By mishtern on

I'm a college student looking to make public information site to profile municipal and state level politicians in colorado. Federal politicians have their own websites to set their positions on important issues and those can be followed up on factcheck.org or wikipedia. However, much of the Colorado state assembly is nearly anonymous. Same goes for mayors, city councils, school boards, and sheriffs.

I'd like to build a site using drupal that allows me to make standardized profile questions for different elected positions. So for example sheriffs would be asked to answer a standardized set of questions on gun control, violence, etc... City council members would be asked to answer questions on zoning and public works.

The site needs to allow for an administrator to create the forms and then the ability to authorize a login for these local politicians to fill in their profiles and edit them. The second part of the site needs to be a forum for people to discuss local politics. The reason I post here, is because beyond installing drupal I have zero experience in drupal. From my research, it seems like the modules for what this site needs already exist and need to be lightly modified.

I'm looking for an experienced drupal developer to put the site together. Although I don't expect the site to be very aesthetically appealing, I do need for it to be extremely easy to navigate (once again, it seems like modules already exist). This site will never make any money so I cannot pay someone for this work. However, I think for someone experienced in drupal this kind of site can be put together within a day.

What you get from it - Exposure for your business. It's more than fair that your name is on the site and contacted to the politicians for their own website. The website will gather quite a bit of traffic the closer we get to next november. My old roommate works for the Denver Post online division so I hope we're able to cooperate with them. This is a public information project, you will be contributing to the Democratic process. Nothing can be more important than knowing someone's positions before voting for them.

I hope that this site becomes a utility for coloradans so that when they see, "Vote for Joe Schmoe" they can visit this site to get info about him. Joe Schmoe might be a retired school teacher with no way of building his own website or knowledge of social networking sites. I'm hoping we can contact him and make it easy for him to voice his positions in a way people can search for them online.

Please contact me if you're interested.

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