Thread of posts about Poplus - please add links

[Tom Steinberg]

Hi all,

There have been quite a few posts about Poplus and Popluscon. I thought I'd start a thread where people can share anything they've read, or anything they've written themselves. Once there are a few here, it seems to me it could make for a good blog post for the Poplus.org blog. 

Bonus points for links to writeups that are not in English!

So, here's one from me to start:

http://www.mysociety.org/2014/05/09/a-federation-is-born/

best,

Tom

[Felipe Heusser]

Great Tom ! 

We are about to publish a blog post for the spanish speaking community.

I will share it this weekend.

I also would like to encourage the rest of the non english speaking poplus community to start writing/sharing posts in their own languages. Nothing more tangible of how diverse our community can be. Everyone invited.

best

Felipe

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[Martín Szyszlican]

I wrote this in english: http://www.congresointeractivo.org/popluscon-and-a-millon-possibilities/

And this in spanish, which also includes info about the progress of the fellowship: 

http://www.congresointeractivo.org/latamlab-semana-2-popluscon-y-miles-de-posibilidades/

Martín.

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[Chia-liang Kao]

Hi,

I have a quick writeup in Chinese on my blog: http://blog.clkao.org/post/197828/poplus-global-civic-hacking-community

clkao

Felipe Heusser於 2014年5月9日星期五UTC+8下午10時56分21秒寫道：

[Tom Steinberg]

Here's a detailed article from TechPresident:
http://techpresident.com/news/wegov/24982/popluscon-lowering-tech-barriers-civic-startups

best,

Tom

[James Turk]

My post for Sunlight went up here: http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/05/12/highlights-from-the-first-ever-popluscon-in-santiago/

[Fabrizio Scrollini]

Hola!

Here you can find a post in Spanish in Abrelatam from a few days ago
http://www.abrelatam.org/compartiendo-el-codigo-poplus-y-la-programacion-civica/
Happy to keep this conversation going,
Best , Fabrizio

[Steven Clift]

For me, this point in Tom's blog post is crucial:

"People really wanted access to their peers, and to the stories that they tell."

As is Martin's comment:

"One of the most repeated topics was the need to work hand in hand with the more vulnerable populations to uncover their needs, train them in the use of technology and make sure that our apps serve their goals."

CL in his post highlighted this key text from - http://www.mysociety.org/2014/05/08/santiago-chile-2014-the-first-poplus-conference/ :

• Poplus Components are small pieces of software which provide functionality for civic or democratic websites.

• Each Component solves a single problem.

• They are built to work in any country, making minimal assumptions about location.

• They are open source and free for anyone to use.

• They slot into any website, and may also inter-operate.

While I will definitely be pushing folks to tell the Poplus story in a way we can use to inspire efforts to deploy components globally (and perhaps in a U.S. state test case via Open Twin Cities folks in Minnesota at http://hackformn.org in June) for the non-coders in the mix it is the connecting, outreach, inclusion/user engagement work, and stories that we can contribute to best.

As I mentioned to many, I sit at the intersection of many online groups in the civic tech/open gov space - http://pages.e-democracy.org/List_of_groups - and convene folks here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup (new, 1200+ folks from 70 + countries) - and here - http://dowire.org (since 1998). So, I can certainly help bring in lots of folks to this Poplus online group and help spread the word as the "what is it, why would I join in?" message is sharpened so expectations aren't too divergent. 

Thanks,

Steven Clift

E-Democracy

P.S. In terms of telling the story of what Poplus can be/do/etc. some combination of Tom's intro - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzyeY4i6rXI - and the demo from Chile would be really useful to explain the "there, there" would be very useful. The demo put some meat on the bones for me. And examples that go beyond (if possible) parliamentary-content based sites would be helpful IF that is within the realm of what these components can really help foster easily.

[Pedro Daire]

I already shared this one, but just in case http://tech.transparency-initiative.org/poplus-one-ngo-turns-tech-knowledge-into-a-toolkit-for-many/

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