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Announcing CiviVoter And Canvasser
by Rob Thorne
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Hello CivCRM users and developers!
I'd like to announce a developer's release of CiviVoter and Canvassers, two tools for managing voter files and contacts with voters during political (and similar) campaigns. The work was sponsored by the Green Party Of Canada, which has generously agreed to release it to the general CiviCRM community. I've just posted a demo site at http://cvdemo.torenware.com, and will post source files (a custom version of CiviCRM 1.6, and a Drupal module) on that site shortly. Here's a bit more info: * CiviVoter is a new sub-system for CiviCRM. Its purpose is to manage a voter file for you (the kind you get from the your county registrar of voters, or your national elections authority). Since CiviCRM is a rich and rapidly improving system for managing contacts, a lot of what you'd want to do with a voter file is already a part of CiviCRM. CiviVoter adds tools for running phone banks (for calling voters) or foot canvasses (going door to door and meeting voters face to face). * Canvasser is a Drupal module for running phone banks and foot canvasses. It uses CiviVoter to manage the voter file, but uses Drupal modules like Events, CCK or Location to help manage volunteers, and to add additional UI. * We'd like to get some feedback on our "first generation" interface and work flow, and we've created some test accounts to help you do that. We've set up an imaginary political campaign for the Canadian House Of Commons (the Green Party of Canada sponsored this work, so why not?), and we've imported 100 "voter records". I've set up two demo accounts, Organizer (pw: demo) and Volunteer (pw: demo) so you can see what the site looks like from different points of view. I'll also be happy to give out accounts with admin access, so you can see the admin interface as well. Have at it! Thanks, Rob Thorne Torenware Networks ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: civicrm-dev@... To be removed from the list, send any message to: civicrm-dev-unsubscribe@... For all list information and functions, see: http://lists.civicrm.org/lists/info/civicrm-dev |
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Re: Announcing CiviVoter And Canvasser
by Donald Lobo
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great job and congratulations Rob :)
hats off and a BIG THANK YOU to the the Green Party of Canada for releasing the code under very generous terms (that allows us to include / modify / integrate the code into our svn) We hope that quite a few other folks will test and use this component. We plan on integrating a future version of this component into the main CiviCRM code base. Please direct any/all feedback and reviews to Rob and the dev list lobo On 3/23/07, Rob Thorne <rob@...> wrote: > Hello CivCRM users and developers! > > I'd like to announce a developer's release of CiviVoter and Canvassers, > two tools for managing voter files and contacts with voters during > political (and similar) campaigns. The work was sponsored by the > Green Party Of Canada, which has generously agreed to release it to the > general CiviCRM community. > > I've just posted a demo site at http://cvdemo.torenware.com, and will > post source files (a custom version of CiviCRM 1.6, and a Drupal module) > on that site shortly. Here's a bit more info: > > * CiviVoter is a new sub-system for CiviCRM. Its purpose is to > manage a voter file for you (the kind you get from the your county > registrar of voters, or your national elections authority). Since > CiviCRM is a rich and rapidly improving system for managing > contacts, a lot of what you'd want to do with a voter file is > already a part of CiviCRM. CiviVoter adds tools for running phone > banks (for calling voters) or foot canvasses (going door to door > and meeting voters face to face). > * Canvasser is a Drupal module for running phone banks and foot > canvasses. It uses CiviVoter to manage the voter file, but uses > Drupal modules like Events, CCK or Location to help manage > volunteers, and to add additional UI. > * We'd like to get some feedback on our "first generation" interface > and work flow, and we've created some test accounts to help you do > that. We've set up an imaginary political campaign for the > Canadian House Of Commons (the Green Party of Canada sponsored > this work, so why not?), and we've imported 100 "voter records". > > I've set up two demo accounts, Organizer (pw: demo) and Volunteer (pw: > demo) so you can see what the site looks like from different points of > view. I'll also be happy to give out accounts with admin access, so you > can see the admin interface as well. > > Have at it! > > Thanks, > Rob Thorne > Torenware Networks > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > civicrm-dev@... > To be removed from the list, send any message to: > civicrm-dev-unsubscribe@... > > For all list information and functions, see: > http://lists.civicrm.org/lists/info/civicrm-dev > -- lobo http://civicrm.org/blog/ http://civicrm.org/ http://lobostravel.blogspot.com/ ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: civicrm-dev@... To be removed from the list, send any message to: civicrm-dev-unsubscribe@... For all list information and functions, see: http://lists.civicrm.org/lists/info/civicrm-dev |
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Re: Announcing CiviVoter And Canvasser
by Kieran Lal
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Hi, I am evaluating CiviVoter for a customer use case.
Is this the latest version of CiviVoter ? http://cvdemo.torenware.com/downloads/civicrm-1.6-r8285-voter-alpha-3-drupal-php5.tar.gz Is there a username:password for the demo site, or is it unnecessary? I couldn't see how to create a canvasser node. The customer use case is they would like to show information about their own elected officials in the website for each user. So, once the Drupal user was a CiviCRM contact we would want to update that contact record with their local political representatives information. Then we could extract that information using CiviNode and display it accordingly through out the site. Cheers, Kieran On 3/22/07, Rob Thorne <rob@...> wrote: Hello CivCRM users and developers! -- To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: civicrm-dev@... To be removed from the list, send any message to: civicrm-dev-unsubscribe@... For all list information and functions, see: http://lists.civicrm.org/lists/info/civicrm-dev |
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Re: Announcing CiviVoter And Canvasser
by Kieran Lal
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On 7/3/07, Kieran Lal <kieran@...> wrote: Hi, I am evaluating CiviVoter for a customer use case. Looks like I was barking up the wrong tree. For people interested in the use case: http://sunlightlabs.com/api/ Cheers, Kieran Cheers, -- To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: civicrm-dev@... To be removed from the list, send any message to: civicrm-dev-unsubscribe@... For all list information and functions, see: http://lists.civicrm.org/lists/info/civicrm-dev |
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Re: Announcing CiviVoter And Canvasser
by Rob Thorne
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Kieran,
The SunLight Labs work is really interesting, and I'm inclined to use it as well for this sort of application. I *have* developed something like this for use with CiviVoter for Canadian Federal Ridings, but cannot release it, since it's based upon data the Canadian elections agency sells to political parties. The code puts up a block where you enter your Canadian postal code, and it redirects you to a page for your federal riding. The Green Party of Canada is using this code in production. If you know someone who has access to the file, the code itself can be released under GPL. CiviVoter is pretty narrowly focused on a single problem: helping people working with a voter file for a reaching people efficiently in that file. It has good support for linking volunteers up with voters for calling in phone banks, and for getting walk lists for foot canvasses. Most of the handling of the voter file is on the CiviCRM side, and most of the volunteer handling code is implemented using the Drupal module. Newer versions of CiviVoter and Canvasser, though, do have a feature that could be extended for use with your SunLight Labs Congressional lookup. I wrote a module for the Green Party of Canada called Phone Lookup, which calls a commercial REST service called API411, which is a product of the WhitePages.com people. The federal Canadian voter file does not have phone numbers, so to do phone banking, either you have to merge in your own numbers, or you need to look them up on the fly. Using Phone Lookup, when a volunteer needs somebody to call, I walk the voter list (a CiviCRM group pulled from the voter file) and generate web service queries until I find a voter with a valid phone number. Both hits on the service and misses are cached. Between the relative efficiency of the on-line database and the local cache, this is pretty fast, and not noticeable to the volunteer waiting for the web page to render. I'm about to release Phone Lookup -- the full API411 spec is under NDA, and up until two weeks ago, the WhitePages.com people did not want the code released. They've since changed their mind, and have given their blessing to release of Phone Lookup under GPL. Some of this code would work nicely for your use case as well, since you only need to query the SLL service once per zip code. I already have code that handles the caching, and that can "automagically" fill in a Congressional District ID field for any record you pull up -- it would first check the cache, and if the zip code did not have a known CD, do the lookup. This is transparent, and very fast. Rob Kieran Lal wrote: > > The customer use case is they would like to show information about > their own elected officials in the website for each user. So, > once the Drupal user was a CiviCRM contact we would want to update > that contact record with their local political representatives > information. Then we could extract that information using > CiviNode and display it accordingly through out the site. > > > Looks like I was barking up the wrong tree. > > For people interested in the use case: http://sunlightlabs.com/api/ > > Cheers, > Kieran > > > > Cheers, > Kieran > > > On 3/22/07, *Rob Thorne* <rob@... > <mailto:rob@...>> wrote: > > Hello CivCRM users and developers! > > I'd like to announce a developer's release of CiviVoter and > Canvassers, > two tools for managing voter files and contacts with voters during > political (and similar) campaigns. The work was sponsored > by the > Green Party Of Canada, which has generously agreed to release > it to the > general CiviCRM community. > > I've just posted a demo site at > http://cvdemo.torenware.com, and will > post source files (a custom version of CiviCRM 1.6, and a > Drupal module) > on that site shortly. Here's a bit more info: > > * CiviVoter is a new sub-system for CiviCRM. Its purpose > is to > manage a voter file for you (the kind you get from the > your county > registrar of voters, or your national elections > authority). Since > CiviCRM is a rich and rapidly improving system for managing > contacts, a lot of what you'd want to do with a voter > file is > already a part of CiviCRM. CiviVoter adds tools for > running phone > banks (for calling voters) or foot canvasses (going door > to door > and meeting voters face to face). > * Canvasser is a Drupal module for running phone banks and > foot > canvasses. It uses CiviVoter to manage the voter file, > but uses > Drupal modules like Events, CCK or Location to help manage > volunteers, and to add additional UI. > * We'd like to get some feedback on our "first generation" > interface > and work flow, and we've created some test accounts to > help you do > that. We've set up an imaginary political campaign for the > Canadian House Of Commons (the Green Party of Canada > sponsored > this work, so why not?), and we've imported 100 "voter > records". > > I've set up two demo accounts, Organizer (pw: demo) and > Volunteer (pw: > demo) so you can see what the site looks like from different > points of > view. I'll also be happy to give out accounts with admin > access, so you > can see the admin interface as well. > > Have at it! > > Thanks, > Rob Thorne > Torenware Networks > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > civicrm-dev@... > <mailto:civicrm-dev@...> > To be removed from the list, send any message to: > civicrm-dev-unsubscribe@... > <mailto:civicrm-dev-unsubscribe@...> > > For all list information and functions, see: > http://lists.civicrm.org/lists/info/civicrm-dev > > > > > -- > To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. > > > > > -- > To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: civicrm-dev@... To be removed from the list, send any message to: civicrm-dev-unsubscribe@... For all list information and functions, see: http://lists.civicrm.org/lists/info/civicrm-dev |
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Re: Announcing CiviVoter And Canvasser
by Donald Lobo
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kieran's email inspired me to sit and hack out a fairly quick
integration with the sunlight API :) A preliminary version of the integration is now in trunk :) You can read more details about it at: http://civicrm.org/node/205 and how you can potentially jump in and help build the rest :) lobo On 7/3/07, Rob Thorne <rob@...> wrote: > Kieran, > > The SunLight Labs work is really interesting, and I'm inclined to use it > as well for this sort of application. I *have* developed something like > this for use with CiviVoter for Canadian Federal Ridings, but cannot > release it, since it's based upon data the Canadian elections agency > sells to political parties. The code puts up a block where you enter > your Canadian postal code, and it redirects you to a page for your > federal riding. The Green Party of Canada is using this code in > production. If you know someone who has access to the file, the code > itself can be released under GPL. > > CiviVoter is pretty narrowly focused on a single problem: helping people > working with a voter file for a reaching people efficiently in that > file. It has good support for linking volunteers up with voters for > calling in phone banks, and for getting walk lists for foot canvasses. > Most of the handling of the voter file is on the CiviCRM side, and most > of the volunteer handling code is implemented using the Drupal module. > > Newer versions of CiviVoter and Canvasser, though, do have a feature > that could be extended for use with your SunLight Labs Congressional > lookup. I wrote a module for the Green Party of Canada called Phone > Lookup, which calls a commercial REST service called API411, which is a > product of the WhitePages.com people. The federal Canadian voter file > does not have phone numbers, so to do phone banking, either you have to > merge in your own numbers, or you need to look them up on the fly. > Using Phone Lookup, when a volunteer needs somebody to call, I walk the > voter list (a CiviCRM group pulled from the voter file) and generate web > service queries until I find a voter with a valid phone number. Both > hits on the service and misses are cached. Between the relative > efficiency of the on-line database and the local cache, this is pretty > fast, and not noticeable to the volunteer waiting for the web page to > render. > > I'm about to release Phone Lookup -- the full API411 spec is under NDA, > and up until two weeks ago, the WhitePages.com people did not want the > code released. They've since changed their mind, and have given their > blessing to release of Phone Lookup under GPL. > > Some of this code would work nicely for your use case as well, since you > only need to query the SLL service once per zip code. I already have > code that handles the caching, and that can "automagically" fill in a > Congressional District ID field for any record you pull up -- it would > first check the cache, and if the zip code did not have a known CD, do > the lookup. This is transparent, and very fast. > > > Rob > > Kieran Lal wrote: > > > > The customer use case is they would like to show information about > > their own elected officials in the website for each user. So, > > once the Drupal user was a CiviCRM contact we would want to update > > that contact record with their local political representatives > > information. Then we could extract that information using > > CiviNode and display it accordingly through out the site. > > > > > > Looks like I was barking up the wrong tree. > > > > For people interested in the use case: http://sunlightlabs.com/api/ > > > > Cheers, > > Kieran > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > Kieran > > > > > > On 3/22/07, *Rob Thorne* <rob@... > > <mailto:rob@...>> wrote: > > > > Hello CivCRM users and developers! > > > > I'd like to announce a developer's release of CiviVoter and > > Canvassers, > > two tools for managing voter files and contacts with voters during > > political (and similar) campaigns. The work was sponsored > > by the > > Green Party Of Canada, which has generously agreed to release > > it to the > > general CiviCRM community. > > > > I've just posted a demo site at > > http://cvdemo.torenware.com, and will > > post source files (a custom version of CiviCRM 1.6, and a > > Drupal module) > > on that site shortly. Here's a bit more info: > > > > * CiviVoter is a new sub-system for CiviCRM. Its purpose > > is to > > manage a voter file for you (the kind you get from the > > your county > > registrar of voters, or your national elections > > authority). Since > > CiviCRM is a rich and rapidly improving system for managing > > contacts, a lot of what you'd want to do with a voter > > file is > > already a part of CiviCRM. CiviVoter adds tools for > > running phone > > banks (for calling voters) or foot canvasses (going door > > to door > > and meeting voters face to face). > > * Canvasser is a Drupal module for running phone banks and > > foot > > canvasses. It uses CiviVoter to manage the voter file, > > but uses > > Drupal modules like Events, CCK or Location to help manage > > volunteers, and to add additional UI. > > * We'd like to get some feedback on our "first generation" > > interface > > and work flow, and we've created some test accounts to > > help you do > > that. We've set up an imaginary political campaign for the > > Canadian House Of Commons (the Green Party of Canada > > sponsored > > this work, so why not?), and we've imported 100 "voter > > records". > > > > I've set up two demo accounts, Organizer (pw: demo) and > > Volunteer (pw: > > demo) so you can see what the site looks like from different > > points of > > view. I'll also be happy to give out accounts with admin > > access, so you > > can see the admin interface as well. > > > > Have at it! > > > > Thanks, > > Rob Thorne > > Torenware Networks > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > > civicrm-dev@... > > <mailto:civicrm-dev@...> > > To be removed from the list, send any message to: > > civicrm-dev-unsubscribe@... > > <mailto:civicrm-dev-unsubscribe@...> > > > > For all list information and functions, see: > > http://lists.civicrm.org/lists/info/civicrm-dev > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. > > ____________________________________________________________ > You received this message as a subscriber on the list: > civicrm-dev@... > To be removed from the list, send any message to: > civicrm-dev-unsubscribe@... > > For all list information and functions, see: > http://lists.civicrm.org/lists/info/civicrm-dev > -- lobo http://civicrm.org/blog/ http://civicrm.org/ http://lobostravel.blogspot.com/ ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: civicrm-dev@... 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Re: Announcing CiviVoter And Canvasser
by Kieran Lal
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On 7/4/07, Donald Lobo <donald.lobo@...> wrote: kieran's email inspired me to sit and hack out a fairly quick Lobo this is fantastic and it's a key part of why so many NPO's an advocacy organizations pay top dollar. CivicSpace Labs is actively doing client work on the SunLight APIs if anyone else has use cases or would like to see further development, let me know and we will make sure Drupal modules are GPL'd and made available for everyone. Cheers, Kieran lobo -- To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: civicrm-dev@... To be removed from the list, send any message to: civicrm-dev-unsubscribe@... For all list information and functions, see: http://lists.civicrm.org/lists/info/civicrm-dev |
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