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作者:thom neale 15 年以前

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OpenLeg

The document outlines a comprehensive plan to enhance transparency and accessibility of legislative processes and data in New York. It details the current status of available and missing legislative data, such as lobbyist information on bills, laws, and bill texts, as well as committee votes and law histories.

OpenLeg

Central topic

TO DO

set up MySQL
fix postgres

How do we get there?

Organizational structure
timeline
forms

LLC

Ineligible for sinlight grants

Inc.

Inelgigible for sonlight grants

501 (c) (3)

Requirements

Need 3 directors

Formalities

Cost

Con

2-1 vote unfairness

Pro

Website
SHOUTOUTS

could get us money

Basic ABOUT page

our twitter/facebook/rss

help us

our principles

our goals

Developer needs

front end

Ruby on Rails

Rails

Ruby

PHP

Django

Python

JSON/XML

AJAX

databases

sqlite3

postgres

MySQL

Functions

Other sunlight projects

lobbyist data

district data

python api

mimic DATA.gov for NY

Blogs?

Public markup

Bill tracking

Bill retrieval

Methods for getting data

SCAN

SCRAPE

Strategies to reduce risk

ask for digest reports in exchange for minimal scraping

negotiate for rights to scrape strategically or within reason

ask for permission

Possible liability

trespass to chattels

FOIL

Money
Deadlines/Requirements
Needs
Sources

grants

PPF

sunlight

member item funding

lobbyists sick of LRS

advertising/shoutouts on website

Allies
assembly?
Lobbyist
Legislators
Computer Sci. dept at SUNY?

Where do we want to go?

Grouping
By topic?
Searching
Filtering?
Full text?
Web 2.0
Tracking
Voting
Commenting
Archive
Cases?
Statutes

Where are we?

OTHER STATES
OpenMass
OpenCongress
OTHER NY PROJECTS
Senate's website
50 States
NYTimes API
David Moore's open congress
DATA
Don't Have

Committee votes / attendance

Commentable laws and bills

Laws history/amendment/expiration

Hyperlinked laws and bill text

Digest reports

Have

Lobbyists on each bill (project sunlight)

Laws of NY

Bills