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I can pass this along to some folks who might be able to help.
Nicole L (via Slack) was nice enough to contact a few active users of the current Lobby Tracker and ask if they'd be willing to talk to us. I've reached out to two of them already, hoping to schedule chats in the next ~2 weeks so that I can pick their brains about the existing Lobby Tracker. If you'd like to join those conversations, please let me know – I'd love the company!
Nicole also identified a few more people that I have not contacted yet. If anyone would be interested in meeting with these people and gathering notes and product ideas, I think that could be really useful.
Some brief notes from the meeting that @goldenmeanie and I had with John Marion:
$10000
, $3k/month
, $1,200 per quarter
, etc etc).Notes from the meeting with Ted Nesi:
In general: don't need to throw everything out, but it needs to be more intuitive.
https://apps.sos.ri.gov/lobbytracker/profiles
https://apps.sos.ri.gov/lobbytracker/profiles/subjects
https://apps.sos.ri.gov/lobbytracker/profiles/view/642
http://sos.ri.gov/divisions/open-government/Transparency/open-government-interactive
RI Campaign Finance http://www.ricampaignfinance.com/RIPublic/HomePage.aspx
We're not entirely sure what we're building yet, other than a basic app to view lobbying data. We need other people to help shape our intuitions – people who have more experience working with lobbying data than we do.
We should talk to people who already look at lobbying data, and ask them:
Types of people to talk to include:
Anyone have any leads here? I know some people at Common Cause who might have good thoughts about this.