Memorial Hackathons for Aaron Swartz

[Ryan McGreal, Raise the Hammer]

Hi All,

Something to consider for Hamilton, perhaps?

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/science-liberation-front/PReQS-93WbA

Background on Aaron if you haven't heard of him:

http://raisethehammer.org/blog/2634/

Kind Regards,
Ryan McGreal

[James Arlen]

It's been suggested (on the hackerspace mailing list) that these projects should be aimed at opening up otherwise closed data in the manner that Aaron did with PACER and JSTOR.

Any data we could 'liberate' from lousy formats?

[Matt Grande]

Something I'd love to see is a "Who voted for what" tracker for City Council... I don't even know if the City keeps track of that information in any format, though, let alone a readable one.

Still, I'm more than willing to pour through PDFs copy&pasting (or transcribing if necessary) to get the data... assuming it's out there, somewhere.

[Scott Elcomb]

Agree - a municipal version of How'd They Vote? would be useful.

Very unfortunate that the original HTV? was shutdown
<http://daninottawa.com/2012/09/13/howd-they-vote-sadly-no-more/>

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Matt Grande <matt....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Something I'd love to see is a "Who voted for what" tracker for City
> Council... I don't even know if the City keeps track of that information in
> any format, though, let alone a readable one.
>
> Still, I'm more than willing to pour through PDFs copy&pasting (or
> transcribing if necessary) to get the data... assuming it's out there,
> somewhere.
>
>
> On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:22:28 PM UTC-5, James Arlen wrote:
>>
>> It's been suggested (on the hackerspace mailing list) that these projects
>> should be aimed at opening up otherwise closed data in the manner that Aaron
>> did with PACER and JSTOR.
>>
>> Any data we could 'liberate' from lousy formats?

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[Joey Coleman]

Greetings, apologies I'm just getting to this email now.

The City of Hamilton does not track votes nor do they keep records. Clearly, there is a need to create an app for people to review/watch video of meetings that I provide and input voting records.

Maybe a good idea for Feb 23rd's Open Data Day?

Joey