This project aims to sse Manchester City Council Meeting's Minutes as a basis for highlighting the good work that Councillors do, and to find out further information on the activity of Councillors and the decision making process of our Council.

We will be using a Minute Scraper as a basis for a Meeting Attendee List and moving on from that towards a http://TheyWorkForYou.com like functionality but based on Manchester Council.

It's early days, but we had a hack day on Sat 29th November, 2008 and came up with a few basic scrapping scripts, and an idea of how it might move foward. On Saturday February 7th, 2009 we met up, and more progress was made. Everyone went away motivated to do more. On Saturday March 7th, 2009 we met up once again teaming up with the National Hack The Government Day on http://tyoc.co.uk for the details. The Next tyoc collaboration day will be held in held in on Saturday May 2nd, where it's hoped to make progress on this and other development streams.

Please get in touch (http://ianmoss.com/contact) if you'd like to help out, and we can add you to our mailing list.

If you can't make this one you are welcome to contribute online, and there will be further date annouced shortly after that that you maybe able to make.

This project is taking place under the banner The Year Of Collaboration. More information can be found out about this at http://alteris.blogspot.com or why not see what people have been tweet'ing about it: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23tyoc

Please use #tyoc to tag these events. The Year Of Collaboration will have it's own website ( at tyoc.co.uk )in due course.