This exists!
It's called #opennews and it is fairly well populated.
Server is: irc.mozilla.org
- Dan
It's called #opennews and it is fairly well populated.
Server is: irc.mozilla.org
- Dan
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Dan Schultz
P: (215) 400-1233
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On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Jason Blum <<email obscured>> wrote:
>
> 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 obscured>>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
>>
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On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Jason Blum <<email obscured>> wrote:
>
> 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 obscured>>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
>>
>> --
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>>
>>
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