Building Open AustraliaMatthew Landauer

matthew@openaustralia.org

About four years ago...

NotCon ‘04

Creating stress/excitement maps of London

Dealing With The Top 10 Worst Situations In Urban Exploration

Telling the time using a Marks & Spencer prawn sandwich and a BBC micro

Unveiling of TheyWorkForYou

A new project from the people behind FaxYourMP and PublicWhip

It had effect

It changed the behaviour of MP’s

UK’s Channel 4 got involved

Elsewhere in the world

USA: opencongress.org

NZ: theyworkforyou.co.nz

Fast forward...

to late 2007

The plan

OpenAustralia.org

non-partisan

Modify existing UK TheyWorkForYou to make it

“Australian”

That’s relatively easy

The challenge

<speech id="uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14a.648.5" speakerid="uk.org.publicwhip/member/1950" speakername="Paul Goggins" colnum="648" time="11:30:00" url="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm071114/debtext/71114-0001.htm#07111427000847"> <p pid="a.648.5/1">The strong message....</p> <p pid="a.648.5/2">I believe that in recent days...</speech>

<speech id="uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14a.649.0" speakerid="uk.org.publicwhip/member/1818" speakername="Owen Paterson" colnum="649" time="11:30:00" url="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm071114/debtext/71114-0001.htm#07111427000848"> <p pid="a.649.0/1">Does the Minister agree ...</p></speech>

Ruby / Mechanize / Hpricot

We’ve got a very crude prototype

Please come join the effort!

Have an impact

There is so much to do

Email me matthew@openaustralia.orgor go to openaustralia.org

for more information

Questions