koding.com/HackathonWe are building a platform for allowing people to share their opinion with their Congressional Representatives, and to enable us to compare a district's consensus with the voting record of their representative.
We have two excellent Ruby coders and a top notch deployment engineer, all of whom have systems administration experience. If we win enough prize money, we would like to make this thing ready to scale and roll it out well before the 2016 elections. We would also like to allow public funding of bills to make them easier to get past finance committees, but dealing with such in the US, especially when politics is involved, is an expensive business to get started in due to a complex legal landscape, so that will have to wait for now.
Anyway, if that sounds like a mission you want to be a part of, and you have skills in HTML/CSS or Marketing please get in touch.
For the design, we will mostly need CSS, as we will use classes to tag out html for layout. Familiarity with AJAX is a plus.
For Marketing, social presence is a considered in the judgement, so you would basically find interesting ways to talk about the commits we are making public and the discussions on our email thread on various social media sites (particularly twitter and facebook).
This competition started today, so there are 24 hours left. If we earn sufficient prize money, we will continue to work on the project at reasonable rates. If not, we will divide to prize money equally between team members.