Tool Electron desktop apps Introducing Aufbau

• By Michael Keller
• Michael Keller
• Al Jazeera America

Remembering where all our tools live and how to use them can be tiresome, even for us. As a potential solution, we’re experimenting with packaging these previously web apps into a desktop application using GitHub’s Electron framework, which NPR has also been experimenting with for photo tools. The project is called Aufbau and it’s up on GitHub.

Project bill tracking statewide open states api Google Docs Tabletop JavaScript Launching the Minnesota Legislative Bill Tracker

• By Beth Hawkins, Kaeti Hinck, Tom Nehil, James Nord, Erika Owens, Alan Palazzolo
• Beth Hawkins, Kaeti Hinck, Tom Nehil, James Nord, Alan Palazzolo
• MinnPost

This week, MinnPost launched an effort to track legislation in Minnesota throughout the 2013 session.