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Fixed Austin TX!

Hello! The crawlers are not currently public, but I'm happy to take volunteers behind the curtain. I also fixed Cook County

Hi there! I've built the beginnings of this platform at https://civic.band and https://civic.observer . We track City Councils, Boards of Supervisors, really any municipality we ca…

I don't work with them right now but maybe this will help? https://oakland.ca.civic.band/-/search?q=flock

Hi! I've written crawlers for about a dozen municipal hosting platforms, and you can learn the bare-bones of it from our "How" page: https://civic.band/how.html I also gave a talk …

thanks! the next major hurdle is school boards; gotta get EBoard and BoardDocs to make that work

Where would you want more detail? I've been working on adding Canada to CivicBand: https://civic.band/sites/sites?_sort_desc=pages&state__in=BC... I also track Puerto Rico, but onl…

Granicus is six providers in a trench coat it turns out. IQM2, NovusAgenda, Legistar, Granicus, PriveGov, and CivicClerk are all Granicus projects that share absolutely 0 apis that…

I _think_ (but am not actually certain) we're monitoring more municipal agencies at CivicBand, but I know some of the folks at MuckRock and the work they're doing is absolutely cri…

The question would ultimately get settled in court, I think, but a DA who was feeling cop-aligned and vicious could try to ding you for interfering with police operations by _not_ …

Search context is legitimately hard, especially since this is unstructured text data that (ime building CivicBand) needs to be OCR'd not parsed for best results. You might be terri…

Thanks for asking! - The framework for crawling is open-source. https://github.com/civicband - There is absolutely not a standardized API for nearly any of this. I build generalize…

Fixed the 404s on civic.band, thanks

This is super important work, and is kind of why I built https://civic.band and https://civic.observer , which are generalized tools for monitoring civic govts. (You can search for…

It's time for Netflix' greedy acqs Taking value to the max So just sit back and relax and give us all your cash We're now a Netflix acq!

This is super cool and I love the idea of keeping the data and AI local.

I got very briefly excited that this might be a new application layer on top of meshtastic.

All the time I've worked in security I've seen that detection beats prevention because of this reality, nice to see some studies on it. (This is why we built https://crowdalert.com…

In the US, especially in CA, where so many readers of this site live and work, absolutely. All the policies and procedures are there to, ultimately, protect the company from wrongf…

Hi there! I'm someone currently doing this. I'm CTO at a small startup in Oakland, am married, have a 4-month-old, have a mortgage. CEO just turned 40, also has a mortgage, is marr…