Civic Meetup #538: Volunteer-Built: Journey of a Doorknocking App during/for a Successful Mayoral Race (plus TO/ON adaption)
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Topic: Volunteer-Built: Journey of a Doorknocking App during/for a Successful Mayoral Race (plus TO/ON adaption)
What happens when a campaign tool is too expensive, too outdated, and too frustrating to use? You build your own. We'll talk through the journey, from initial discussions to app prototyping, testing, and live use to cover the 500K+ addresses (via open data) in Edmonton. Also learnings, including recent adapting to a working example for Toronto (which we'll walk through), and the goal of helping candidates better understand their constituents.
Speaker: Eugene Chen
A campaign tech lead for successive, successful municipal campaigns since 2017, Eugene is a data-visualization focused software engineer whose work has been referenced in media outlets like the CBC, NYT, and NPR. Most recently working with the World Bank, Imagine Canada, and Code for Canada, he loves open data (is a co-founder of the Canadian Open Data Society), loves creating (ideaowl.com), and will be in Toronto (and Waterloo) later this + next week. You can find him on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 Breakout groups
Code of Conduct:
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:
https://link.civictech.ca/chat
About Us:
Our weekly civic meetups bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data.
Interested in speaking at a future event, or know someone who'd be a great speaker? We'd love to hear from you:
Have a space that could host up to 80 civic-minded folks for an evening? Consider recommending your venue:
Come and be part of it!
For more info:
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Ready to join in on the fun?
Platform Sponsors
Don't let broken lines of code, busted API calls, and crashes ruin your app. Join the 4M developers and 90K organizations who consider Sentry “not bad” when it comes to application monitoring. Use code “guild” for 3 free months of the team plan.
https://sentry.io
Torc is a community-first platform bringing together remote-first software engineer and developer opportunities from across the globe. Join a network that’s all about connection, collaboration, and finding your next big move — together.
Join our community today!
Civic Meetup #538: Volunteer-Built: Journey of a Doorknocking App during/for a Successful Mayoral Race (plus TO/ON adaption)
Topic: Volunteer-Built: Journey of a Doorknocking App during/for a Successful Mayoral Race (plus TO/ON adaption)
What happens when a campaign tool is too expensive, too outdated, and too frustrating to use? You build your own. We'll talk through the journey, from initial discussions to app prototyping, testing, and live use to cover the 500K+ addresses (via open data) in Edmonton. Also learnings, including recent adapting to a working example for Toronto (which we'll walk through), and the goal of helping candidates better understand their constituents.
Speaker: Eugene Chen
A campaign tech lead for successive, successful municipal campaigns since 2017, Eugene is a data-visualization focused software engineer whose work has been referenced in media outlets like the CBC, NYT, and NPR. Most recently working with the World Bank, Imagine Canada, and Code for Canada, he loves open data (is a co-founder of the Canadian Open Data Society), loves creating (ideaowl.com), and will be in Toronto (and Waterloo) later this + next week. You can find him on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 Breakout groups
Code of Conduct:
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:
https://link.civictech.ca/chat
About Us:
Our weekly civic meetups bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data.
Interested in speaking at a future event, or know someone who'd be a great speaker? We'd love to hear from you:
Have a space that could host up to 80 civic-minded folks for an evening? Consider recommending your venue:
Come and be part of it!
For more info:
Get in touch!
hi@guild.host