Civic Software/OpenLegislation
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| Open Legislation (NY State Senate) | Software, including web and mobile apps, for giving citizens real-time access to the legislative process. See it in action. | Java / J2EE Web Application with Maven2 build environment, Lucene search engine implementation (both index generation and search controller and UI), Proprietary ASCII and XML data parsing from internal legislative data sources, XML and JSON view generation via XStream, JDO and JAXB library usage, Google App Engine customization / forking / tuning, Amazon Web Services AMI / EC2 and RDS tuning, HTML5 (web and mobile) user interface creation. | github | GPL/BSD hybrid license. It is open source, but they use an unusual kind of dual-licensing scheme; see the link for details. | This post is a great overview of what the software does, with examples. See developer notes here. Note that the web front end uses the OpenLeg collection API. |
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