Adding Sacramento city and populating people.py

[feydan]

I'm building off of work from a previous member at Code4Sac. I want to get some data in for Sacramento so that we can power a local Councilmatic application.

Previously tried this PR on python-legistar-scraper. @fgregg pointed me to this repo. See the PR for more details: opencivicdata/python-legistar-scraper#71.

[feydan]

Bumping this - can I get this reviewed and merged? @fgregg ? Anyone else?

[feydan]

Bumping this again. I'd love to get this merged.

[fgregg]

Looks great. Sorry for the delay

[feydan]

@fgregg how often do the scrapers run? Can I expect to see Sacramento added here: https://ocd.datamade.us/jurisdictions/ ?

[fgregg]

Hi Dan, Nope. We can't take on the maintenance of running scrapers that we don't have a contract for. Sorry. Best, Forest

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[feydan]

Fun! Well I plan to continuing powering through and figure out how to host Councilmatic ourselves.

I'm finding it a bit difficult to navigate the documentation and understand the architecture. Here are some things I'm tracking currently -- maybe you can clarify and point me to additional documentation.

• https://github.com/opencivicdata/imago - Open civic data api that powers Councilmatic. Is it possible to use the scrapers to push to your hosted version of this? Or do we have to host our own version of the api to power Councilmatic?
• This current scrapers project - used for scraping the legistar site (in our case) and pushing to the OCD API. Again, can we configure this to push to your API, or only our own, self-hosted one?
• https://github.com/datamade/councilmatic-starter-template - This is the front-end for the Councilmatic that displays information by pulling from the OCD API.

[reginafcompton]

Hi @feydan! Glad to see you're powering through. I'll quickly answer your questions:

• you have to host an API with Sacramento data: take a look at how DataMade hosts ocd.datamade.us.
• see above
• that's right! once you populate an API with Sacramento data, then you'll be able to import it to a Councilmatic instance using the import_data management command.

Hope that helps – and good luck.