Citizen Intelligence Agency

A project with the goal to increase the surveillance of Swedish parliament(The Riksdag) members. This will be done by analyzing the votes of each member of parliament and create views related to the relations between them. Citizen Intelligence Agency is independent and non-partisan voluntary project. It puts the public on first and only place. It is not paid by the EU, supported by any government grant nor by any lobby.

• Live portal (alpha version demo) http://www.riksdagsmonitor.com
• Looking for economic support to keep servers online and continued development!
• Support This Project

News and updates

• Follow the blog at Sourceforge WordPress.

Funding

Funding for the project is provided by www.hack23.com, Pether Sörling's soon to be personal company based in the Sweden. www.hack23.com will sell consulting services related to Citizen Intelligence Agency, java open source technologies and amazon cloud computing(ec2).

Resources

• Project homepage Sourceforge.
• Ohloh Project Summary Ohloh.
• Principia Discordia Read the book!
• Download latest development version GNU tarball(cia.tar.gz).

Project Documentation

• Development Roadmap Trac instance.
• Source Code Cross-reference Java source code.
• Source Code Monitor FishEye Provided by Atlassian
• Javadoc & UML Generated javadoc with UML diagrams.
• Spring Beans Graph Spring beans report .
• Project Dependency Graph Graph Image.
• Entity Model Hibernate Mapping Documentation.
• Test Result Surefire test report.
• Quality Assurance Result Xradar Total Quality Report.

Guide to helping with Citizen Intelligence Agency

As with any open source project, there are several ways you can help:

• Join the Open Discussion forum and participate in discussions.
• Report bugs, feature requests and other issues in the issue tracking application.
• Build the application using the Developer guide for yourself, in order to learn or make improvements and submit patches.

  Requirement for above is an account at Sourceforge.net , Create account

  Plenty of more code examples of for example importers at Direct Democracy Portal

  Recommended runtime environment is Ubuntu and Debian AMIs for Amazon EC2 , public ami on the way.

  Your participation in the community is much appreciated!

How do I Join the Project?

This project operate under a meritocracy, meaning those that the developers notice participating to a high extent will be invited to join the project as a committer.