USCVprogs goes live. Coders, websurfers, spreadsheet jockeys needed.

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With much help from DUers danostuporstar and dqueue, I am happy to announce that we've finally lined up all the ducks and now have a fully functional opensource project running over at sourceforge.net.

What is it?

It's code for getting election results and other election related info out of BOE web documents and into spreadsheets and databases. Mainly it is a side-project of Kathy Dopp's USCountVotes initiative, but the software will be available to individual "electionographers" and also to BOE staff should they find a use for it.

Where is it?

Here: http://uscvprogs.sourceforge.net/

What's there already?

Pretty complete parsers for two ES&S formats and one Diebold format, which anyone with a bit of Perl skill can easily adapt to their needs, as well as a bunch of tiny one-shot scripts used for various data collection tasks done this year, and a growing taxonomy of online election data formats.

What's next?

Now all we need is a bunch more coders. I'll be contacting DUers who answered the first call a few weeks ago over the next few days, and we will be starting to publicise this through normal OpenSource news channels tomorrow to draw in talent from the hacker (the good connotation of the word) community.

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1. Kick (originally posted kinda late) n/t