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Contributing Councillor Information

Closed Aug 16, 2021 100% complete

The Ask Your Councillors option is only available for about 50 authorities, because we don't have councillors, or current councillors, for them. Currently it's very hard for people to contribute information about who their local councillors are openaustralia/australian_local_councillors_popolo#98 (comment) . https://github.com/openaustralia/australian_loc…

The Ask Your Councillors option is only available for about 50 authorities, because we don't have councillors, or current councillors, for them. Currently it's very hard for people to contribute information about who their local councillors are openaustralia/australian_local_councillors_popolo#98 (comment) . https://github.com/openaustralia/australian_local_councillors_popolo is the data store and source of truth for information about Australian Local Councillors. Following our project principles, we thought it made most sense for people to be able to contribute information without leaving PlanningAlerts. These contributions would be approved and then sent to the data store. PlanningAlerts then pulls the data back from there and runs some other processes so people can start writing to their councillors.

This milestone is just for the component where people contribute the data.

Out of scope

  • we don't have to add a link to this form anywhere on the site yet, that will be another issue
  • the data does not have to get automatically sent to the data store https://github.com/openaustralia/australian_local_councillors_popolo . Admins do that manually for now.
  • we don't have to create a public contributions page yet where people can see there pending contribution. That can be another issue.
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