Re: [free-software-melb] [free-software-melb-announce] FSM Jan 13th - LCA preview: Planning Alerts, State Contracts then The World
How does a council scraping initiative started in the UK evolve to influence and inform how the Victorian Government manages its information? Planning Alerts was originally a UK service to allow people to subscribe to be notified when there was a planning application near them regardless of council boundaries. It's success has also been replicated (and improved) in Australia. It seems obvious to many of us that a significant factor is that the initial project and those that followed it were Open Source and open to the Communities they served. How can we better demonstrate to government the value of Open Standards and Open Data than by making it happen?
On the topic of open government, I just thought that I'd like to share a website that I've made. It's open source (AGPL-3.0+), and it tracks how every MP votes on every division in the Victorian Parliament. You can access it at http://vicvote.review
On 12/01/17 17:29, Riley Baird wrote:
On the topic of open government, I just thought that I'd like to share a website that I've made. It's open source (AGPL-3.0+), and it tracks how every MP votes on every division in the Victorian Parliament. You can access it at http://vicvote.review
Very useful, good job. Glenn -- pgp: 833A 67F6 1966 EF5F 7AF1 DFF6 75B7 5621 6D65 6D65
Ahoy, On Thu 12 Jan 2017 at 06:29:26 +0000, Riley Baird wrote:
On the topic of open government, I just thought that I'd like to share a website that I've made. It's open source (AGPL-3.0+), and it tracks how every MP votes on every division in the Victorian Parliament. You can access it at http://vicvote.review
Awesome! There is a similar one in France [0]. It also tracks how often the MP-equivalent were present/on holiday/AWOL, how often they voted, how often they proposed something, or asked an official question. I was hoping something similar would show up for Australia. Where do you source the data from? And how difficult do you think it would be to port to other states or Federal level? [0] http://www.nosdeputes.fr -- Olivier Mehani <shtrom+fsau@ssji.net> PGP fingerprint: 4435 CF6A 7C8D DD9B E2DE F5F9 F012 A6E2 98C6 6655 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted.
On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 21:06:51 +1100 Olivier Mehani <shtrom+fsau@ssji.net> wrote:
Ahoy,
On Thu 12 Jan 2017 at 06:29:26 +0000, Riley Baird wrote:
On the topic of open government, I just thought that I'd like to share a website that I've made. It's open source (AGPL-3.0+), and it tracks how every MP votes on every division in the Victorian Parliament. You can access it at http://vicvote.review
Awesome!
There is a similar one in France [0]. It also tracks how often the MP-equivalent were present/on holiday/AWOL, how often they voted, how often they proposed something, or asked an official question.
I was hoping something similar would show up for Australia. Where do you source the data from? And how difficult do you think it would be to port to other states or Federal level?
The data is from the "Votes & Proceedings" (Assembly) [0] and "Minutes of Proceedings" (Council) [1]. I don't think that it would be difficult to port to other States or the Federal level (although for the Federal level, there's already "They Vote For You" [2]). You'd need to find out how to extract the data from their records and then the website would work fine. Someone asked me something similar on reddit, and I wrote an overview of how the data extraction process works.[3] [0] http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/assembly/votes-aamp-proceeding-minutes [1] http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/council/minutes-of-proceedings [2] https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/ [3] https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/5n9161/victorian_parliament_trac...
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