Re: [liberationtech] [cfabrigade] What "elections" News Challenge proposals excite you?

2015-03-19 Thread John C. Osborn
Code for America submission https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/open-disclosure-california-connecting-people-to-their-local-campaign-finance-data On Mar 19, 2015 1:29 PM, "Derek Eder" wrote: > We just proposed a Politician Reconciliation Service that will act as a > cano

[liberationtech] Help Wanted: Open Sourcing Espionage [Was: TrueCrypt Alternatives?]

2015-03-19 Thread Greg
Picking up on previous statements made on this list, we're looking to hire a design focused Cocoa developer to help us open source Espionage: https://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2015/03/help-wanted-design-focused-cocoa-developer-to-open-source-espionage-3/ Know someone who might fit the bill? We'd r

Re: [liberationtech] [cfabrigade] What "elections" News Challenge proposals excite you?

2015-03-19 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
(Disclosure: I'm on the board of CVF) This is one I hope you'll all check out (although California-centric) that is a collaboration between the California Voter Foundation, Pew's Center on the States, and Google's Voter Information Project: A Unified Voter Guide for California Voters, Online http

Re: [liberationtech] [cfabrigade] What "elections" News Challenge proposals excite you?

2015-03-19 Thread Derek Eder
We just proposed a Politician Reconciliation Service that will act as a canonical source of identifiers in order to enable others to research and aggregate all the data ever created about a politician. https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/elections/entries/politician-reconciliation-service Pre

[liberationtech] What "elections" News Challenge proposals excite you?

2015-03-19 Thread Steven Clift
Please share some links to your proposal or to those you like most. Here is one ... Thanks to power of Google Docs and Skype chatter, a collaborative crew from six countries worked on this (more below from Martin): Who Are My Candidates? http://bit.ly/6countriesnewschallenge If you like the id