post election roadmap

[benny daon]

Yoram, Idan and myself spent the better half of the election day discussing ideas and the future of tzafim. We had fun although we didn't get around to code. Sometimes you have to do more then code, you have to set your goal and plan the future. Too bad Yehonatan wasn't with us.

Our goal is to "Modernize Democracy" our way is through a single Django site licensed under GPLv2 with a community of coders, promoters, activists and watchers. We've broke it down to a development goal - wrapping up the elections project and researching knesset.gov to see what we can get from it so we are better informed as to what our representatives do.

I'm going to lead the development for now, using the sprint days and the upcoming PyWeb-4 (http://groups.google.com/group/pyweb-il/web/pyweb-il-4) to add the missing parts to the elections site. The main part that's missing is a timeline app that will create time based stream of events and will email each user a unique, interesting timeline. I also need to design for scalability so I'm going to play with building a timeline server, probably based on EC2, that will be awoken by a croned Django command - starting him up wit a feed of pointers to fresh content. I want to base the server software on http://github.com/ericflo/django-couch-lifestream/tree and couchdb to store the feeds and email each user his view.

You are invited to help by coding, commenting, starting a discussion, doing some research and most important - inviting friends.

Benny.