The Popolo Project

The documentation website is managed in the gh-pages branch.

This project's goal is to author, through community consensus, international open government data specifications relating to the legislative branch of government, so that civil society can spend less time transforming data and more time applying it to the problems they face. A related goal is to make it easier for civic developers to create government transparency, monitoring and engagement websites, by developing reusable open source components that implement the specifications. Although the data specification is designed primarily for open government use cases, many other use cases are supported.

Read the specification at popoloproject.com

Participation

• Join the W3C Open Government Community Group and subscribe to its mailing list
• Discuss open issues and create pull requests in this GitHub repository
• Read Open North's blog post announcing the project for more context

Development

To run the documentation website locally:

git clone https://github.com/opennorth/popolo-spec.git
git co gh-pages
bundle
bundle exec jekyll serve -w

Bugs? Questions?

This project's main repository is on GitHub: http://github.com/opennorth/popolo-spec, where your contributions, forks, bug reports, feature requests, and feedback are greatly welcomed.