datamade/yournextmp-popit

Name: yournextmp-popit

Owner: datamade

Description: :ballot_box_with_check: An experimental front-end to PopIt for 2015 GE candidates

Created: 2015-05-01 21:37:52.0

Updated: 2016-01-14 15:14:30.0

Pushed: 2016-01-15 21:37:32.0

Homepage: http://yournextmp.mysociety.org

Size: 5096

Language: Python

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README

A PopIt frontend for sourcing candidate data

The idea of this project is to make a web-based front-end to PopIt for crowd-sourcing candidates for upcoming elections; it was used for YourNextMP in the UK for the 2015 General Election.

The PopIt project is now being deprecated, so we will be migrating this project (and existing sites) to use PostgreSQL as the primary data store. There is a GitHub issue for tracking this work

Since that migration is still work in progress, if you urgently need to create a YourNextRepresentative site, for the moment it's best to still use PopIt.

This is alpha software still, so please get in touch with us to let us know of your plans and hopefully we can provide support for your project.

Known Bugs

You can find a list of known issues to work on here:

• https://github.com/mysociety/yournextrepresentative/issues

These are prioritized in Waffle:

• https://waffle.io/mysociety/yournextrepresentative

What should I read next?

The following other documentation files may be of use to you, depending on what you're trying to do:

• A guide to setting up YourNextRepresentative for a new country This is a work-in-progress, describing what's involved in setting up YourNextRepresentative in a new country.
• Notes on setting up a dev version of YourNextMP with vagrant This was created to make it easy for developers and designers to get started working on YourNextMP (the UK site), and may be still be of some use.