A journey through open data to contact members of European Parliament.

1. #TweetYourMEP
How we did this
And how we are, hopefully, changing democracy

2. Who we are
Alfredo Serafini
Freelance consultant, linked data geek
Certified lazy guy
@seralf
seralf@gmail.com

3. Who we are
Paolo Mainardi
Drupal ninja, open source addicted
Twinbit CTO & founder
@paolomainardi
paolo@twinbit.it

4. Who we are
Alessio Biancalana
Tinkerer, open source evangelist
Co-founder at Hopen
@dottorblaster
alessio@hopen.it

5. Hi, I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby)

6. Scraping MEPs from this page? Why not?

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8. Veni
Vidi
Vici ;)
Developers: we followed a divide et impera approach.
And you thought latin was useless!

9. Live demo moment
You should go to
apps.spaghettiopendata.org/tweetyourmep
And send a tweet to a MEP. You can ask for help
if you need.

10. This is a typical closed data fan

11. I SE
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12. Development
Embeddable widget
&
One-click campaigns

13. The toolbox is open!
Join us
and hack the democracy
Interesting tip: “Git” was one of the most 2012 used terms used by me in slides.
So i repeat that: use Git and send us patches and feedbacks.

14. Dati crudi ora! :D