Open13 is a project to collect information on provincial legislatures in Canada, including legislators, bills, votes, committees, events and speeches. This data is made available through a website and its API.
Follow the instructions in the Python Quick Start Guide to install Homebrew, Git, MongoDB, Python, virtualenv, GDAL and PostGIS on OS X. On Ubuntu, run:
sudo apt-get install git virtualenvwrapper python-lxml mongodb-10gen
On Ubuntu, if your shell is bash, it should automatically load virtualenvwrapper through /etc/bash_completion.d/virtualenvwrapper.
Fork the main Git repository on GitHub and install the project:
mkvirtualenv open13
git clone https://github.com/YOURUSERNAME/open13.git
cd open13
pip install -r requirements.txt
You're now ready to work on Open13!
Run billy-update -h to read the documentation. For now, we don't use billy-util for anything.
For now, see the OpenStates documentation.
We would like to express our gratitude to James Turk, Paul Tagliamonte and Thom Neale of Sunlight Labs's OpenStates team for helping Open North start this project in Canada.
This project's main repository is on GitHub: http://github.com/opennorth/open13, where your contributions, forks, bug reports, feature requests, and feedback are greatly welcomed.
Copyright (c) 2012 Open North Inc., released under the MIT license