ATX BandC

Austin, TX Boards and Commissions

Getting started

Prerequisites:

1. Be in a Virtualenv
2. Have ImageMagick installed. See make install in Makefile

Installing:

make install

How it works

This is a Django site, with models for Boards and Commissions, their meetings,
and the documents for each meeting. There’s a scraper that hits each of their
websites and:

• grabs all the documents. Then the PDF documents:
  • have their text extracted
  • a thumbnail generated
• the documents are put into an RSS feed

Deploying

I store images in the local filesystem for simplicity. To serve Django media in
production, you’ll need a rule like this in Nginx:

location /media {
  root /data/bandc;
}

Links

• https://atxhackforchange.org/
• https://www.austintexas.gov/department/boards-and-commissions-information-center