The UK group has taken a somewhat "outsider" attitude, we will try to try to work with existing bodies. Efforts, working with Liss Jeffrey of ecommons.net are being made to find ways to build an "official" conduit that will enable independant projects like this.
We'd like to change the names of publicwhip and theyworkforyou. Any suggestions?
Copyright for the parliamentary proceedings seems to make our activities permissable, but one of our goals is to work officially with the parliamentary system. This could be realistic because the parliamentary system is entirely XML based, so generating appropriate data would just be another transformation. Using this technique would provide the data in a reuseable format for any project, not just publicwhip.
Hosting theyworkforyou, which will be done after public whip, may be more contentious as it permits third party comments, so civil rules and responsive moderation will be required.
Like the UK group, we are making every effort to make our work available to anyone interested, including once its packaged documentation and source code.