ancbrigade

A website about DC's Advisory Neighborhood Commission system.

Dependencies

Set up your environment for installing dependencies:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/codefordc/ancbrigade
virtualenv .env # maybe one day we'll use '-p python3' but dotcloud makes that harder
. .env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Note --recursive on 'git clone' to get the submodule dependencies.

If it seems like you're missing stuff, also try 'git submodule init; git submodule update".

Running the Site

Just run:

. .env/bin/activate
./manage.py runserver

Then view the site in your browser at the address shown to you.

Updating Static Data

The ANC/SMD metadata is stored statically in ancbrigadesite/static/ancs.json. To update this file from our Google Doc, our ScraperWiki scraper, and other external data sources, run:

python3 update_anc_database.py

You will need to provide your Google email & password and a Census API key, which you can get at http://www.census.gov/developers/tos/key_request.html. For convenience, you can also store these credentials in a file named "update_anc_database_creds.py" in this directory and put in it:

google_email="your.address@gmail.com"
google_password="your google password"
census_api_key="your Census API key"

You can also selectively update just some of the data (because updating some takes a long time) using command line arguments:

python3 update_anc_database.py [--base] [--terms] [--gis] [--neighborhoods] [--census]

And to fetch the latest ANC meetings calendar:

python3 update_meeting_database.py

Deployment

We're currently deploying to dotCloud.

sudo pip install dotcloud
dotcloud setup
dotcloud connect ancbrigade
dotcloud push # push changes to the live site