Current Projects
Much contribution to our software is via our strong volunteer community. Below are some of our current active projects. For more information or if you are interested in contributing your time and effort, please join our developer mailing list or contact silona@leagueoftechvoters.org.
Entity-based Social Network
A social network that is based on "entities" rather than individuals. A node in the network might be an individual, a business, or some other organization. In the LoTV context, the social network will facilitate communication and collaboration in our target community and our hierarchical entity-based representation within the social network allows non-profit and advocacy groups to participate as visible, named entities.
Connect-the-Dots ("CtD") legislation browsing tool
CtD is a visual user interface that is used to easily browse the connections between pending legislation, sponsoring legislators, budgetary contributions, earmarks, and so forth. CtD is designed to clearly and intelligently display any information about the meaning of these connections. This meaning will be assigned by the community, using our tools which are designed from the ground up for this purpose.
Consensus wiki ("C-wiki")
C-wiki is a wiki with an integrated tools to enable defined groups to build a consensus on its contents. This tool is useful for drafting formal white papers that reflect the combined opinion of a group of authors. In the LoTV context, this is an important format to influence legislators.
Event Calendar
The LoTV Event Calendar is an hCalendar compliant event calendar to facilitate event planning and other means of collaboration among users of the LoTV community. This calendar should accept hCalendar RSS feeds as a form of automated input and/or output. Ideally, visitors should also be able to subscribe to receive an email digest of the day's posts in the categories of their choice.
