Continuing its borg-like absorption of all civic software, the mySociety repository now contains the source code to TheyWorkForYou. You can browse it here. It is licensed slightly more liberally than the rest of the mSociety code, under a BSD style license rather than Affero GPL.

Up until now the poor code has only seen freedom as a cunningly hidden tarball on Sourceforge, released every time somebody asked me to. It’s rubbing its eyes, a mole coming out of the dark, so be nice to it. Or perhaps sign up to Github to get email every time anything is done to it.

Some random things to look at or do:

• A directory called easyparliament, a jokey name we considered calling the site for a while. Well, it wouldn’t have got us into as much trouble as calling it (guy) fawkes!
• Digest the Wikipedia linking code (this nasty shell script finds the latest titles database and downloads it from wikipedia), find the code that calls it, and tidy it up so it links to TWFY for MP names said by MPs, rather than to Wikipedia.
• Read a list of things that need doing to it, or make up your own.