“Hutia te rito o te harakeke
Kei whea to kōmako e kō?
Ki mai ki ahau
He aha te mea nui o te Ao?
Maku e kī atu,
he tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata..."
If the heart of the harakeke (flax plant) was removed,
where would the bellbird sing?
If I was asked what was the most important thing in the world
I would be compelled to reply,
it is people, it is people, it is people.
Ngaroto
In te ao Māori (the Māori world view), Tāngata (TAHNG-uh-tuh) describes something much larger than an addressed group of people: it describes whakapapa, the surrounding network of ancestors and descendants we are connected to.
With this work we intend to follow these principles to put our people first: not just the data & analytics engineers, but those around our workplaces that know the deep details of how our businesses actually run.
These people are the lifeblood of what we do - and to keep moving forward, we need their context far more than ever.
This codebase is the React front-end of https://github.com/ciejer/tangata_local, which includes a compiled version of this application - to run, follow the instructions there.
npm run compiles the app for testing, pointing at a server on localhost:80
npm test compiles the app to the /build folder, to be copied into a tāngata_local installation.
Please log all feedback in the GitHub Issues on https://github.com/ciejer/tangata_local, where it will be triaged across the projects - your feedback is crucial to make this a useful tool for the community.