Open Disclosure is a project of OpenOakland. The website provides transparent, non-partisan campaign contribution and expenditure data in an accessible and easy to understand format. We hope this site will engage the voting public and raise awareness and accountability. Ultimately, this is one step toward shifting politics into a movement of civic engagement and ultimate citizen action.
To participate in this project, we ask you to abide by the OpenOakland Code of Conduct.
There are two ways to run the website locally for development: using Docker, and running everything locally.
Ensure you have the backend cloned as a sibling to this repo. Find more details below in Finance disclosures.
Note: If you are switching from the "local" build to the "docker" build you need to:
$ rm -rf .jekyll-metadata
$ make docker
Open your web browser to http://localhost:4000/.
$ nvm install && nvm use # To get on the right node version
$ make setup # To install all dependencies
Ensure you have the backend cloned as a sibling to this repo. Find more details below in Finance disclosures.
$ make pull-finance
$ make serve
Open your web browser to http://localhost:4000/.
You can build the site without running a server, if needed
$ make build
You can run the tests locally too
$ make test
The process of downloading, converting, and calculating the reported financial disclosures is handled by disclosure-backend-static. To get the finance data into this project, we use gulp.js to copy the files over and do some light transformations on their file paths.
If you have thoughts on how this could be improved, let us know!
In order to get the latest finance data, first clone
disclosure-backend-static as a sibling to this project's
directory. It is important that the disclosure-backend-static project is
cloned to the correct path (../disclosure-backend-static) which is hardcoded
in the gulpfile (pull requests welcome).
Then you can run the pull-finance task.
$ make pull-finance
Now rebuild your site with the finance data.
$ make serve
This site is deployed by a scheduled CI task twice daily. It clones the disclosure-backend-static repo and pulls in the finance data before doing a build. Merges to the master branch will also trigger a deploy.
The site is hosted on GitHub Pages. The deploy
consists of a force push of the _site directory to the gh-pages branch done
by _bin/deploy.sh.
Content for this website is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Code is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License.
www.opendisclosure.io California’s online source for local campaign finance data
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