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[Andrew Ettinger <sillydeveloper@xxxxxxxxx>]

Second this. It looks like there's at least a start of a civicrm plugin to use sunlight labs:

http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2007/civicrm-integrating-sunlightlabs-api/

More info here:

http://civicrm.org/node/205

This code looks pretty old though (2007?). Any idea if that code still works in civicrm? 

Do we want to go the plugin route for drupal+civicrm (which in the process of installing / configuring)? Or build a standalone application? They aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, but I say we build a plugin first, since that's our current dev focus =)

It's GPL, we can fork it and send patches back too.

~ Andrew


On Dec 7, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Sam Hart wrote:

> I was just curious if anyone has thought of using the Sunlight APIs
> (http://sunlightlabs.com/) to build something to expose/track
> influence of anti-Net Neutrality players via lobbying groups and
> perhaps even into *actual* government officials campaigns?
> 
> I was thinking something along the lines of these two tools already
> available from Sunlight Foundation:
> * http://poligraft.com/
> * https://checking.influenceexplorer.com/
> 
> except geared more specifically to the OSDF's cause du jour.
> 
> For those who don't know about the Sunlight Foundation, they have a
> large collection of APIs which effectively let you access a large
> amount of open government data. The APIs are Open Source (under a
> variety of licenses, and with bindings in a variety of languages).
> 
> If there were interest in such a thing, I'd be willing to help out
> with it, though my time is rather limited at the moment and my
> web-development experience is more focused on back-end infrastructure-
> which basically means I'd need to work on it *with* someone else (who
> would be more comfortable crafting a front end to all this mess).
> Obviously, if there were interest, we'd have a lot of hashing out of
> details first before we could even begin...
> 
> So, thoughts? Comments? Crazy idea?
> 
>                                       ---Sam
> 
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