Connecting people to power through their phones.
The admin interface lets activists:
- Create and edit campaigns
- Adjust call targets and phone numbers
- Record audio prompts and select versions
- Easily embed campaign forms on their website
- View campaign statistics and system analytics
The server lets callers:
- Dial in directly to the campaign number
- Fill out a web form and get a call back on their phone
- specifying a target directly
- or entering their zip code to look up their location
- Reference a script during the call
- Create a campaign with one of several types, to determine how callers are matched to targets.
- Executive connects callers to the Whitehouse Switchboard, or to a specific office if known
- Congress connects callers to their Senators, Representative, or both. Uses data from the TheUnitedStates.io.
- State connects callers to their Governor or State Legislators. Uses the OpenStates API.
- Local connects callers to a local official. Campaigners must enter these numbers in advance.
- Custom can connect callers to corporate offices, local officals, or any other phone number entered in advance.
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Choose targets by segmenting on user location (determined by zipcode or lat/lon), and order by legislative chamber or random shuffle. For local and custom campaigns, campaigners can set a specific order by drag-and-drop.
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Record audio prompts in the browser (Firefox/Chrome only), or edit with another program and upload as MP3 files. For dynamic prompts, you can also text-to-speech templates. Reuse versions between campaigns, or adjust your prompts as the campaign evolves.
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Review the campaign setup, place a test call to yourself, and get the script to embed in your action platform.
For most uses, you can just place the <script> tag provided in the launch page into your action platform. This will add a post-submit callback to your action form to connect the caller, and optionally display the script in a lightbox.
For more complex integrations, Call Power provides javascript embeds and a full json API.
Individual actions can also be synced to CRMs, via a batch process.
This application should be easy to host on Heroku, with Docker, or directly on any WSGI-compatible server. Requires Python, flask, a SQL database (we recommend Postgres, but Mysql should work), Redis or Memcache, and an SMTP server.
Read detailed instrustions at INSTALLATION.md
python tests/run.py
Political data is downloaded from open data sources as flat files stored in this repository. These are read on startup and saved in a memory cache for fast local lookup.
To update these files with new data after elections, run cd call_server/political_data/data && make clean && make, and flask load_political_data
See the license file for licensing information under the GNU AGPL. This license is applicable to the entire project, sans any 3rd party libraries that may be included.