Matthew Landauer's presentation at the <a href="http://rubyonrails.com.au/2008/2/5/sydney-february-2008-meetup">Rails Ocean Sydney's February Meetup</a>. Matthew is drumming together support to build a <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/">They Work For You</a> site for <a href="http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/index.htm">Australian hansard data</a>, and has set up <a href="http://openaustralia.org/">openaustralia.org</a> to get the ball rolling.

1. Building Open Australia
Matthew Landauer
matthew@openaustralia.org

2. About four years ago...

3. NotCon ‘04

4. Creating stress/excitement maps of
London

5. Dealing With The Top 10 Worst
Situations In Urban Exploration

6. Telling the time using a Marks & Spencer
prawn sandwich and a BBC micro

7. Unveiling of TheyWorkForYou
A new project from the people behind
FaxYourMP and PublicWhip

8. It had effect

9. It changed the behaviour of
MP’s

10. UK’s Channel 4 got involved

11. Elsewhere in the world

12. USA: opencongress.org

13. NZ: theyworkforyou.co.nz

14. Fast forward...

15. to late 2007

16. The plan

17. OpenAustralia.org

18. non-partisan

19. Modify existing UK
TheyWorkForYou to make it
“Australian”

20. That’s relatively easy

21. The challenge

23. <speech id=quot;uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14a.648.5quot;
speakerid=quot;uk.org.publicwhip/member/1950quot; speakername=quot;Paul Gogginsquot;
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www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm071114/debtext/
71114-0001.htm#07111427000847quot;>
<p pid=quot;a.648.5/1quot;>The strong message....</p>
<p pid=quot;a.648.5/2quot;>I believe that in recent days...
</speech>
<speech id=quot;uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14a.649.0quot;
speakerid=quot;uk.org.publicwhip/member/1818quot; speakername=quot;Owen Patersonquot;
colnum=quot;649quot; time=quot;11:30:00quot; url=quot;http://
www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm071114/debtext/
71114-0001.htm#07111427000848quot;>
<p pid=quot;a.649.0/1quot;>Does the Minister agree ...</p>
</speech>

24. Ruby / Mechanize / Hpricot

25. We’ve got a very crude
prototype

27. Please come join the effort!

28. Have an impact

29. There is so much to do

30. Email me
matthew@openaustralia.org
or go to openaustralia.org
for more information

31. Questions