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Chris Reed @seereadnow, Super Basic – 2023.01.12 – Google Developer Group Dallas
1. Gain a new perspective on how your work in tech
can affect other people
2. Increase your appetite and ability to engage with
civics
Luke, Stacy, et al. at GDG Dallas
James Pierce at Super Basic
Fairmount and Fort Worth neighbors
Family and friends
1. Why develop Legigram?
2. What is it? What does it have to do with civic tech?
3. DEMO
4. How does it work?
5. What's next?
6. Q&A
If a meeting is on a Monday, and they release agenda info on Thursday or Friday, that doesn’t give people who care about a particular item on council’s agenda much time to discuss with neighbors or discuss with other interested people or groups.
Every moment counts.
– Angelo Trivisonno, author of @CleBillBot, in Neighbor Up Cleveland
⬆️ Understanding of legislative process
⬆️ Civic engagement and oversight
⬆️ Better press and better government
Your city's website ➡️ 🤞 Luck ️➡️ Legistar
*h/t to David Reaves in Open Government
and apologies to interest groups, journalists, civic society
Layer capture, Moats and platforms, De-facto standards, CivicTech Patches
<!--fit---> 1. Personal + local motivation
2. GovTech Gap / CivicTech Patches
3. Long tail of interested users
4. Let's make software better for people
Tech solutionism – the old tire swing
- Stakeholder incentives
- Extension neglect
- Disparate impact
h/t James Mickens
Security talk at
USENIX Security 2018
Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?
Tocqueville posited the “art of joining” in voluntary associations as the “fundamental science” of democracy. He famously explained that “Americans of all ages, all conditions, and all minds” learned how to guard against such democratic perils as excessive individualism, the tyranny of the majority, and the stifling effects of administrative centralization simply by “constantly joining together in groups.”
—Olivier Zunz, HistPhil.org
How does software fit?
Legigram.com provides the fastest review
of government agendas, matters,
and related attachments for over
30 million local constituents across
25 localities...and counting
1. Visit legigram.com
2. Click your city to explore recently updated agendas and matters
3. Filter matters and review attachments
4. Bookmark the page and check it weekly
5. The rest is up to you
To facilitate engagement
👀 legigram.com/places/fort-worth
👀 Accelerate by Fosgren et al.
Next.js: "Meta" Framework
Tailwind: CSS / UI
Cloudflare: Content Delivery Network 🚨
Heroku: DevOps and Hosting 🚨
Redis: Memory Store
Legistar API: Data
Google Drive: Planning spreadsheet
Github: Code Repo and Issues
Email & Twitter: Outreach and Growth 🚨
Funding: Ko-fi ➡️ Patreon
Catch-all directory
Changelog
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Race for growth, Platform front-running, Transparency and surveillance,
Complexity vs. innovation
- Attend monthly Lunch'n'Learn livestreams
- Subscribe to DFW»FWD – the DFW Weekly Forward
- Chat with other devs about all things DFW and tech
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Share improved interface for browsing agendas and matters
Articulate a vision for improving municipal tech
Increase your appetite for civic tech as a means for better engagement
Q & A
Chris Reed @seereadnow, Super Basic – 2023.01.12 – Google Developer Group Dallas
- intro.nyc – NYC, visualization
- Councilmatic - Chicago, comprehensive
- Documenters - Mid-west, crowd-source, comprehensive
- @CleBillBot – Cleveland matters real time
- GovTrack.us - Federal law making
- Ballotpedia - Elections, Jurisdictions
- OpenStates - State law making
- Free Law Project - Courts and dockets
- Govinfo.gov - Gov initiative
- How's My Driving NY - Crowd surveillance
- DoNotPay – AI fights back
