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Morphing your Ruby into Civil Tech

Morphing your Ruby into Civil Tech

A lightning talk given by Keith Pitty & Henare Degan at the Sydney Ruby or Rails meetup on 8 March 2016

Keith Pitty

March 08, 2016
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  1. Morphing your Ruby into
    Civic Tech
    Henare Degan & Keith Pitty

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  3. institutional transparency

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  4. personal privacy

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  5. “we’re getting it
    profoundly backwards”

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  6. “freedom of information
    is broken”

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  7. what can we do?

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  8. “use the power of the
    medium in its own protection”

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  9. how can we contribute?

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  10. “do what you love in
    service of the work”

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  11. community

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  13. theyvoteforyou.org.au

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  19. other projects

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  20. righttoknow.org.au

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  25. Rails app

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  26. used in 25 jurisdictions
    worldwide

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  27. planning alerts.org.au

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  30. scrapers

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  31. morph.io

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  35. OpenAustralia

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  36. would you like to
    contribute?

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