Driving a stake into the ground to start thinking through this project. Possible phases:
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A feed combiner that can merge Dayton-relevant search results from existing crowdfunding sites like indiegogo, kickstarter, etc.
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An attractive, human-viewable version of the combined feed
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An interface for admins to manually curate the feed, if automated search is too dirty
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An independently-hosted instance of a FOSS crowdfunding package
scraping.ipynb
contains some preliminary tests of technique. It's
an IPython Notebook. Install IPython Notebook (possibly by means of
Anaconda Python) and run
ipython notebook scraping.ipynb