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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>*Josh – freelance, Citizen <br />
*Action Kit<br />
*Engaging Networks – the worst<br />
*Emily – student at Hack Right, before an intern at Causes.com<br />
*John- Multi-technology collective, Incorporated Cicero into CiviCRM<br />
*Also Salsa, Convio, Blue State Digital<br />
*John – CiviCRM<br />
*Josh- Action Kit and Salesforce, BSD in the past<br />
*Sylvan – Pete Library<br />
*Lilia – Causes.com, EFF (especially Action Center), Salsa, <br />
*Ryan – Facilitator - Soap Box Engage, CiviCRM, Salesforce<br />
*Bill – EFF, stopped with Salsa -> CiviCRM and own in-house infrastructure<br />
*Amp<br />
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==Bill==<br />
*A lot of the challenging work has been how to get in contact with representatives (don’t provide email address) – worked with Contact Congress on Get Hub – use the recipes on how to fill out each and every field<br />
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*Key areas of discussion<br />
*What systems people use<br />
*Ouches<br />
*Opportunities for collaboration<br />
*Common data model?<br />
*What innovation is needed<br />
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==History of how online advocacy has evolved==<br />
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*2003-4 – a lot of promise about what we could do as a community<br />
*Early days of “Democracy in Action” – was a nonprofit, now Salsa – private<br />
*CiviCRM had just started<br />
*Came from very grassroots level<br />
*A lot of talk of collaboration<br />
*Saw organizations and companies become more insular and weren’t communicating, these tools and sets weren’t an ecosystem, just sold to the same people<br />
*Now seeing a lot of innovation happening<br />
*But don’t see them represented here – those businesses aren’t sharing knowledge and being a part of that, such an opportunity for collaboration<br />
*Need to come back to where we were in 2003 to work together<br />
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*Existence of Civic Space – part of the Dean campaign – fork of Drupal got folded back into Drupal<br />
*Open source advocacy tool that you could download and install<br />
*Software as services<br />
*Subscription, access it and you don’t control the data<br />
*My Society- in the UK, theyworkforyou.org – send letters to their members of parliament and if enough people signed on, letter was public so it was public shame if the member hadn’t responded. Became a big deal in the UK<br />
*Integration Proclamation – a bunch of people signing on saying the tools should integrate – developers do this<br />
*Might be a place to find people passionate about<br />
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==Development of EFF System==<br />
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*Salsa didn’t work for a number of reasons:<br />
*Tickets for a year out that hadn’t been fixed<br />
*Supporters of EFF – mixed content errors – would access an EFF action, wouldn’t fully load on certain browers, Salsa slow to fix<br />
*Lousy system, not a good experience<br />
*Plus couldn’t handle a major load when they had a big action<br />
*Are very proud of open access to data and controlling our own data vs. a third-party platform that didn’t meet our needs<br />
*As a nonprofit with a large techie support group, saw opportunity to build our own platform<br />
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==Challenges:==<br />
*Contacting reps – some efforts to create an API, but not much headway -> Let’s take Congress and wrap it in an API – project = Congress Forms (API part of it)<br />
*Sunlight Foundation – Contact Congress on GitHub is the datasource<br />
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*Worked with Recourse Action network to pull data from Salsa<br />
*Aren’t any open source tools for contacting Congress…<br />
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*Communicating with Congress working group- out of beta stage – Congress on the house side has paid Lockheed Martin to build out a black box<br />
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*Once it’s there -> Staffers need to actually be able to interpret the data, what does this mean?<br />
*Form analytics and PDFs – so activists can <br />
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*Vote pledging – has a direct impact – I’ll vote for you or not<br />
*Think would be illegal for a 501c3 – can’t endorse certain candidates<br />
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*Have a privacy policy – build tools that don’t personally identify people<br />
*How many people looked at this action? How many people took action?<br />
*Signed petition, contacte this rep<br />
*Print this to PDF<br />
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*Action Center works like a blog:<br />
*Post content -> Creates web page<br />
*Can attach tools to that webpage<br />
*Form that people can fill out like: Contact congress (look up your rep and fills out the form automatically, streamlines that process, even subject line drop-downs) – Sunlight recently added state congress<br />
*Petitions<br />
*Call tool (put in your phone #, it calls you back with the quick script and then connects you to the office)- powered by Twilio<br />
*Tweet Action – sunlight <br />
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*Use CiviCRM for email services – data from the Action center cycles into their CiviCRM to get on the email blasts<br />
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*Thunder Clap<br />
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*Would like to have a vagrant system for the action center<br />
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*Big problem with current congress is bad delivery rate – almost 60%<br />
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*Timeline: A lot of the efforts are going into the next election cycle, labor intensive process to map out all the forms of Congress – could do it using huge volunteer base, satisfying task to help with – had 2K commits in the two days<br />
*Worked on the trust model – will make you a repo admin<br />
*Scale up that model – <br />
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*Google Civic API – top 100 metros in the US<br />
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*Sierra – interested in crowdsourcing getting local school board member data<br />
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*League of Women Voters –worked on data munching, all the people up for election into a centralized data store<br />
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==How address look-up works:==<br />
*Smartistreets – using external – user puts in their address -> get GPS, figure out who their rep is – have deal with Smarty that won’t log<br />
*Free for nonprofits<br />
*Tried to do with Open Street Maps, but had issues getting the data there, Nominatum, did it for a while<br />
*Jon – said they did it too, but a lot of regular addresses just didn’t come up<br />
*Google look-up – secondary<br />
*Warning on Smarti – Salesforce Foundation – made an integration as the default way for address cleansing – some orgs being rejected on the types of issues they supported – Foundation had to walk back and not endorse Smarti<br />
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*Credo Action contributes to Congress forms<br />
*NGP VAN – contributes to that too</div>Vivian