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My Outreachy Internship with Open Australia Foundation
Cross-posted from Hisayo Horie’s blog, our wonderful Outreachy intern for the last 3 months. Officially I finished my internship with Open Australia Foundation, and I already miss working with OAF so much. I learned so much about programing and development, as well as community centred technology, challenges, and most importantly where I stand and where […]
Posted in Development, Outreachy, PlanningAlerts.org.au
Also tagged Ask Your Councillors, civic tech, coding, diversity, Git, Henare Degan, hisayo horie, internship, Luke Bacon, outreachy, Rails, Ruby on Rails, tech industry
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Our plan for PlanningAlerts
Today we’re excited to welcome Hisayo Horie to our team. Over the next 3 months they will be working with us to make updating councillor data for Ask Your Local Councillors a breeze. This will breath new life into this important part of PlanningAlerts and will give thousands and thousands more people the opportunity to […]
Posted in Planning, PlanningAlerts.org.au
Also tagged Ask Your Councillors, councillors, outreachy, planning, PlanningAlerts API, PlanningAlerts Backers, PlanningAlerts Supporters, popolo
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Making your emails faster and more secure
Last week we made a couple of changes that make your PlanningAlerts emails more responsive and a bit more secure. They’re great examples of the kind of improvements we’d usually struggle to find to the time for, were it not for our maintenance-focussed start to the year. When you sign up for an alert or […]
Posted in Development, PlanningAlerts.org.au
Also tagged cuttlefish, Email, encryption, privacy
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The year is almost over – here’s our plan for the rest of 2016
While our trip to Cockatoo Island a year ago seems like it was an age away, this year feels like it has sped by. We’ve already launched two major projects in 2016 – something I don’t think we’ve ever done before. No wonder it feels like we’ve been busy. We had our final quarterly planning […]
Posted in Planning
Also tagged Ask Your Councillors, celebration, Civic Tech Monthly, CryptoParty, donations, mobile, morph.io, performance, PlanningAlerts Supporters, research, Right To Know, They Vote For You
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Adding your local councillors to PlanningAlerts
You may have heard that you can now use PlanningAlerts to discuss development applications with your local councillors. With over 5,000 councillors in Australia just gathering the data is a big job. We’ve already done that for about half the councils we currently cover but we need your help to collect the rest. How to […]
Posted in PlanningAlerts.org.au
Also tagged Ask Your Councillors, contributing, councillors, data, local government, open data, spreadsheets, volunteer
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Setting sail for the second half of 2016
A couple of weeks ago we had our third planning session for 2016. These quarterly planning sessions allow us to reflect on the work we’ve been doing and make any adjustments we need during the year. This post is a little update on what we discussed and what we’ll be working on from July through […]
Posted in Planning
Also tagged Ask Your Councillors, planning, Right To Know, schedule, team
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Ask Your Local Councillors
PlanningAlerts makes it easy to impact what happens to your local buildings, parks, streets, and infrastructure. Over the last 7 years almost 40,000 people have signed up for alerts and thousands of you have made official comments on development applications for everyone to see. But there are more ways to impact what gets built and […]
Posted in Announcement, PlanningAlerts.org.au
Also tagged councillors, development, local democracy, local government, local planning
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Picking a focus for the final push on our current major project
A couple of weeks ago Kat and I spent some time working out how best to spend the remaining time on our latest major project: helping people impact local planning by making it easy for them to write to their local councillors through PlanningAlerts. I thought it would be useful for our team, and anyone […]
Posted in Development, PlanningAlerts.org.au
Also tagged design, Design Sprint, design thinking, local councillors, local democracy, planning, process
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Prototyping better development notices at the OpenAustralia Hackfest
Last month, the OpenAustralia Foundation ran a Hackfest, at the end of their two week-long residency at Frontyard in Marrickville. On the day, a group of us decided to take a look at the notices posted at properties with proposed development applications. You’ll have seen them before: they’re often bright green, tied to fences, and […]
Posted in Event, PlanningAlerts.org.au
Also tagged community, development, development applications, hackfest, planning
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