4. “ I believe that people with an engineering point of view as a basic foundation are in a pretty good position to jump in and solve some of these problems... Those people are not attracted to the political process. And why would someone be?” Why the disparity?
10. What can we do? 2) Software to give people information 1) Software to get people involved
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13. How can we build this? Scrape the data But it's 2008 It's really not that hard... sometimes
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15. How can we build this? Make it social Make it accessible Web 2.0: “make the users do the hard stuff” Even trivial interaction prompts further interaction Just Make It Just make it look better than an excel sheet Django (or Rails) will let you get it up fast Open Source it (take “make the users do the hard stuff” to a new level) and/or throw up a simple API