people.yaml

title: People
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description: People and communication spaces that are highly interested in conversation of Polis and Polis-like tools.
content:
  - title: "Slack: Metagov"
    website: "https://metagov.org/join/community"
    source: "https://metagov.slack.com"
    picture: "/images/slack.png"
    description: >
      Metagov is a community of research and practice gathered around the
      mission to cultivate tools, practices, and communities that enable
      self-governance in the digital age.
      Channels: `#deliberative-tools-and-interop`
  - title: "Slack: Civic Tech Toronto"
    website: "https://link.civictech.ca/chat"
    source: "https://civictechto.slack.com"
    picture: "/images/slack.png"
    description: >
      Civic Tech Toronto is a vibrant and diverse community of Torontonians
      engaged in understanding and creating solutions for civic challenges
      through technology, design, and other innovative means.
      Channels: `#polis`, `#polis-portal`, `#polis-content-creation`, `#polis-tool-talk`
  - title: "Slack: Code for NL"
    website: "https://join.slack.com/t/codefornl/shared_invite/zt-2wf1pcpcj-KCYCF5C0hqhr31S~oZvf9g"
    source: "https://codefornl.slack.com"
    picture: "/images/slack.png"
    description: >
      Code for NL is the Dutch community of people working together on an open,
      fair and inclusive digital government and society.
      Channels: `#polisnl`, `#polis-portal`
  - title: "Bluesky List: Polis Practitioners"
    website: "https://bsky.app/profile/patcon.bsky.social/lists/3lcqrsp3juf2b"
    source: "https://github.com/polis-community/polis-bluesky-sync#readme"
    picture: "/images/bluesky.png"
    date: "2024-12"
    description: >
      A more curated Bluesky user list, including people actively working on
      Polis & Polis-related projects. Best-suited as a pseudo-feed of user
      posts, via the "Pin to Home" feature.
  - title: "Bluesky Starter Pack: Polis Practitioners"
    website: "https://bsky.app/profile/patcon.bsky.social/lists/3lcqrsp3juf2b"
    source: "https://github.com/polis-community/polis-bluesky-sync#readme"
    picture: "/images/bluesky.png"
    date: "2024-12"
    description: >
      A more curated Bluesky user list (as a starter pack), including people
      actively working on Polis & Polis-related projects. Best-suited for
      mass-following users. (Sync'd with list of same name as much as possible.)
  - title: "Bluesky List: Polis-curious"
    website: "https://bsky.app/profile/patcon.bsky.social/lists/3lat4n45y7r2s"
    picture: "/images/bluesky.png"
    date: "2024-12"
    description: >
      A more inclusive Bluesky user list, including people who've expressed
      interest and enthusiasm about Polis, particularly on social media.
      Best-suited as a pseudo-feed of user posts, via the "Pin to Home"
      feature.
  - title: "Twitter/X List: Polis Practitioners"
    website: "https://x.com/i/lists/1866598057024029078"
    picture: "/images/x.png"
    date: "2024-12"
    description: >
      A more curated Twitter/X user list, including people
      actively working on Polis & Polis-related projects. Best-suited for
      following users. (Sync'd with Bluesky lists as much as possible.)
  - title: "Twitter/X List: Polis-curious"
    website: "https://x.com/i/lists/1367212756475260933"
    picture: "/images/x.png"
    date: "2024-12"
    description: >
      A more inclusive Twitter/X user list, including people who've expressed
      interest and enthusiasm about Polis, particularly on social media.
      Best-suited as a pseudo-feed of user posts, via "pinning" on your list
      listing page. (Sync'd with Bluesky list as much as possible.)
  - title: "Discord: Polis User Group (PUG)"
    website: "https://discord.com/invite/wFWB8kzQpP"
    picture: "/images/discord.webp"
    description: >
      An unofficial Discord server for the Polis User Group (PUG). See PUG
      entry for details.
  - title: "Discord: RadicalxChange Foundation"
    website: "https://discord.gg/GCKTs947JR"
    picture: "/images/discord.webp"
    description: >
      RadicalxChange Foundation uses Polis in its work, and has built several
      projects on comparable technologies. It's founding members are bullish on
      it's use in democratic processes.
  - title: "Discord: Plurality Institute"
    website: "https://discord.gg/P3wHEb2tq3"
    picture: "/images/discord.webp"
    description: >
      Plurality Insitute was founded by Glen Weyl and Audrey Tang, two big
      proponents of Polis, and sees Polis-like tools as central to creating
      more co-operative democracies.
  - title: "Discord: ZKorum / Agora"
    website: "https://discord.gg/KUUbFVNGGQ"
    picture: "/images/discord.webp"
    description: >
      See entry for "Agora Citizen Network" project, a reimplementation of Polis.
  - title: "PUG weekly call notes"
    website: "https://hackmd.io/@patcon/conversa-calls/"
    picture: "https://media.giphy.com/media/ePsV4lBfsrPmo/giphy.gif"
    date: "2022-05"
    description: >
      Landing page and weekly call notes for Polis User Group (PUG), a
      community for users and fans of the Polis software project, for anyone
      eager to explore the tool/processes, including prospective conversation
      moderators & participants, as well as self-hosted server administrators.
  - title: "Polis Practitioners directory"
    website: "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Mji1P51Q3FDWIis_F9NlrW980OtNiF9Ko5NNE3vf42I/edit"
    description: >
      A canonical contact spreadsheet of almost 400 practitioners (people,
      projects & orgs) of Polis and Polis-like software, aggregated from public
      resources by patcon, from almost a decade of working and interacting in
      the space. This resource will be used to auto-generate others. (private
      for now, pls feel welcome to request access)
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