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fixmystreet
This is mySociety's popular map-based reporting platform: easy to install in new countries and regions

Perl · 617 stars
alaveteli
Provide a Freedom of Information request system for your jurisdiction

Ruby · 418 stars
theyworkforyou
Keeping tabs on the UK's parliaments and assemblies

PHP · 259 stars
parlparse
The scraper/parser that produces data for TheyWorkForYou, PublicWhip, etc

Python · 71 stars
writetothem
Write to your MP, MEP, & other elected representatives.

PHP · 60 stars
whatdotheyknow-theme
The Alaveteli theme for WhatDoTheyKnow (UK)

HTML · 35 stars
uk_local_authority_names_and_codes
Data and lookups between different kinds of local authority

Jupyter Notebook · 13 stars
caps
A simple, open database of local government climate action plan documents and emissions data.

HTML · 12 stars
local-intelligence-hub

Python · 11 stars
misc-scripts
Miscellaneous scripts (deploying, log rotation, lockfiles, git hooks, server config, etc)

Perl · 11 stars
mapit.mysociety.org
A Django project for running mySociety's main instance of MapIt for the UK

Python · 7 stars
template_data_repo
Template repository for data processing, notebooks, and charting

Jupyter Notebook · 4 stars
research-repository
A place for mySociety to keep its research in a sensibly organised and presented manner.

Python · 3 stars
python-data-auto-template
Cookie Cutter template for mySociety data projects

Python · 2 stars
parl_register_interests
Applying NLP to register of members interests

Python · 2 stars
open311-adapter
An Open311 adapter to receive Open311 reports from FixMyStreet and send them on to non-Open311 services

Perl · 2 stars
foi-for-councils

Ruby · 1 star
appg-membership
Scraper and raw_data for APPG memberships

Python · 1 star
belgium-theme
The Alaveteli theme for Belgian site Transparencia

HTML · 1 star
data_common
Common tools for dataset and notebook transformation

Python · 1 star
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Provide more information on spam prevention measures (`Allow new responses from`) Open

f:request-management improvement text-change user-experience x:uk

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9539 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 14, 2026
docker/bootstrap creates a dangling config/general.yml symlink, silently falling back to default config Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9532 · Opened Sep 12, 2026
render_exception turns any post-render exception into DoubleRenderError Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9531 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 12, 2026
Add Transport for Greater Manchester as a body Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

mysociety/fixmystreet#6138 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Provide a way for a Projects user to jump to a the ‘classification’ or ‘extraction’ screen for a particular body’s response Open

f:projects

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9529 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
robots.txt misses several crawler-heavy paths and carries rules that match no URL Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 92/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9517 · Opened Sep 6, 2026
Disk usage expectation for message indexing Open

f:search nlnet:madada

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9514 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Improvements when handling delivery error messages Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9513 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Search is reindexing way too often Open

f:search nlnet:madada

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9510 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Add simple way to report a problem via a map, rather than street name/postcode or current location Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mysociety/fixmystreet#6123 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Make redactions clearer with link to help content Open

easier-admin f:redaction improvement x:uk

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9501 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Potential search count speed issues Open

f:search

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9498 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Rejected responses get bounced to no-reply addresses Open

easier-admin f:request-management improvement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9496 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Remove legacy `PublicBodyCategory` Open

f:framework improvement x:uk

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9490 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
[ERROR] public_body#show (ActionView::Template::Error) "wrong argument type nil (expected String) Open

bug f:attachments x:uk

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9478 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
[2027 Scorecards] Add text to G&F Q8 for audit requesting audit via spreadsheet Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

mysociety/ceuk-marking#281 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
[2027 Scorecards] Set up audit volunteer accounts Open

mysociety/ceuk-marking#280 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Detect disposable and relay email domains in `UserSpamScorer` Open

enhancement f:user-profiles reduce-spam x:australia x:sweden x:uk

mysociety/alaveteli#9467 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Add LLM guidance files (`AGENTS.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, etc) Open

enhancement f:framework x:uk

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9466 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 13, 2026
can't sign up to alerts when constituency name is mentioned from search results Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

mysociety/theyworkforyou#2051 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Make the messaging clearer when hitting the request frequency limit Open

f:request-creation improvement reduce-admin x:uk

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9463 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Response emails are sent in a language the requester never chose Open

bug f:i18n improvement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9462 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 12, 2026
In App notifications to reports Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

mysociety/fixmystreet#6082 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Colour Coded Pins on the map based on report status Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

mysociety/fixmystreet#6081 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
HTML responses wrapped in a broken tag lose their body Open

bug f:attachments improvement

mysociety/alaveteli#9459 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Track changes to tags Open

easier-admin f:admin f:authorities improvement x:uk

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9458 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Help page for classification system Open

admin-easier admin-reduce help-pages

mysociety/whatdotheyknow-theme#2141 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Welcome page button issues on mobile Open

design

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

mysociety/whatdotheyknow-theme#2140 · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Prevent admin links from moving around Open

easier-admin t:design

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9451 · Opened Aug 10, 2026
About your MS/MSP blurbs Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mysociety/theyworkforyou#2047 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Memberships for Senedd and Scottish Parliament Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mysociety/theyworkforyou#2046 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Improved postcode disambiguation page Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

mysociety/theyworkforyou#2045 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
‘Write to some’ flow Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

mysociety/writetothem#581 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
More specified casework/campaigning links to new sections Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

mysociety/writetothem#580 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Accessible advice boxes Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mysociety/writetothem#579 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Ability to add `CensorRule` to an `InfoRequestBatch` Open

easier-admin f:redaction improvement x:uk

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9441 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Improve UK-specific mobile number text mask Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mysociety/whatdotheyknow-theme#2138 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
`Stripe::InvalidRequestError` invalid email address via `User#erase!` Open

easier-admin f:payments f:user-profiles improvement x:uk

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9440 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Make it obvious that proposed email address is the same as current Open

easier-admin enhancement f:admin

mysociety/alaveteli#9438 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 6, 2026
Postgres indexes on `has_tag_string_tags` table Open

f:framework improvement performance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9434 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 4, 2026
[Bug] I am unable to update my `about_me`. Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9433 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Improve caching of `internal_admin_body.id` Open

f:authorities improvement performance

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 66/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9432 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Add button to reset `FoiAttachment` prominence to defaults Open

easier-admin f:admin f:attachments improvement x:uk

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9431 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Add "redeliver here" button for holding pen messages Open

easier-admin f:admin improvement x:uk

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 67/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9430 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Google document viewer for attachments not loading Open

bug f:attachments f:request-analysis x:uk

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9425 · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Disable requesting ability if a User has a bounce message Open

f:request-creation reduce-misuse x:uk

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9421 · Opened Jul 30, 2026
[Scorecards 2027] Handle comparisons with multiple previous years Open

project:scorecards

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

mysociety/caps#823 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Make it easier to search for requests made to bodies in a given category Open

f:categories f:search improvement x:uk

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

mysociety/alaveteli#9404 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
Create help page around commercial use of FOI Open

better-quality-requests help-pages p-p-p

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

mysociety/whatdotheyknow-theme#2127 · Opened Jul 17, 2026
Year displaying oddly in one of Bunham's vote summaries Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mysociety/theyworkforyou#2043 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 14, 2026

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