[Chicago] [chihacknight] Re: Introducing the all new Chicago Councilmatic!

[Randy Baxley]

I think the sharing is important and the openness of many software and
hardware groups as well as the Chicago CDO is fantastic and I have hopes
that someone else will share this with other council offices as well as
blue1647 and PS:1

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Sasha Neri <nerisash at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fantastic! Shared.
>
> On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 12:37:11 PM UTC-6, Derek Eder wrote:
>>
>> DataMade is proud to introduce the new Chicago Councilmatic
>> <http://chicago.councilmatic.org/>! Brand new interface and features,
>> same great legislative taste!
>>
>>
>> In case you don't remember, Chicago Councilmatic tracks all things
>> related to Chicago City Council:
>>
>>    -
>>
>>    the legislation <http://chicago.councilmatic.org/search/> introduced
>>    and passed
>>    -
>>
>>    its various committees <http://chicago.councilmatic.org/committees/>
>>    and the meetings <http://chicago.councilmatic.org/events/> they hold
>>    -
>>
>>    and the aldermen <http://chicago.councilmatic.org/council-members/>
>>    themselves
>>
>>
>> Since launching the original website in June 2013 under Open City
>> <http://opencityapps.org/>, Chicago Councilmatic has consistently been
>> one of our most popular projects. That City Council is always up to
>> something, and before Councilmatic existed, getting information about it
>> was pretty hard.
>>
>> Along the way, we’ve learned quite a lot about Chicago City Council, and
>> have turned that into new features:
>>
>>
>>    -
>>
>>    Who’s my Alderman, anyway? Many Chicagoans don’t know what Ward
>>    they’re in, let alone who their Alderman is. This simple information is
>>    essential if you want to engage with City Council, so we made it really
>>    easy to find out <http://chicago.councilmatic.org/council-members/>,
>>    either by searching your address or browsing a neato interactive map.
>>
>>
>>
>>    -
>>
>>    Committees are the key In Chicago, controversial ordinances are
>>    rarely voted down on the Council floor. Instead, they are held to languish
>>    in committee and die a slow, quiet death. You can now see exactly what that
>>    Finance committee has been up to, and see the graveyard of legislation
>>    <http://chicago.councilmatic.org/search/?selected_facets=inferred_status_exact%3AStale&selected_facets=controlling_body_exact:Committee%20on%20Finance>
>>    that never saw the light of day.
>>
>>
>>
>>    -
>>
>>    Public meetings Knowing when City Council meets is important. Knowing
>>    when the Zoning Committee is voting on your ordinance is even more
>>    important. You can now see every past and upcoming committee and City
>>    Council meeting <http://chicago.councilmatic.org/events/>, and the
>>    stated agenda for each.
>>
>>
>>
>>    -
>>
>>    Timeliness City Council meets a about once a month, and when they do,
>>    it's a flurry of activity. With the new Councilmatic, we cranked up the
>>    updates and refresh our data every day instead of once a week.
>>
>>    -
>>
>>    Fast access on any device Councilmatic now has a brand-new and
>>    lightning-fast interface, and it looks so amazing on your smartphone.
>>
>>
>> What should we add next?
>>
>> DataMade <http://datamade.us/> is committed to maintaining and improving
>> the new Chicago Councilmatic. There’s still a lot more we plan to do with
>> it, including email alerts, visualizing flows of legislation and measuring
>> Aldermanic performance.
>>
>> To get updates as we add them, join our email list
>> <http://eepurl.com/bNxm8D>. If you have any suggestions on features we
>> should add, let us know by emailing info at datamade.us or filing a new GitHub
>> issue <https://github.com/datamade/chi-councilmatic/issues>.
>>
>> Today Chicago, tomorrow the world!
>>
>> The new Councilmatic is part of a partnership with the Participatory
>> Politics Foundation <http://www.participatorypolitics.org/> with support
>> from the Sunlight Foundation <http://sunlightfoundation.com/>. We’ve
>> designed Councilmatic to be easily re-deployable in new cities, by building
>> it on top of the Open Civic Data
>> <http://opencivicdata.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api/> standard. We’ve
>> already brought it to New York City <http://nyc.councilmatic.org/>, and
>> are actively spreading it to other cities
>> <http://www.participatorypolitics.org/announcing-councilmatic-and-nyc-councilmatic/>!
>> If you're interested in bringing Councilmatic to your city, sent us an
>> email at info at councilmatic.org!
>>
>> Until then, go forth and help us keep an eye on what our elected
>> officials are up to!
>>
>> --
>> Derek Eder
>> Founder and Partner
>> DataMade
>> (312) 725-0195
>> datamade.us
>> @DataMadeCo <https://twitter.com/datamadeco>
>>
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