Elections To Do (Week of 1/6/2013)

[emilme]

As a follow up to conversation about Open Elections project (Development Seed looking to champion an effort to create a central online repository for global elections data). Next few weeks we will have to figure out the strategy and messaging of the Open Elections project. Pipeline includes data from Afghanistan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Tunisia.

Possible Strategies

1. Deliver data and do it quickly - hope the right groups come and find us (if you build it, they will come)
   • Pros: easiest
   • Cons: may not find the right groups
   • ID local partner
   • Pros: Legitimacy of having in-country partners
   • Cons: May not be a suitable partner; NGOs can be sketchy, and hard to find the partner when we are not there (leads are Elieen, Andy, Wazhma)
   • Local & international users help crowd source/assist the development of their stuff
   • Pros: Big impact
   • Cons: Time

Action Items

• [ ] Connect with DI/Lebanon partners on elections data
• [ ] Check out https://github.com/openelections - do we want to partner with these guys?

[emilme]

For the 11:30 am (6 Jan 2014) talk with Rad, @smit1678, @ianschuler, @emilme, here are a few points to discuss:

• [ ] Bring Rad up to speed on goals & current components & possible strategies
• [ ] What are the needs that "Github.elections" would address?
• [ ] Discuss options for Github.elections format
• [ ] Identify next steps and assign tasks for upcoming week/2 weeks

[timwis]

Just wanted to be the first "if you build it they will come" sample :) https://www.opendataphilly.org/dataset/prior-year-election-results Also FYI there's a democracy hackathon in Philly in a couple weeks. Happy to connect you to the organizers if you think it would be helpful.

[drewbo]

Thanks @timwis, this is a really cool data set. I'm seeing an error when trying to view the metadata, any advice?