pimail - Mail/Faxwidget for the EP

Find a random MEP and write a mail or a fax in your browser.

Installation

pimail depends on:

• Python 2
• web.py
• Jinja2
• flup
• GeoIP

install with pip install -r requirements.txt

Edit the mail.tmpl and files in static/ to your liking

Edit settings.py (look at settings.py.tmpl for an example file)

Fill data.json with an array of data about the MEPs (or MPs or whatever)

and start with: python pimail.py

this will run a webserver on port 8080

Contribution

Contributions are always welcome! What you can do

• Test it and give us Feedback (use the github issues)
• Refine the Design - look at the static/ directory and the templates
• Fiddle with the code. Look at the issues and implement missing features.

embed

you can easily use our widget on your own website. Just copy&paste this html embed code.

Mail: <object data="https://faxjh.savetheinternet.eu/sti/mail/" width="630" height="390" ></object>

Fax: <object data="https://faxjh.savetheinternet.eu/sti/fax/" width="630" height="390" ></object>

Fax: (only polish S&D MEPs) <object data="https://faxjh.savetheinternet.eu/sti/fax/?group=sd&country=pl" width="630" height="390" ></object>

Fax: (only specific MEP) <object data="https://faxjh.savetheinternet.eu/sti/fax/?id=124990" width="630" height="390" ></object>

Twitter: <object data="https://faxjh.savetheinternet.eu/sti/tweet/" width="630" height="390" ></object>

How can I translate this tool

• you make yourself a github.com account
• go to https://github.com/netzfreiheit/Contact-Your-MEP
• click “fork” (you create your own working copy)
• navigate to "static/templates/"
• create a folder with your language short code (e.g. de,en,fr,pl)
• copy the all the files in the "en" folder into this new folder
• translate all english texts into your language
• click “commit changes”
• click “pull requests”
• click “Click to create a pull request for this comparison” (that's to let us know about your changes to the website)
• you are done and you are great! you helped strg+s the internet <3

UPDATE: please always work on up-to-date versions of your forked repository. if you forked your repository some time back then better delete it and fork again (or use comand line to update).