CDP Tools contains the tools and functions required to setup and run Council Data Project instances as well as generate city sites. For detailed documentation please refer our individual docs.
To set up a CDP instance, you will need to provide a config file with at least the following attributes:
/home/server_config.json:
{
"legistar_city": "...",
"storage_directory": "...",
"collection_script": "...",
"firebase_config": "..."
}To then start the server you would simply:
$ pip install git+https://github.com/CouncilDataProject/cdp.git
$ start_cdp_instance /home/server_config.jsonThe only thing we ask for you to install is Docker.
All other requirements are packaged and handled by our server setup scripts.
Council Data Project was created by Jackson Maxfield Brown and Dr. Nicholas Weber with the goal of creating tools that would be usable by as many city councils as possible. It is our believe that in providing access to city council information in a unified system, journalist research and citizen engagement regarding local and regional political action would become more readily available and accessible.