Tu tenias mucha razón y otros grandes exitos
Team Members
- aitorgarcia
- Maxkuri
- salicio
- molpe
What
Here are some of the main key points about parlio.org:
⊱ All the information has been extracted from Basque Country Parliament official site.
⊱ A great effort has been made scraping the data from the original source given there is no API, RSS o structured way to access data (by the way this is one of the main reasons to implement parlio.org)
⊱ This efforts has been made using legebiltzarra an OS library that has been greatly improved thanks to this Rumble project and will release a new version soon.
⊱ parlio.org will be freely donated to Pro Bono Publico an association that promote the use of open source, standards and data in the Spanish goverment.
⊱ We understand that a non english application could be difficult to evaluate for some judges but we wanted to build something really useful for the people and 48 hours are 48 hours.
You can browse a google translated version through this link:
Parlio english version
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=es&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parlio.org&sl=es&tl=en&history_state0=
Where
- Entry URL:
http://parlio.r09.railsrumble.com- Info / Screencast URL:
- http://www.parlio.org/about
How
rails 2.3.3
legebiltzarra
annotatedtimeline-for-rails
jrails
seo_urls
info from http://www.parlamento.euskadi.net
Comments
Thank you so much Ben!
We’re really happy with your comment and your evaluation of our project. We knew parlio was going to be hard to evaluate for people outside Spain and really appreciate the extra mile you did trying to understand our intentions.
We’ll keep parlio.org online after the rumble so we hope everybody will be able to see our improvements starting next week.
Thanks again!
First off, a disclaimer: I don’t speak Spanish (or Basque), so I had to evaluate the app through the lens of Google Translate. That said, I think you’ve done a very nice job of getting political data out into the open. Transparency is a movement that I’ve worked with a little here in the States, and I’m excited to see it growing around the world. Now, on to the analysis!
I like the design; you’ve left enough whitespace to keep the large amounts of information nicely separated and readable. My only reservation is the frequency of paragraph-long links – I know they’re easier to click on, but they’re harder to read in my experience. I’d prefer to see a small icon to imply that there’s a link and have the actual text be more legible.
It certainly seems like you’ve pulled in a large amount of information – I think this is where the language (and cultural) barrier is most harmful to my evaluation, though, as I’m unsure what might be missing.
Transparency isn’t a new movement, but you’re one of the first I’ve seen pursuing it outside of the US (no offense to others who might be doing that… I just haven’t seen it)
These sort of applications have limited audiences by design (in this case, citizens in the Basque region), but for those people I think they’re future of government.
Great job!