veyepar: Creating open data about Australia’s local councillors: Our Outreachy Internship 2017

Author(s):	Hisayo Horie, Luke Bacon
Location	Collaborative Lecture Theatre CB11.00.405
Date	jan Wed 24	Days Raw Files
Start	15:50	First Raw Start	15:27
Duration	0:45:0	Offset	0:22:15
End	16:35	Last Raw End	16:57
Chapters	00:00 0:10:34 0:40:33
Total cuts_time	41 min.

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This is the story of the first Outreachy Internship to work on an Australian Free Software project.

Outreachy Internships are a way for newcomers from underrepresented backgrounds to get experience contributing to free and open source software projects by doing paid, full-time work. The attendees of LCA 2017 raised over $20,000 to fund Outreachy Internships, and this was the first one!

In 2016 the OpenAustralia Foundation built a system for you to have an open exchange with your local councillors about planning applications in your area.  As usual, there's no useful, comprehensive open data about local councillors that can be used to run a system like this—so we created it.  But there's too many councils for the OpenAustralia Foundation’s tiny team to maintain this data. This is a common problem for civic tech projects around the world.

In their Outreachy internship, Hisayo Horie build a tool for people all over Australia to keep the records for their local area up-to-date and contribute it as open data. This means the system the OpenAustralia Foundation built can actually get used, and the data can come from the people who actually use it.

Hear from Hisayo and Luke Bacon (OAF) about the Outreachy experience and their process of collaborating on civic technology across time-zones.

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