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

[Steven Clift]

Here is what we have going on this weekend:

http://bit.ly/openvoter

We have a Drupal developer on our team ... so any Drupal connections
would be very useful in next 24 hours as we launch.

Steve
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Daniel Newman <dan at maplight.org> wrote:
> My organization publishes Votersedge.org which has national and state data
> including Minnesota, for the Nov. 2014 election. We will be announcing this
> week that we are making our data available via an API for others to build
> on.
>
> Best,
> Dan Newman
> MapLight
>
> On Jun 18, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Luis Villa <luis at lu.is> wrote:
>
> 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
>>   Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org
>>   Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy
>>   Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072
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