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#TweetYourMEP #TweetYourMEP How we did this How we did this And how we are, hopefully, changing democracy

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Who we are Who we are Alfredo Serafini Freelance consultant, linked data geek Certified lazy guy @seralf [email protected]

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Who we are Who we are Paolo Mainardi Drupal ninja, open source addicted Twinbit CTO & founder @paolomainardi [email protected]

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Who we are Who we are Alessio Biancalana Tinkerer, open source evangelist Co-founder at Hopen @dottorblaster [email protected]

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Hi, I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby)

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Scraping MEPs from this page? Why not?

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Challenge! Challenge!

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Veni Veni Vidi Vidi Vici ;) Vici ;) Developers: we followed a divide et impera approach. And you thought latin was useless!

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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.

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This is a typical closed data fan

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Make NOISE Make NOISE

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Development Development Embeddable widget & One-click campaigns

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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.

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Dati crudi ora! :D