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

Transcript

1. Morphing your Ruby into Civic Tech Henare Degan & Keith Pitty
3. institutional transparency
4. personal privacy
5. “we’re getting it profoundly backwards”
6. “freedom of information is broken”
7. what can we do?
8. “use the power of the medium in its own protection”
9. how can we contribute?
10. “do what you love in service of the work”
11. community
13. theyvoteforyou.org.au
19. other projects
20. righttoknow.org.au
25. Rails app
26. used in 25 jurisdictions worldwide
27. planning alerts.org.au
30. scrapers
31. morph.io
35. OpenAustralia
36. would you like to contribute?