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Updated Mar 4, 2010 by zbigniew...@gmail.com

Introduction

Since the project is very much in the early days of its life, there's a lot of work and we could use any support.

If you're familiar with any of:

  • Django
  • Database architecture
  • HTML/CSS theming
  • Django
  • Theory of politics
  • Sociology, Law, Journalism
  • Did I say django?

we could use your help.

Here are examples of a simple tasks that could greatly benefit the whole system:

  • promisecheck.views.charts.py requires a major refactoring and cleanup. It's pretty much isolated, so it may be a good start for anyone
  • openpolitics.models needs to be reviewed by people familiar with theory of democracy
  • all templates could use help
  • openpolitics.feedreader needs a standardized plugin model for all readers and clean API for writing them.
  • openpolitics.views.structure_png and promisecheck.views.charts should be cached
  • openpolitics.browser should switch to some more powerful search engine. Consider one of django search engines or Google/Bing API
  • openpolitics.api should get much more powerful API, so any work there will be great
  • openpolitics.models is a powerful structure, but not the fastest ones. We should implement simple state cache models (together with CacheManager?) to speed up common queries
  • openpolitics.api exports now in JSON, more format outputs would be welcomed
  • openpolitics.feedreader could get more readers. In Poland we'll have to get more out of sejm/senat websites and prezydent.pl plus kprm.gov.pl.
  • promisecheck has no API for its models, we could use some.
Comment by s.pas...@gmail.com, Mar 7, 2010

Are you sure you've pushed latest version? There isn't openpolitics.views.structure_png but openpolitics.browser.views.structure_graph.

Comment by kow...@gmail.com, May 1, 2010

hi, is there a reason not to use some of the existing charting library? It seems either matplotlib or cairoplot could be used instead. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/52652/pretty-graphs-and-charts-in-python

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