Chris Torgalson and Colin Calnan from Raised Eyebrow Studios will be presenting at this months Drupal meetup on building election tools within Drupal.
With the BC Election just around the corner, there will be a need for election related web tools. One of most popular requests Raised Eyebrow receive relate to creating action tools; you know, the ones where you email your MP about a certain issue!
They have created a few tools in Drupal that do just that and will walk you through their uses. They have also integrated an MP lookup service and have an exciting election Candidate tool to announce.
Along with the Drupal tools they will introduce some other tools that could help with campaigns and outreach.
Lightning Talks
Attendees are invited to share their experience by giving a 2 to 4 minute presentation on any topic of interest to the Drupal community. If you want to use a laptop to show a website or control panel please be sure you have the necessary cable (vga) to connect to an overhead projector.
Date: January 24, 2013 - 6:30pm
Location: The Network Hub, 3rd Floor, 422 Richards Street, Vancouver, BC
Cost: There is no charge and all are welcome.
For those who don't need to leave right away there's typically a more social discussion at a local pub afterward.
RSVP: Please RSVP here http://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Drupal-Users-Group/events/80097112/
Sponsors
This meetup is sponsored by The Jibe, a Vancouver Drupal eCommerce web design agency.
Comments
Notes on the presentation
Thanks to all for coming out last night. It did indeed veer off topic at the end but hopefully everyone say the connection between Twilio and Drupal. I'd like to include some links related to the items discussed in the presentation:
Represent API - The representative lookup for Canadians. - http://represent.opennorth.ca/
Sunlight Labs Congress API - The US representative lookup - http://services.sunlightlabs.com/docs/Sunlight_Congress_API/
Citizens Connected Drupal module sandbox - http://drupal.org/sandbox/sebsebseb123/1632620
Twilio - http://twilio.com
Connecting Twilio to Google spreadsheets using Google Apps Script - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0wjM1Ds3lc
Drupal and Twilio/Tropo integration
I've also fixed the Drupal Tropo/Twilio integration module that I was trying to demo.
Simply visit http://apps.raisedeyebrow.com/drupal/callmymp, enter your phone number and postal code and your phone will ring to tell you who your MP is and try to connect you. Please try it out.