Slide 1Slide 2Slide 3Slide 4Slide 5Slide 6Slide 7Slide 8Slide 9Direct CongressDan SkorupskiDan Vingo3 December 2008Overview of featuresRetrieve and store legislation from the United States CongressDisplay legislation based on various filter (popularity, if it has been voted on, etc)User accounts that permit certain features to be used, like voting and posting in forumsForum to post discussions about legislationUser profiles that display info about each userRetrieval of legislationLegislation is retrieved from the United States Congress and stored within our database.Retrieval is performed separately from the web app to easily allow the source of the data to be changed (as the source of the legislation is out of our control)Display of legislationBy default all legislation is displayed in a list formatUsers have the option to filter legislation based on the following criteria:In alphabetical order of the titleThe most recently updated legislation firstThe popularity of the legislationBased on whether the user has voted on the legislation (user must be logged in)User AccountsAnyone can create a user accountThere are no data integrity checks (whether this person actually lives at the address they say etc)No end user agreementSame person can create multiple accountsNo automated account creation checksUser ProfilesAfter registering user logs in and can view their profileProfile contains:Your 'karma' pointsLegislation you recently commented on (most recent 6)Legislation you recently voted on (most recent 6)Gives the option to update your profileVoting on LegislationClick on title of legislation to get detailed viewIf the user is logged in they can vote on the legislationUser can log in from the legislation page and be redirected backCommenting on LegislationA very simple forum is provided to chat with othersAfter you post other users can vote your comment up or downAdmin has ability to modify all dataWish listData integrity checksAllow one person to have one account.Mobile web version of front endPrettier user interfaceMore filters for legislationEx: View legislation that has already been passed in CongressSearch legislation (available elsewhere, integrate with other sites)More sophisticated
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