callcongress

Alexa skill to help people find out about current legislation and contact their congresspeople.

Use

Alexa, ask call congress

• what are some upcoming bills? (you can say “no” or “next” to cycle through the list of bills)
• set my zip to
• call my representative

Deployment

Build

lein uberjar

Upload to AWS Lambda

• https://console.aws.amazon.com/lambda/home?region=us-east-1#/functions/CallCongress/$LATEST?tab=code
• ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:316385792873:function:CallCongress:$LATEST

Upload interaction model to AWS

Test out on Alexa

https://developer.amazon.com/edw/home.html#/skill/amzn1.ask.skill.211aa2b8-b06f-4e2b-bdc1-8b0fa87673cd/en_US/testing

Database

An AWS DynamoDB table is used to store zip codes.

• https://console.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/home?region=us-east-1#tables:selected=congress_user_prefs
• arn:aws:dynamodb:us-east-1:316385792873:table/congress_user_prefs

License

Copyright © 2016 Michael Travers

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.