You have talents and skills that you can apply to your local public good!

By any method, if you think you can help, reach out via //atlas/discussions or by email to the Atlas group.

Needs:

• Food licenses as local map, with good categories
• Charting local-only businesses, including by simple directories
• GitHub Workflows to get public documents at their update frequency
• Reliable feeds for local events
• Job networks for trades
• Needs-based resource outlets
• Surveillance maps
• Current local government candidate information
• Actionable voting resources
• Questions you wish you could ask your city or its people

Don’t stop there. What Do You Need?

Atlas

• Local-only resources built on our own public data
• Directories for local-only data
• Public source documents on access for Anecdote
• Donation-driven stewardship for source projects we host
• Organized through local in-person networking
• Not for bots or search engines

Anecdote

• QR-serialized public services
• Passive public polling
• Ask questions about public documents
• Subscribe to arbitrary information updates
• Mobile reading assistant
• Offline-ready

ANTIBODY

• Markdown-powered static sites with github.com as CMS
• Free public hobby writing platform
• Individuals or groups, Pull Request journalism hubs
• Embraces living drafts
• Activity history by important date ranges
• Paragraph history over time
• Display outdated archival text with aware UI
• Sitemaps per author
• Vendorless design
• Image/audio exhibits
• Accessibility for everyone