Projects

White House 2

This project started as White House 2, where we imagined how the White House could work if it was run completely democratically by thousands of people over the internet. It’s coded with Ruby on Rails 2.3.2, and released under the MIT License, the same as Ruby on Rails. This code is no longer ... [More] maintained, but there is an excellent fork called Open Active Democracy from @rbjarnason [Less]

How'd They Vote?

A resource for political accountability; a compilation of statistics and information on Canadian Members of Parliament, and possibly other levels of government. The project includes the website code, as well as the tools used to extract the information.

Citizen Intelligence Agency

A project with the goal to increase the surveillance of Swedish parliament members. This will be done by analyzing the votes of each member of parliament and create views related to the relations between them.

Parltrack

Parltrack is a European initiative to improve the transparency of legislative processes. It combines dossiers, MEPs, vote results and committee agendas into a unique database and allows the tracking of dossiers using email and RSS. Most of the data displayed is also available for further processing ... [More] in JSON format. Using Parltrack it's easy to see at a glance which dossiers are being handled by committees and MEPs. [Less]

Metascore

Metascore is the system which will run metagovernment.org and any number of other community governance systems. It is a versionated policy-generation and discussion system combined with a recursive scoring system for ranking content and perhaps users.

project-world

Project World is an engine and UI that is meant to help simulate aspects of life and society (mainly human) in ways that can take input from subjects (either human or computer) and in effect, create a simulated community with real-life avatars and facets. Applications could include economic simulations, and even gaming.

wankosphere

The Wankosphere is currently a lightweight headline-displaying web app. It's written in Ruby and riding on the Camping framework. It's kind of like BuzzFlash. I plan to migrate this over to Rails in the near future and to start expanding the feature set as need be.

campaignos

openpublica.org is proud to announce CampaignOS, a web service for managing political campaigns' records, events, financials, gov't compliance and reporting, built on the rubyonrails framework.

tobal

This is the Rails application source code for running thereoughtabealaw.org. It allows people to sign up for accounts, propose laws or bills, co-sponsor ones they like, leave comments, propose modifications and more. It is meant for organizations or politicians who want to get their constituents ... [More] more involved in the political process. I'm open sourcing it to encourage campaigns to run their own version of it and possibly contribute back to the project. [Less]

hansard

Hansard Prototype