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Goodreads for Local Farms/Ranches(registerguard.com)
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by jimterrapin 8y ago
Jim Gilliam backed an idea we had to make finding out what you could run for and how to get on the ballot. It developed into the free site runforoffice.org He was brilliant, fierce, opinionated, and amazing to work with. He will be dearly m
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
Ha! Thank you for mentioning that. There is an Open Data org in Canada that we've been working with, and we are also assembling the GIS data for the UK. Hope to have it within the year.
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
Yes to all of this. There are algorithms to be applied, we just need more/better data to fine tune them. Of course, it's politics, so it's more art than science, but there is a lot to be uncovered with patterns. Great thought
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
Yes, you're correct. Attorney General, Treasurer positions, Law Enforcement positions, and a few others do require advanced degrees. We have plans to include that in our data. Thanks.
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
Thanks very much! Yes, it is showing past results, and we probably won't get to fixing those for another 2 weeks. Some states have been completely refreshed, but we have around 30 more to go.
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
Thanks very much. You're right about including age requirements. We have the project in a stage where we just want to get it into people's hands to use. We have a lot of blank fields that we will go back to fill and make things mo
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
I don't have as much experience building/selling software. I'm sure tha practically everyone on this board has better tech chops than me. I come from a poli-sci background and the work on this project is what exposed me to te
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
Thanks, we do at @rfonb
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
Ha. Correct. Ironically, today of all days we are having problems with our GIS. One of our stressed out engineers is working on it!
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
You're right. We are going to have a more robust data set with those types of searchable features.
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
We'd love it. http://getinvolved.runforoffice.org/volunteer/?recruiter_id=...
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
Thanks very much!!
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
The purpose of the project is to do the local offices. If we don't have any for your county/town, it's just a matter of us not having volunteers for there. Local offices, in my perspective, is where all the opportunity and va
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
Dang. That's not the intention. We do have limited coverage regarding the local offices. We have done 50 of the largest counties in the US, which totals coverage of about 85 million Americans, however, that's only a quarter of the
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
You can contact me directly at jimcupples@gmail.com and I'll have a Contact Us page up in a day or so.
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
That's incredibly kind of you to say. Thanks!
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
Yes on missing President. Our focus is kind of the reverse, but we'll definitely be including that information.
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
We are definitely interested in including both. We do have coverage of about 55 very large counties, but that leaves a lot yet to work on. And, we will include all Tribal government positions that we come across. Thanks!
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
You are correct. We're behind on updating from the 11/2016 elections, but will get to them within the next week.
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
I couldn't agree more. You said it perfectly. The federal offices and state offices, all that stuff is easy. The hard work, and where the opportunity is, is figuring out the obscure Water Districts, Port Commissions, and similar positi
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
We have all of the positions in the following counties, as well as all Federal, State, State legislative positions: County State Population Los Angeles County CA 10,100,000 New York City NY 8,400,000 Cook County IL 5,200,000 Harris County T
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
I have to get to work, but would love to hear from anyone that's interested in this stuff. We are looking forward to building an API and helping people continue to build. Mostly, we want people to simply know what they can run for and
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
You're correct in some regards, but the model of $=victory is not as consistent as it used to be. I think of David Brat beating House Speaker Jared Cantor in 2014 as being the canary in the coalmine. There's never an apples to app
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
My name is Jim Cupples and I work on RunForOffice.org Thank you for the suggestions and comments. I'm a politics nerd that likes local government, and believe it has dormant power for movements. I wrote a piece called The Bottom Carrie
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by jimterrapin 10y ago
My name is Jim Cupples and I work on RunForOffice.org Thank you for the comments and suggestions. We agree with the comment on student governments, by the way, and would be happy to include them. Anyone can email me at jimcupples@gmail.com