Re: Motion and voting specifications

(Adding list back, with permission)

Thanks, Breyten! I’ve added “method” as a possible new property for VoteEvent in this issue: https://github.com/opennorth/popolo-spec/issues/57

I’m waiting for more feedback before adding the new properties to the spec. There’s been a good discussion on the Poplus list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/poplus/0wNKnWy810A

Cheers,

James

> 2014-05-19 12:06 GMT+02:00 Breyten Ernsting <breyten@openstate.eu>:
>> Hey,
>> 
>> This is excellent work! This is of course much more useful than using
>> it "just" for motions, it's good that's already accounted for.
>> 
>> I do think that it would be good to introduce a 'class' (or 'type')
>> attribute on the vote event that specifies the exact procedure being
>> used to vote -- it makes it a little easier to determine what actually
>> happened this way, than looking at the votes. And is also a bit more
>> flexible (Also, in the Dutch House sometimes votes are cast in writing
>> only etc.)
>> 
>> Breyten
>> 
>> 2014-05-07 6:32 GMT+02:00 James McKinney <james@opennorth.ca>:
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> Over the past months, several members of civil society organizations have
>>> collected use cases and requirements, researched existing specifications,
>>> and explored government datasets relating to legislative voting activity.
>>> Last week, people from 28 countries gathered in Santiago, Chile for
>>> PoplusCon, where a group of about a dozen people validated the use cases and
>>> agreed on several elements of a specification. This work has produced the
>>> first public working drafts linked below:
>>> 
>>> http://popoloproject.com/specs/motion.html
>>> http://popoloproject.com/specs/vote-event.html
>>> http://popoloproject.com/specs/count.html
>>> http://popoloproject.com/specs/vote.html
>>> 
>>> These specifications are still in early stages, so please send your feedback
>>> and questions.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> --
>>> James McKinney
>>> Open North
>>> +1.514.247.0223
>>> http://opennorth.ca/
>>> 
>>> 

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