seed
> for a group to crowd-source social media links tied to the 134 state
> house seats in Minnesota.
>
> The government collects campaign web addresses and email (some they
> added to the campaign fling form at my suggestion a decade ago), but
> not social media links, a stock digital photo, or any basic candidate
> information.
>
> My goal is to stand up a pretty basic voter guide that builds on our
> previous effort to crowd-source social media links for existing house
> members: http://bit.ly/mnlegsocialmedianotes
>
> Ideally candidates will be able to upload a stock photo and character
> limited free form text, insert a youtube video link, update the social
> media links we don't have, and voters will be able to look up the
> candidates by their address or a map.
>
> KEY is taking a creative commons approach that says anyone may reuse
> the data and therefore lower the cost for the media and others
> creating other voters guides.
>
> I know of http://Consider.It which is used with the
> http://LivingVotersGuide.org in Washington State, but the frame is to
> help people evaluation ballot measures (which we rarely have
> state-wide in Minnesota).
>
> Via some parliamentary monitoring circles and Twitter I was sent:
>
> 1. http://bit.ly/1lxW68C - 134 voter advice applications spreadsheet -
> via https://twitter.com/kamilgregor and a map from Europe
> http://bit.ly/1iEejkX
>
> 2. http://voisietequi.it runs on django/web.py over python,
> Source code is on github, at
> https://github.com/openpolis/voisietequi/tree/vsq2,
> and https://github.com/openpolis/voisietequi-computer
>
> 3. http://www.votematch.eu http://www.euvox2014.eu
>
> 4. http://volebnikalkulacka.cz http://volebnikalkulacka.sk
> http://partmonitor.hu
>
> 5. ParliamentWatch is running on Drupal.
> We released all code on:
> https://github.com/parliamentwatch/parliamentwatch
> http://www.parliamentwatch.org
>
>
> So what am I missing?
>
> What code out there would be the easiest to adapt to our stated goal
> of a simple system for candidates to be invited to upload ore details
> and others to be able to get and reuse the data?
>
> Thanks,
> Steven Clift
>
>
> Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com
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