#TweetYourMEP: how we did this

My presentation for the Spaghetti Open Data meetup, talkin' about TweetYourMEP and how a community of civic hackers can grow to fit development purposes using only the challenge element.

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1. #TweetYourMEP #TweetYourMEP How we did this How we did this And how we are, hopefully, changing democracy
2. Who we are Who we are Alfredo Serafini Freelance consultant, linked data geek Certified lazy guy @seralf seralf@gmail.com
3. Who we are Who we are Paolo Mainardi Drupal ninja, open source addicted Twinbit CTO & founder @paolomainardi paolo@twinbit.it
4. Who we are Who we are Alessio Biancalana Tinkerer, open source evangelist Co-founder at Hopen @dottorblaster alessio@hopen.it
5. Hi, I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby)
6. Scraping MEPs from this page? Why not?
7. Challenge! Challenge!
8. Veni Veni Vidi Vidi Vici ;) Vici ;) Developers: we followed a divide et impera approach. And you thought latin was useless!
9. Live demo moment Live demo moment You should go to apps.spaghettiopendata.org/tweetyourmep And send a tweet to a MEP. You can ask for help if you need.
10. This is a typical closed data fan
11. Make NOISE Make NOISE
12. Development Development Embeddable widget & One-click campaigns
13. The toolbox is open! The toolbox is open! Join us Join us and hack the democracy and hack the democracy Interesting tip: “Git” was one of the most 2012 used terms used by me in slides. So i repeat that: use Git and send us patches and feedbacks.
14. Dati crudi ora! :D