Progressive Coders Network – Joe Breslin

December 2, 2016

Culture

Rare cross-group interaction; guarded information; varied internal comms

Highly encouraged with shared team spaces/ documents/management; aligned vision & goalsCollaboration

Empowers, not limits; clearly communicated; highly valued; continually updated

Non-value-add; poorly documented/ communicated/understood; inefficient & rigidProcess

Transparency Secretive decision making; inefficient communication; limited buy-in

Developer methodologies; community-driven priorities; ongoing, open conversation

Hierarchical; slow decision making; limited team input; threatens collaboration

Flat; rapid consensus-based decision making; process-driven; collaborativeStructure

Defined and repeatable; tracked; broad and individual team focus; ongoing curation

Inconsistent; rarely defined; not cross-organizationalOnboarding

Outreach Self-serving; 1:many approach; outdated tactics (print/ads/email/digital)

Empowering; 1:1 engagement; customizable approach; partner and relationship building

Dictative; limited asks; at arms length; underestimated passion/skills

Collaborative; community content embraced; direct organizational extensionCommunity

Collaborative building process; user in mind; direct community feedback/recommendations

Developed in bubble; aligned to internal goals; inflexible; non-integratedOffers

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Onboarding

Outreach

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Offers

Apps SolutionProblem

Open-source data backend to fuel political audience-facing tools

Connect projects to organized developer/supporter network

Organizing grassroots projects difficult

Voter data prohibitively expensive/disconnected

Issue reminders and calls to action to engage with local

representative

Vote on issues, direct candidate:constituent engagement

Constituent with minimal say in governmental policy

Limited awareness to connecting with to elected officials on issues

Peer-to-peer ride sharing

Gamified, automated callingChallenging driving awareness with

potential supporters

In person engagement barriers

Social interface with integrated engagement opportunities

Scaled engagement challenging for issues/campaigns

Next Steps?Read “Grassroots

Tech”medium.com/@joepbreslin

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Rare cross-group interaction; guarded information; varied internal comms

Highly encouraged with shared team spaces/ documents/management; aligned vision & goalsCollaboration

Empowers, not limits; clearly communicated; highly valued; continually updated

Non-value-add; poorly documented/ communicated/understood; inefficient & rigidProcess

Transparency Secretive decision making; inefficient communication; limited buy-in

Developer methodologies; community-driven priorities; ongoing, open conversation

Hierarchical; slow decision making; limited team input; threatens collaboration

Flat; rapid consensus-based decision making; process-driven; collaborativeStructure

Defined and repeatable; tracked; broad and individual team focus; ongoing curation

Inconsistent; rarely defined; not cross-organizationalOnboarding

Outreach Self-serving; 1:many approach; outdated tactics (print/ads/email/digital)

Empowering; 1:1 engagement; customizable approach; partner and relationship building

Dictative; limited asks; at arms length; underestimated passion/skills

Collaborative; community content embraced; direct organizational extensionCommunity

Collaborative building process; user in mind; direct community feedback/recommendations

Developed in bubble; aligned to internal goals; inflexible; non-integratedOffers

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Projects

Description "Social Crowd Reach enables you to find like-minded people,

organize, and quickly spread a message across your digital networks. You can start your own campaign, or hop into an existing

team.”

Project NameSocial Roots

Project LeadAna Jamborcic

(@turtletheturtle/#socialcrowdreach)

WebsiteSocialRoots.io

Skills

Description "The Political Revolution is a collective of volunteers that grew out of the

Bernie Sanders campaign. We’re an organization focused on digital campaigning, and connecting progressives across the nation. Our goal is to

support progressive candidates and ballot iniatives on a state-by-state message, and to amplify the message of other like-minded organizations and

campaigns”

Project NameThe Political Revolution

Project LeadGloriann Field

(@gfields/#political-revolution)

WebsiteThePoliticalRev.com

Skills

App Dev Web Dev

Description "Dozens of states have made it more difficult to get to polling

stations.Minorities are particularly affected.

Carpool Vote is a platform that introduces volunteer drivers to people who need a ride to the polling station.”

Project NameCarpool Vote

Project LeadSasjkia Otto(@sasjkia)

WebsiteCarpoolVote.com

Skills

Description Decisions get made by people who show up. Progressive Events is here to point you to events in your community so you can be part

of that process.

Project NameProgressive Events

Project LeadJon Culver

(@jonculver/#progressive-events)

WebsiteProgressiveEvents.org

Skills

Description “We need an honest, accountable Congress, but trying to win each

congressional seat one-by-one is impossible. So let's replace Congress all at once. Our plan is to recruit and run 400+ candidates

as a single, unified campaign with a single plan.“

Project NameBrand New Congress Tech

Project LeadSaikat Chakrabarti

(@saikat/#brandnewcongress)

WebsiteBrandNewCongress.org

Skills

Description “Contribute to software projects for social good.”

Project NameCode Corps

Project LeadJosh Smith

(@joshsmith/#code-corps)

WebsiteCodeCorps.org

Skills

Description “GrassrootsPB is an automated phonebanking call-tracker for

Bernie-esque down-ballot candidates. It features a live call map, leaderboards, ranks, achievements, teams, and more.”

Project NameGrassroots PB

Project LeadLaksh Bhasin

(@lbhasin/#grassrootspb)

WebsiteGrassrootsPB.com

Skills

Description “Make your voice count before new laws are passed. New laws are passed every week. IssueVoter empowers busy Americans like you to make an impact. We alert you when issues you care about are

up for vote, and with one click, instantly send your opinion to your representative.”

Project NameIssue Voter

Project LeadMaria Yuan/Chris Henry

(@mariayuan/@chrishenry)

WebsiteIssueVoter.org

Skills

Description “Remove the influence of money in politics by reducing the price tag of running from hundreds of thousands of dollars to $0 with

this open source organizing tool.”

Project NameMovement App

Project LeadJosh Smith

(@joshsmith/#movement)

WebsiteGetMovement.org

Skills

Description “Open-source National Voter File system. Aims to provide an open-source solution in accessing and reaching-out voters. This database

will enable others to create tools that will engage with voters.”

Project NameNational Voter File

Project LeadBen Galewsky

(@Bengal/#national-voter-file)

WebsiteIn-execution plan

Skills

Description “Issues oriented central hub for the people’s movement.”

Project NameNot Me Us

Project LeadMichael Hsu

(@evepizza/#notmeus)

WebsiteNotMeUs.us

Skills

Description “The next step for Bernie Sanders’ movement is a new group called Our Revolution, which will fight to transform America and advance

the progressive agenda that we believe in.”

Project NameOur Revolution

Project LeadKyle Machado, Chris Mabry

@chrismabry, @kylemachado/#our-revolution

WebsiteOurRevolution.com

Description "Focused on distributed local community organizing”

Project NamePolitics Reborn

Project LeadVigie Ramos Rios

(@vigie/#politics-reborn)

WebsitePoliticsReborn.org

Skills

Description “DEMOCRACY MADE EASY.

You say what you want.We make sure they know.

Get Started Now.“

Project NameRepresent Me

Project LeadEd Dowding

WebsiteRepresent.me