Ops on the Edge of Democracy
summary
Over six years of community work produces an open source classroom platform called Slate open source platform that handles SSO, blogging, progress reports and data ingestion; a civic project unlock Philly elevator tracker that surfaces elevator outages and helps advocates cut outage frequency; discovery that a published school-district open dataset exposes a $3 billion funding gap; a call to build one‑click local deployments (no Docker hoops), free idle hosting, and shareable, distributed asymmetric infrastructure for dozens of groups — there are already 76 Code for America brigades.
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