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Changing the World through Software James Turk [email_address]
Developers in the room? How many of you are political?
[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Do the issues matter?
“ I believe that people with an engineering point of view as a basic foundation are in a pretty good position to jump in and solve some of these problems... Those people are not attracted to the political process. And why would someone be?” Why the disparity?
When these are the only people involved...
...are we surprised that this is who we elect?
Let's focus on one of these guys... ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Let's focus on one of those guys... What is The Internet? A big truck? A series of tubes? A participatory democracy? NOOOOOO! NO! YES!!
Who controls the internet? DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!
What can we do? 2) Software to give people information 1) Software to get people involved
What can we do? 1) Software to get people involved ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],more people involved a more representative government Less power for individual interest groups A government better informed on issues
What can we do? 2) Software to give people information ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],More public information More voters Better informed voters Reduced corruption
How can we build this? Scrape the data But it's 2008 It's really not that hard... sometimes
How can we build this? Scrape the data But it's 2008 Now we have APIs ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],It's really not that hard... sometimes
How can we build this? Make it social Make it accessible Web 2.0: “make the users do the hard stuff” Even trivial interaction prompts further interaction Just Make It Just make it look better than an excel sheet Django (or Rails) will let you get it up fast Open Source it (take “make the users do the hard stuff” to a new level) and/or throw up a simple API
so... let's build something + + = ?

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Developers can Change The World

  • 1. Changing the World through Software James Turk [email_address]
  • 2. Developers in the room? How many of you are political?
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  • 4. “ I believe that people with an engineering point of view as a basic foundation are in a pretty good position to jump in and solve some of these problems... Those people are not attracted to the political process. And why would someone be?” Why the disparity?
  • 5. When these are the only people involved...
  • 6. ...are we surprised that this is who we elect?
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  • 8. Let's focus on one of those guys... What is The Internet? A big truck? A series of tubes? A participatory democracy? NOOOOOO! NO! YES!!
  • 9. Who controls the internet? DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!
  • 10. What can we do? 2) Software to give people information 1) Software to get people involved
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  • 13. How can we build this? Scrape the data But it's 2008 It's really not that hard... sometimes
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  • 15. How can we build this? Make it social Make it accessible Web 2.0: “make the users do the hard stuff” Even trivial interaction prompts further interaction Just Make It Just make it look better than an excel sheet Django (or Rails) will let you get it up fast Open Source it (take “make the users do the hard stuff” to a new level) and/or throw up a simple API
  • 16. so... let's build something + + = ?