On Friday my friend and cracking coder Stuart Harrison, of the Open Data Institute, launched a collaborative project to collate European Parliament 2014 election results for the UK regions using GitHub. As I type I'm waiting for the start of results night so I can help with that project.
Inspired, I spent some of today building something similar to build a list of candidates for the UK General Election in 2015. Through a recent work project I've realised there isn't really a good data source for candidates, and the method Stuart devised for the European election results seemed like a great fit.
You can help build this with me, and all you really need to know is how to create and edit CSV files. I've split the following instructions into developer and non-developer guides to give each a more easy-to-follow set.