vincib/memopol2

[mirror] The Political Memory of la Quadrature du Net, both a campaign tool and a tool to inform citizens about the way the representatives votes

Introduction

The Political Memory is a tool build by la Quadrature du Net. It follow several objectives: being a campaign tool, being able to display how well the elected representatives have followed the voting recommendations of la Quadrature du Net, increase the political cost of the decisions of elected representatives, gather official positions taken by elected representatives and, the most important one, inform citizens.

This is the second version of the tool.

Links

• code (and there is also a mirror on github)
• official la Quadrature du Net's instance
• Bug tracker
• dev blog
• mailing list

We also have an irc channel: irc.freenode.net#lqdn-memopol (english speaking but if you only know french we can deal with that) where you will be very welcome

How to contribute

Like in any free software project:

• clone it
• install it
• code
• optional: talk to us about it on irc or on the mailing list
• send a pull request either on gitorious or github
• hit us with a stick if we don't react (shouldn't happen)
• we merge your code, everyone is happy
• party hard
• start again

You can see the list of our awesome contributors in CREDITS.txt (if someone is missing just tell me).

Installation

Debian and debian-based

Install the base python virtualenv tools (on Ubuntu you have to enable universe):

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libfreetype6-dev libpng12-dev python-pip libatlas-base-dev g++ mercurial git libtidy-dev
sudo pip install virtualenv

Archlinux

Install the following to have the tools on Archlinux (please note that you may have to adapt the following install procedure):

pacman -S python2 libxml2 libxslt freetype2 python-lxml python2-pip python2-virtualenv libpng mercurial git

Fedora

Install the following to have the tools on Fedora (please note that you may have to adapt the following install procedure):

yum install python-setuptools python-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel freetype freetype-devel libpng libpng-devel python-lxml python-pip atlas-devel g++ mercurial git

pip-python install virtualenv

Installing python dependencies

We are using a virtualenv (there is everything needed to use buildout also if you want to).

Create one:

virtualenv --no-site-packages --distribute ve

Active it:

source ve/bin/activate

(If you want to leave it just type "deactivate")

Install memopol2's dependencies (yes you need to build numpy alone first):

pip install numpy==1.5.1
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the "migration" scripts

Warning: this might take a LOTS of time, around 15min.

cd memopol2
./INIT

Do not try to run migrate by hand or you will have a bug due to fixtures loading and will end up with no eurodeputies fixtures.

Run the server

cd memopol2
python manage.py runserver

Your application is available on http://localhost:8000/

Small lexicon

We try not to use it too much but you'll eventually end up on it so here is a reference.

• "mep" == member of the European Parliament
• "mp" == member of the Parliament, here it's deputies of the French national assemble

Licence

The Political is licenced under aGPLv3+. The original idea is from gibus.