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This is awesome. Are you looking for engineers/volunteers? Also, don't listen to all these feature requests and get scope creep. The only additional thing I'd
by thex10 10y ago
This is awesome. Are you looking for engineers/volunteers?
Also, don't listen to all these feature requests and get scope creep. The only additional thing I'd love to see is even more granular levels of officials, but I know how difficult/nonexistent the data is there.
- epoch_100 10y agoEmail us at secure@politiwatch.org if you'd like to get involved. Thanks for the interest!
- tfgg 10y agoAgree with not getting involved in feature creep. There are hundreds of failed civic tech projects, mostly because they tried to do too much. Users do want "positions" or "issues" etc. but those are really hard to find / build good data for. That's the next level! epoch_100: Stick to making an awesome data source and interface to solve the one problem you've picked :) In the UK mySociety does similar things, their WriteToThem services gives a drill-down on the politicians for a given postcode. You'd probably be really interested in their http://www.everypolitician.org/ http://www.everypolitician.org/ project, which is trying to do this for the entire planet -- but generally working from the top down. I'm involved with https://democracyclub.org.uk/ https://democracyclub.org.uk/, which works particularly on developing really good election data. epoch_100, reach out to one of us if you want to chat :)