Database of Members of the European Parliament

You find a list of MEP candidates in various formats in the plone system http://plone.ffii.org/polit/mepcandidates

Purpose

let voters know whom they vote for
coordinate and support communication with MEPs
- supply the people calling MEPs for the Project MepV0405En with a data file which everything they need to call MEPs effectively
- integrate responses from the above call the MEP project(minicall) into the database for making good data exports(e.g. to html)

040513 letellier: updated SwpatfrFr with french mep candidates

project mailing list
meps database on ffii org
integrated into aktiv.ffii.org but partially broken
bkaindl working on integration of voting results (partially done, but not complete due to missing MEPs in the database)
- bkaindl will hopefully complete the MEPs in the database, not yet started, if somebody can do it, bkaindl has scripts.
mwas debugging and enhancing for aktiv.ffii.org
Zuständig für DE: Lion Hirth, mail: lion_hirth at yahoo de

obtain data of candidates
- this is mostly national activity, but with central organisation
- maybe MEP-toolbox can help: AEL:MEP-position-lobbying-guide
- help wanted for this part, mail to bh and bkaindl if you can help with this
update MEPS database on ffii org (under work by bkaindl, much to do, help liked, have scripts which parse europarl data but now I need help to get the data in the meps database into good shape or create new data tables with good data produced by the new scripts)
repair and improve !MyMEP application of aktiv.ffii.org (ask mwas if you would like to help)
link !MyMEP to correspoding wiki pages for each candidate and each group at national and EU level(also mwas)
create user-friendly guides to Europarl elections(need people which can do nice web pages with icons made by gimp for example)
- good example on how to present synthetic notation about MEPs