Time to dig into http://Poplus.org and explore how civic tech components can benefit your city/state/nation and the world at the same time.
See the mini-grant opportunity below. And share your idea here: http://bit.ly/poplusgroup (And if you are a funder, why not increase the size of that fund?) On a related note, the "What is Poplus?" event in Chicago went well and was recorded thanks to the Smart Chicago Collaborative: http://bit.ly/poplusedemblog Slides: http://bit.ly/popluspresentation The slides include a great seven minute lighting talk by project leaders from Chile and the UK from TransparencyCamp - direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfgwyHokvQ Steven Clift, E-Democracy.org From: Paul Lenz <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 11:41 AM Subject: [Poplus] Micro-Grants for Technical Development - Apply Now! To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Hi there Following on from my mail about the finance call: - We have $20,000 from the original Poplus grant to disburse to individuals and groups carrying out technical development work on/using the components up to $5,000 per project - Ideally the monies are to be spent developing new components or new features for existing components (like the Facebook integration for WriteIt) however they can be used for implementations of components used within larger projects - To apply, please complete this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s0vJ2tDugRhqc74HQ39kmQpQ8noK8WF3R-wLFbyfToE/viewform - Please get your applications in by 10th September 2014 - The target is for successful projects to be chosen and stakeholders informed by 17th September If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch One final point to add - if you are from a funding organisation and might be interested in helping support the growth of Poplus through funding micro-grants, please do let us know! We think that it could be a very powerful tool for helping expand the impact of the community. Many thanks Paul -- Poplus.org - Get involved: http://poplus.org/get-involved Notes: https://popluscon.hackpad.com IRC: #poplus https://webchat.freenode.net --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Poplus - Collaborative Civic Coding" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/poplus/CAFtFo_Lcb2WPg3UTZEwhX1vMgy1mNPz2wu552c5JqSja7nmu_A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. ᐧ ----------------------------------------- Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire: http://groups.dowire.org/groups/newswire Replies go to members of Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/1tUO4r139jnjsGLnyDxFVr For digest version or to leave Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire, email [email protected] with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
