I'm developing software to protect our rights. I will need help. I have a couple working prototypes my 50501 people will enjoy. But I don't have enough time or manpower to make it all. I'm not relying on the midterms, and neither should you.
Any software devs interested in seeing if you can help, I don't know what the rules on posting contacts are, but I will try to get back to you quickly. Main ideas:
Boycotter Project: Create and subscribe to lists of manufacturers and products, tagging them (tech, gaming) and assigning a morality score and an optional source. Pops up on purchases or viewing products like Honey to notify you if it's on your list of 2000 products you boycott from. Has a map feature for searching for locat...
I'm developing software to protect our rights. I will need help. I have a couple working prototypes my 50501 people will enjoy. But I don't have enough time or manpower to make it all. I'm not relying on the midterms, and neither should you.
Any software devs interested in seeing if you can help, I don't know what the rules on posting contacts are, but I will try to get back to you quickly. Main ideas:
Boycotter Project: Create and subscribe to lists of manufacturers and products, tagging them (tech, gaming) and assigning a morality score and an optional source. Pops up on purchases or viewing products like Honey to notify you if it's on your list of 2000 products you boycott from. Has a map feature for searching for locations near you color coded by their morality score. This should be ready soon as Samsung app and Chrome extension. I struggle with Apple.
Civitracker: You can input your zip code and see legislative events near you. Local and state level. Uses a lot of datascraping and a couple apis to get the job done. Grabs the agendas, grabs bills being discussed, tries to tag them. Should be able to allow the user to subscribe to a topic and get notifications of events on that topic. Make it an app, extension, website. I have about 30 of the state scrapers in mediocre shape (30 states 30 cities) and am developing it as fast as I can.
Organize: I don't even know if this is possible. But I'm going to try. I would really appreciate a hand with this one.
I heard that it's easier to manage a group of 100k protesters, than 100 groups of 1k. There must be software to split a large group of people into smaller organized groups pinging one another on a map. It needs to be tolerant to an internet shutdown(this is where it likely becomes impossible). During COVID they used bluetooth for contact tracing to tell who was within 6 ft of one another. Same tech can be used here, in theory. You let out a bluetooth signal with your code (eg 50501), your map coords and your username/uuid. Anyone with the same code nearby will now be grouped with you on the map. You can vote for a simple few group protocols, eg split up, with the number 5. Should take the average of the votes and split the group into groups of that amount if enough people vote for it. The tricky part I see passing all that data for so many users through bluetooth hops to keep it decentralized in case of an internet shutdown. If it was a funded nonprofit there could be servers and it's much more workable.
I'm tired now and going to sleep. It's the best I got for today. If any software devs wanna poke a hole in the ideas and save me the time developing something that's not possible go for it, that last idea is really out of my wheelhouse and I haven't even begun developing. The first two have decent work done and can be expected soon.
Also, infographics aren't all that difficult to make. Stuff like https://eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
I think it'd be cool to share some ideas around more infographics like that