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mastodon 4.7.3CivicBand tracks over 800 municipalities across the United States and Canada, making their minutes and agendas searchable and queryable.
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Joined November 23, 2024
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Are you attending #PyConUS? CivicBand will be there, at the CivicTech Open Space (date/time tbd) and sprinting on the project Monday and Tuesday.
Currently writing the first-ever week-ahead look for CivicBand, a plan of what I'm hoping to ship.
Subscribers to our OpenCollective (https://opencollective.com/civicband) get this first, and get to steer what we work on week-over-week.
Marin County has posted no minutes for the Board of Supervisors meetings for this whole year.
Extremely weird.
Oh hey another one: #BeverlyHills has posted no #CityCouncil minutes for this year.
Curious
Continuing our deep dive, it looks like #Washington Township, #Indiana, stopped publishing City Council minutes? Anyone from around there want to investigate for us?
We're digging in to the sites that have fallen out of date, and apparently #BirminghamAL just stopped posting minutes in 2024? Not sure why? Anyone who lives there and wants to help us dig in, reach out!
I've realized that in order to solve some queue worker forking issues I'm having on #macOS, I need to move the civicband/clerk workers to a docker config.
If you want to follow along with that journey, DM for an invite to our Zulip instance.
Well, it finally happened. We got an IP block from one of the hosting providers holding the PDFs that powers us. Now we get to figure out what to do about it.
It would be easier if these sites published actual APIs with tokens and rate-limits, but that's part of what we're solving. #OpenData
We're back in the capitol with #CampaignFinance data for #Sacramento, going back to 2001:
In the airport on our way to exhibit at #SCALE23x! Come say hi at the expo hall this weekend.
We've added #CampaignFinance data to #Fairfield, going back to 2022:
We've added #CampaignFinance data to #MorroBay starting in 2024 and updated every other day😘
Back in the Bay, we've added #CampaignFinance data to #Millbrae starting in 2023 and updated every other day:
We've added #CampaignFinance data to #NewportBeach, going back to 2018, and updated every other day:
We've added #CampaignFinance data to #MorenoValley starting in 2024 and updated every other day: