weekly mtg summary

[Aaron Swartz]

Kragen: Details in his repo on github. Able to parse a lot of data and
fixed bugs. Will try to have import working tomorrow. Aaron interested
in hacking on merge.

Jeff: Didn't get to anything this week. Will try to work on lobbyist
contributions.

Devi: Restoring user tables. Removed sessions. Got 84% of senators but
may refactor write-your-rep strategy to be more robust. Aaron to
promote petitions.

Rebecca: Ordering biz cards. Worked on store. Started page on design
origins. May deemphasize blog.

Aaron: Went to meeting in Portland. Collaboration with OpenSecrets and
FollowTheMoney seems close. May get to do audit of .gov sites (look
for broken links, bad configs, etc.). Looking to integrate with
SourceWatch for wiki features.

Will try using coopapp.com this week. Let me know if you want an invite.

[Devi]

> Looking to integrate with SourceWatch for wiki features.

Can you explain a little more? Are you talking of http://www.sourcewatch.org?

[Aaron Swartz]

>> Looking to integrate with SourceWatch for wiki features.
>
> Can you explain a little more? Are you talking of http://www.sourcewatch.org?

Yes. My thinking is that for each page we'll hit SourceWatch for a
page of that name and see if they have any content. (They have page
for every congressional candidate and a number of major orgs right
now.) If they do, we'll include an excerpt and link people there to
edit it.

[Aaron Swartz]

This way we can have wiki-editable content without having to do the
work of managing the wiki.

[webchick]

Devi - I took a look at the wyr form - I think I have the error
messages working better:

http://webchick.watchdog.net/writerep/

I may need help with the zip-code placement - I am not sure where that
is in the code.

[Devi]

> http://webchick.watchdog.net/writerep/

That looks neat, and if the fields are shorter that may still look
better. But the fields at http://webchick.watchdog.net/c/new are going
out of field set.

> I may need help with the zip-code placement - I am not sure where that
> is in the code.

The templates are writerep.html, petitionform.html.