About the challenge

Our primary challenge is to develop programs that download minutes and agenda packets from city councils and school boards in Contra Costa County, California (although generalized solutions will be useful in other parts of the US and potentially internationally. Once we have gathered the documents for a particular jurisdiction we plan to feed them into Google's Notebook LM which analyzes the documents and allows user to query them using a chat interface.

Get started

Please refer to these repos for previous efforts to solve this problem:

https://github.com/govwiki/civic-scraper

https://github.com/govwiki/civic-scraper-v2

https://github.com/govwiki/misc_scraping_code

We have a list of Contra Costa County governments at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSMYdG6nuHu31c5mmfs5SmAcI2VzfjSFe71EGkcfkd2LqOLWvswTk5I9e5_BJvZ2Y_M6iRK69s9CbbU/pubhtml

We have an example of a NotebookLM Notebook at https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/23c7f258-3e3e-4548-8e0d-213c28013bfe .

To see it you'll need a GMail address and should send an access request to mdjoffe@gmail.com.

Also, please see the orientation slides I will be showing at the start of in-person development on March 1st: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15wPZuIvHUkEZOijhDRKc4QPIsDAiWYJPAJtYj3cxB5o/edit?usp=sharing

 

Requirements

Code Submission

If we form multiple teams, we'll ask a technical lead from each team to post any tools developed during the hackathon to a public repository on Github.

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Prizes

1 non-cash prize
Our Deepest Appreciation
1 winner

If you create the beginnings of an exciting solution, we can continue working on it.

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Judges

Marc Joffe

Marc Joffe
CoCoTax

Judging Criteria

  • Participation
    This is an informal hackathon and we don't plan to have judging.

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