Progressive coders network – grassroots tech, prague
- 2. Culture
- 3. Rare cross-group interaction; guarded information; varied internal comms Highly encouraged with shared team spaces/ documents/management; aligned vision & goals Collaboration Empowers, not limits; clearly communicated; highly valued; continually updated Non-value-add; poorly documented/ communicated/understood; inefficient & rigid Process Transparency Secretive decision making; inefficient communication; limited buy-in Developer methodologies; community-driven priorities; ongoing, open conversation Hierarchical; slow decision making; limited team input; threatens collaboration Flat; rapid consensus-based decision making; process-driven; collaborative Structure Defined and repeatable; tracked; broad and individual team focus; ongoing curation Inconsistent; rarely defined; not cross- organizational Onboarding Outreach Self-serving; 1:many approach; outdated tactics (print/ads/email/digital) Empowering; 1:1 engagement; customizable approach; partner and relationship building Dictative; limited asks; at arms length; underestimated passion/skills Collaborative; community content embraced; direct organizational extension Community Collaborative building process; user in mind; direct community feedback/recommendations Developed in bubble; aligned to internal goals; inflexible; non-integrated Offers Challenge Traditional Prog CodeInternalExternal
- 5. Process
- 6. Transparency
- 7. Structure
- 8. Onboarding
- 9. Outreach
- 10. Community
- 11. Offers Apps SolutionProblem Open-source data backend to fuel political audience-facing tools Connect projects to organized developer/supporter network Organizing grassroots projects difficult Voter data prohibitively expensive/disconnected Issue reminders and calls to action to engage with local representative Vote on issues, direct candidate:constituent engagement Constituent with minimal say in governmental policy Limited awareness to connecting with to elected officials on issues Peer-to-peer ride sharing Gamified, automated calling Challenging driving awareness with potential supporters In person engagement barriers Social interface with integrated engagement opportunities Scaled engagement challenging for issues/campaigns
- 12. Next Steps? Read “Grassroots Tech” medium.com/ @joepbreslin Join us ProgCode.co
- 13. Rare cross-group interaction; guarded information; varied internal comms Highly encouraged with shared team spaces/ documents/management; aligned vision & goals Collaboration Empowers, not limits; clearly communicated; highly valued; continually updated Non-value-add; poorly documented/ communicated/understood; inefficient & rigid Process Transparency Secretive decision making; inefficient communication; limited buy-in Developer methodologies; community-driven priorities; ongoing, open conversation Hierarchical; slow decision making; limited team input; threatens collaboration Flat; rapid consensus-based decision making; process-driven; collaborative Structure Defined and repeatable; tracked; broad and individual team focus; ongoing curation Inconsistent; rarely defined; not cross- organizational Onboarding Outreach Self-serving; 1:many approach; outdated tactics (print/ads/email/digital) Empowering; 1:1 engagement; customizable approach; partner and relationship building Dictative; limited asks; at arms length; underestimated passion/skills Collaborative; community content embraced; direct organizational extension Community Collaborative building process; user in mind; direct community feedback/recommendations Developed in bubble; aligned to internal goals; inflexible; non-integrated Offers Challenge Traditional Prog CodeInternalExternal
- 14. Projects
- 15. Description "Social Crowd Reach enables you to find like-minded people, organize, and quickly spread a message across your digital networks. You can start your own campaign, or hop into an existing team.” Project Name Social Roots Project Lead Ana Jamborcic (@turtletheturtle/#socialcrowdreach) Website SocialRoots.io Skills
- 16. Description "The Political Revolution is a collective of volunteers that grew out of the Bernie Sanders campaign. We’re an organization focused on digital campaigning, and connecting progressives across the nation. Our goal is to support progressive candidates and ballot iniatives on a state-by-state message, and to amplify the message of other like-minded organizations and campaigns” Project Name The Political Revolution Project Lead Gloriann Field (@gfields/#political-revolution) Website ThePoliticalRev.com Skills App Dev Web Dev
- 17. Description "Dozens of states have made it more difficult to get to polling stations. Minorities are particularly affected. Carpool Vote is a platform that introduces volunteer drivers to people who need a ride to the polling station.” Project Name Carpool Vote Project Lead Sasjkia Otto (@sasjkia) Website CarpoolVote.com Skills
- 18. Description Decisions get made by people who show up. Progressive Events is here to point you to events in your community so you can be part of that process. Project Name Progressive Events Project Lead Jon Culver (@jonculver/#progressive-events) Website ProgressiveEvents.org Skills
- 19. Description “We need an honest, accountable Congress, but trying to win each congressional seat one-by-one is impossible. So let's replace Congress all at once. Our plan is to recruit and run 400+ candidates as a single, unified campaign with a single plan.“ Project Name Brand New Congress Tech Project Lead Saikat Chakrabarti (@saikat/#brandnewcongress) Website BrandNewCongress.org Skills
- 20. Description “Contribute to software projects for social good.” Project Name Code Corps Project Lead Josh Smith (@joshsmith/#code-corps) Website CodeCorps.org Skills
- 21. Description “GrassrootsPB is an automated phonebanking call-tracker for Bernie-esque down-ballot candidates. It features a live call map, leaderboards, ranks, achievements, teams, and more.” Project Name Grassroots PB Project Lead Laksh Bhasin (@lbhasin/#grassrootspb) Website GrassrootsPB.com Skills
- 22. Description “Make your voice count before new laws are passed. New laws are passed every week. IssueVoter empowers busy Americans like you to make an impact. We alert you when issues you care about are up for vote, and with one click, instantly send your opinion to your representative.” Project Name Issue Voter Project Lead Maria Yuan/Chris Henry (@mariayuan/@chrishenry) Website IssueVoter.org Skills
- 23. Description “Remove the influence of money in politics by reducing the price tag of running from hundreds of thousands of dollars to $0 with this open source organizing tool.” Project Name Movement App Project Lead Josh Smith (@joshsmith/#movement) Website GetMovement.org Skills
- 24. Description “Open-source National Voter File system. Aims to provide an open- source solution in accessing and reaching-out voters. This database will enable others to create tools that will engage with voters.” Project Name National Voter File Project Lead Ben Galewsky (@Bengal/#national-voter-file) Website In-execution plan Skills
- 25. Description “Issues oriented central hub for the people’s movement.” Project Name Not Me Us Project Lead Michael Hsu (@evepizza/#notmeus) Website NotMeUs.us Skills
- 26. Description “The next step for Bernie Sanders’ movement is a new group called Our Revolution, which will fight to transform America and advance the progressive agenda that we believe in.” Project Name Our Revolution Project Lead Kyle Machado, Chris Mabry @chrismabry, @kylemachado/#our-revolution Website OurRevolution.com
- 27. Description "Focused on distributed local community organizing” Project Name Politics Reborn Project Lead Vigie Ramos Rios (@vigie/#politics-reborn) Website PoliticsReborn.org Skills
- 28. Description “DEMOCRACY MADE EASY. You say what you want. We make sure they know. Get Started Now.“ Project Name Represent Me Project Lead Ed Dowding Website Represent.me
Editor's Notes
- #15: Issue: looking for consistent volunteers
- #16: Latest News/Needs: Updated name to Social Roots, update your bookmark
- #17: Latest News/Needs: Updated name to Social Roots, update your bookmark
- #18: Latest News/Needs: High demand for programmers. Got accepted to the voting rights alliance, partners with Rainbow Coalition (Jesse Jackson), civil rights activists, need people to clean up bugs (very active community)
- #19: Latest News/Needs: Newly added!
- #23: Needs: Consistent Volunteers - okay that few hours each week but if they could find folks who work regularly on the projects. State Level information - open state APIs so the representatives at the state and potentially county/city level could be included AD Tech Background - would like to integrate with blogs and news sites General Support: - Press - Users - Supporters - Ability to hire help - National Voter File - open source and ability to link up
- #25: Latest News/Needs: Anyone can build their very own voterfile warehouse now! Let Ben know your experience so they can improve resource