Central topic
Where are we?
DATA
Have
Bills
Laws of NY
Lobbyists on each bill (project sunlight)
Don't Have
Digest reports
Hyperlinked laws and bill text
Laws history/amendment/expiration
Commentable laws and bills
Committee votes / attendance
OTHER NY PROJECTS
David Moore's open congress
NYTimes API
50 States
Senate's website
OTHER STATES
OpenCongress
OpenMass
Where do we want to go?
Archive
Bills
Statutes
Cases?
Web 2.0
Commenting
Voting
Tracking
Searching
Full text?
Filtering?
Grouping
By topic?
How do we get there?
Allies
Computer Sci. dept at SUNY?
Legislators
Lobbyist
assembly?
Money
Sources
advertising/shoutouts on website
lobbyists sick of LRS
member item funding
grants
sunlight
PPF
Needs
Deadlines/Requirements
DATA
Methods for getting data
FOIL
SCRAPE
Possible liability
trespass to chattels
Strategies to reduce risk
ask for permission
negotiate for rights to scrape strategically or within reason
ask for digest reports in exchange for minimal scraping
SCAN
Website
Functions
Bill retrieval
Bill tracking
Public markup
Blogs?
mimic DATA.gov for NY
Other sunlight projects
python api
district data
lobbyist data
Developer needs
databases
MySQL
postgres
sqlite3
front end
Django
AJAX
JSON/XML
Python
PHP
Ruby on Rails
Ruby
Rails
Basic ABOUT page
our goals
our principles
help us
our twitter/facebook/rss
SHOUTOUTS
could get us money
Organizational structure
forms
501 (c) (3)
Pro
Con
2-1 vote unfairness
Requirements
Cost
Formalities
Need 3 directors
Inc.
Pro
Con
LLC
Pro
Con
timeline
TO DO
fix postgres
set up MySQL