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Idealogs

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About the group

Idealogs is a new open-source crowdsourcing platform for understanding controversial topics. The problem we are trying to solve is the fundamental lack of context in public discourse today. Our solution is a repository of context built by a dedicated group of volunteers. Our team is contributing content to the site in Markdown, as well as building the platform itself in Django.

Group leaders

Tyler Friedman

Who we’re looking for

  • writers with expertise on a subject that has two or more conflicting views (i.e. any subject)
  • django developers
  • journalists
  • academics
  • wikipedians
  • anyone interested in learning django and/or markdown
  • anyone interested in improving the state of public discourse

Tools

  • Markdown
  • Django
  • PostgreSQL
  • HTML + CSS + jQuery

Relevant links

The site is live at idealogs.org, and our code base lives here.

Where we meet

TBD (looking forward to our first meeting on September 24th, 2019)

Chi Hack Night slack channel

#idealogs

@tyfried is this project still active at Chi Hack Night?

This group has not been active at Chi Hack Night for several months so I'm closing this issue for now. When you come back, please re-open or start a new one!