openaustralia / oaf

OpenAustralia Foundation
https://github.com/openaustralia/oaf#readme
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Send through information to the Outreachy team #252

Closed equivalentideas closed 7 years ago

equivalentideas commented 7 years ago

We've been accepted to be part of this Outreachy Round, to host an internship to hack on an OpenAustralia Foundation project.

The next steps is to send through the necessary information to the Outreachy Coordinators:

There's examples of what the other participating projects have sent through here https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/2017/MayAugust

equivalentideas commented 7 years ago

I'm hacking on this in here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mnt4KmFtG3_zXIK5iqRwOp03J-DJwQWN2nmEXfivVeo/edit?usp=sharing

equivalentideas commented 7 years ago

Here's what Cadasta did:

Cadasta

Cadasta aims to simplify, modernize, and expedite the documentation of property rights in places where it does not exist today.

Internship projects:

  • Enhance user settings and create a dashboard Python, Django, JavaScript, front-end

  • Create new ways for users to log in Python, Django, JavaScript, back-end

  • Create a browser-based data collection tool for mobile users HTML, JavaScript

  • Expand QA test coverage (looking for applicants as of March 6) Python, understanding of test specs and coverage, familiarity with Selenium

equivalentideas commented 7 years ago

Done:

OpenAustralia Foundation

The OpenAustralia Foundation aims to transform our democracy by giving all Australians the tools they need to effect the change they want. We create simple technologies that encourage and enable people to participate directly in the political process on a local, community and national level.

Internship projects:

  • Make an easy way for volunteers to contribute information about elected local councillors so we can help people write to them etc. . Ruby on Rails, human-friendly interface design
  • Build a site that describes key attributes of what makes good access to government information laws so people can see how laws in different jurisdictions stack up and advocate for improvements. HTML, CSS, human-friendly interface design
  • Create a site where people can suggest government documents for others to make Freedom of Information request for. Ruby on Rails, human-friendly interface design