Modeling thermoelectric properties of TI materials: a Landauer approach
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Building Open AustraliaMatthew Landauer
About four years ago...
NotCon ‘04
Creating stress/excitement maps of London
Dealing With The Top 10 Worst Situations In Urban Exploration
Telling the time using a Marks & Spencer prawn sandwich and a BBC micro
Unveiling of TheyWorkForYou
A new project from the people behind FaxYourMP and PublicWhip
It had effect
It changed the behaviour of MP’s
UK’s Channel 4 got involved
Elsewhere in the world
USA: opencongress.org
NZ: theyworkforyou.co.nz
Fast forward...
to late 2007
The plan
OpenAustralia.org
non-partisan
Modify existing UK TheyWorkForYou to make it
“Australian”
That’s relatively easy
The challenge
<speech id="uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14a.648.5" speakerid="uk.org.publicwhip/member/1950" speakername="Paul Goggins" colnum="648" time="11:30:00" url="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm071114/debtext/71114-0001.htm#07111427000847"> <p pid="a.648.5/1">The strong message....</p> <p pid="a.648.5/2">I believe that in recent days...</speech>
<speech id="uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2007-11-14a.649.0" speakerid="uk.org.publicwhip/member/1818" speakername="Owen Paterson" colnum="649" time="11:30:00" url="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm071114/debtext/71114-0001.htm#07111427000848"> <p pid="a.649.0/1">Does the Minister agree ...</p></speech>
Ruby / Mechanize / Hpricot
We’ve got a very crude prototype
Please come join the effort!
Have an impact
There is so much to do
Email me [email protected] go to openaustralia.org
for more information
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