Ecosyste.ms: Awesome
An open API service indexing awesome lists of open source software.
https://github.com/Betree/democracy-watcher
🗳️ Monitor your country, your city council or your organization promises and objectives
https://github.com/Betree/democracy-watcher
civic-tech democracy fact-checking gatsby promise-tracker react
Last synced: about 2 months ago
JSON representation
🗳️ Monitor your country, your city council or your organization promises and objectives
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/Betree/democracy-watcher
- Owner: Betree
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2016-03-16T23:18:46.000Z (over 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2021-07-28T04:48:35.000Z (about 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-07-27T03:32:20.300Z (about 2 months ago)
- Topics: civic-tech, democracy, fact-checking, gatsby, promise-tracker, react
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage: https://democracywatcher.netlify.com
- Size: 12.2 MB
- Stars: 13
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 3
- Open Issues: 44
-
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
Awesome Lists containing this project
README
Democracy Watcher
[](https://app.netlify.com/start/deploy?repository=https://github.com/Betree/democracy-watcher)
This project aims to provide a set of simple tools to monitor a democratic
entity. This entity can be a country, a city council or your organization.
It is a good fit for journalists wanting something easy to setup to track
the promises of their local governments,
and for citizen wanting to collaborate to track their locality actions.
It's **entirely static** and the best place to host it is [Netlify](http://netlify.com/):
- It's free
- Takes less than 1 minutes to have a running instance ready to be served
- Anyone can have access to the data and history of modifications
- It's easy to participate
You can get a preview of what it looks like on [this link](https://democracywatcher.netlify.com).
Current implementation supports English and French but translating it
in a new language should be really quick.
## ☑️ TODO
- [x] Support for multiple ruling entities
- [x] Promise tracker
- [x] Translations
* [x] English
* [x] French
- [ ] RSS / ATOM Feed
- [ ] Markdown text formatting for presentation
- [ ] Store pictures locally instead of providing an URL
- [ ] OpenGraph tags
## :newspaper: Promise tracker
List goals / promises with their description, their sources and their status. A
promise may be done, in progress, not yet started or broken.
You can also split the promises in categories (Culture, economy...etc)
which will be displayed as tabs and in subjects which will appears
between promises :
# :floppy_disk: Installation + Run
Clone this repository:
```bash
git clone [email protected]:Betree/democracy-watcher.git
```
Install dependencies:
```bash
npm install
```
Start dev server on [http://localhost:8000](http://localhost:8000):
```bash
npm start
```
# :wrench: Configuration
All configuration and data modifications (except for home page) are done in YAML files. YAML has a very simple syntax, don't
be afraid if you don't know it yet.
## Ruling entities
Create one file per entity like `data/ruling_entity_name.yaml`.
It has the following syntax:
```yaml
id: silly-party # A unique string used to identify the entity (used in url)
name: Silly Party # The name of the ruling entity
mandate_start: "2015-10-12" # Begining of the mandate, in the format "YYYY-MM-DD"
mandate_end: "2020-10-12"
# All fields below this line are optionnals
leader: Jethro Q. Walrustitty
description: The best government the world have ever seen
thumb: https://api.adorable.io/avatars/200/xxxxx.png
banner: https://api.adorable.io/avatars/300/xxxxx.png
```
### Promises
Promises are configured by adding a `promises` key to your newly created
`data/ruling_entity_name.yaml` file:
```yaml
(...)
promises:
# All promises must rest under a category (here Education and Economy)
- title: Create math classes for the chickens # Title of the promise
category: Education
status: DONE # Status - can be TODO, DONE, BROKEN or IN_PROGRESS
subject: What to do with the chickens # An optionnal subject to group multiple promises
description: # A description, use it to give details about the status or the source
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque in lacus ipsum.
In porttitor tristique diam ut sodales. Proin porta molestie blandit. Vestibulum a felis eget mauris bibendum
malesuada. Quisque porttitor lorem in euismod mollis. Fusce varius ut massa aliquet hendrerit. Ut scelerisque
risus consectetur quam dapibus sollicitudin. Suspendisse pellentesque eget arcu ut varius.
Morbi mollis sed nibh nec eleifend. Donec nec ultricies risus, sit amet hendrerit quam. Etiam non tortor
dapibus, semper nulla quis, placerat orci.
sources: # A list of sources confirming the promise or its status
- media: Le Monde
url: https://lemonde.fr/blablabla
title: We saved the chickens !
- title: Encourage internship for the chickens
category: Education
subject: What to do with the chickens
status: IN_PROGRESS
- title: Free books for the politicians
category: Politics
status: TODO
description:
Maecenas et laoreet sapien. Maecenas ornare maximus mauris, sed blandit mi tristique vel. Maecenas rhoncus vel
erat in venenatis. Praesent tincidunt dignissim facilisis. Quisque vestibulum viverra massa at commodo.
Quisque vehicula felis vitae finibus aliquam. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
- title: Make potatoes the new official currency
status: BROKEN
category: Economy
description: This project has been cancelled after experts said it could be dangerous.
sources:
- media: The Onion
url: https://lemonde.fr/blablabla
title: An awesome article
```