On a sort of related note (and apologies to folks I've already contacted for cross-posting), some of us are starting up a "listserve lottery" at http://nerdServe.org, inspired by http://thelistserve.com/, but specifically for civic tech developers / hackers / makers / govies / etc.
The idea is to randomly select one subscriber each day to email all the other subscribers with a few words on anything they like - but hopefully something related to their work, their tooling, process, philosophy, something they'd like to build, collaborate on, etc. It's a daily email to inspire, expose you to unfamiliar technologies and practices, introduce you to folks who might not attend the same conferences, or hang out on the same IRC, but may be working on the same problems. We'll fire things up once we reach 100 subscribers, after which time we'll require a recommendation from an existing subscriber. We'll moderate out anything offensive. Lottery winners will have one week to draft their emails. Winners will be selected randomly, so there's nothing keeping you from being selected more than once. Your email will never be shared, unless you include it in your message. All content is http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. I can't identify subscribers until they choose to do so in their own posts, but I think folks will be excited by the notoriety of many of the folks who have already signed up. I hope folks on these lists will consider joining! Thanks -Jason On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Steven Clift <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps among mysociety, sunlight, cfa, open plans, etc. there are > already some useful places where civic tech developers hang out in > real-time and provide cross-project coding advice/tips/etc. ... if > there are channels, where should I point our new developers? > > If there are not cross-project IRC channels, is this a good idea? > > For a civic-based project that relies on tech contractors and > volunteers rather than having tech folks at the core, we need places > to plug-in! > > Thanks, > Steven Clift > E-Democracy.org > > P.S. Meet Bill Bushey, our new tech lead: > http://tech.mn/news/2012/10/03/know-this-nerd-william-bushey/ Right > now he is focused on the python-based GroupServer online groups tool > that we use - http://groupserver.org/groups/development - and we are > also plotting a Drupal hack-a-thon on e-block tools that include VOIP > options for extreme accessibility - > http://groups.drupal.org/node/251383 > > Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com > Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org > Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy > Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sunlightlabs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sunlightlabs?hl=en. > >
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