u/anitacigawet

Hi, I'm building an open-source project called Z-SPAN which is a virtual library for local politics. (a type of C-SPAN for Gen-Z)

I created it over the past 2 months with Opus 4.7 & fable 5, and I'd like to show it off since it's almost ready for release (except for parsers).

The idea is to reduce the time requirements that gate true participation in local politics (attending and/or watching 4+ hours of council meetings weekly) so that anyone can stay semi-informed, without sacrificing any more time than absolutely necessary.

I want to emphasize that most people literally do not have the time required to participate in their civic processes, or access to even a shred of information regarding decisions that directly impact them.

It features

• A state, county, and city selector that displays meetings as episodes
• A cast page, to familiarize yourself with your local officials
• A (WIP) national guide/directory for live city council meetings (where available)
• A librarian that will answer your questions with in-text video citations, (or it wont answer at all)
• A headquarters page/loading screen, so you can (CLI-version only) watch your LLM while they process your selected meeting in real time. The windows show the active agents and their current task, and each request an agent sends becomes a shooting star.
• Experimental semi-functioning hand tracking
• Of course, I will eventually add topic tracking, automatic processing of followed cities, and more

Please let me know what you think, and I'm open to any questions/suggestions!

edit: forgot the footer my bad https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fzot89k4hhmch1.gif

edit2: Here is a (slightly disorganized) video showcase of the website version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTpR9jRl314

(which has since been ported to a local loader/client since I don't have the compute to process all 50 states in real time. Also the video contains one tiny error that I left a comment explaining.)