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Welcome to the polis wiki maintained by Civic Tech Toronto Polis group!

About polis

Polis is a tool aim to connect people through the internet and encourage individual efforts that contribute to the overall well-being of our society. This is in direct contrast to the harmful and unproductive nature of some social media platforms.

Useful links:
🚀 Polis official website and hosting
🔗 Our polis repository on GitHub
🗃️ Meeting notes of the polis group
✨ BotPolisCodeHelper - Poe an assistant with knowledge of the Polis codebase
🔍 A demo Polis conversation (QR code) to get a hand on experience with Polis

Short cut to wiki

🧭 Tutorials
📹 Blog
👨‍🏫 Blog HOW-TO
💻 Deployment HOW-TO
👨‍💻 Developer manual

About us

We believe that facilitating collective intelligence and fostering mutual understanding within communities is essential for our community. Polis is a good engagement tool for large-scale, open-ended feedback gathering.

Communication

We host in-person meetings every Tuesday at CivicTechTO hacknights . We on rare occasions host hybrid (ask on slack if interested) .

• In hacknight, we will have:
  • Short introduction of attending members
  • Stand-up meeting
    • Report progresses since last hacknight
    • Teams announce their agenda of the night
    • Request for help or propose to support
  • Teams breakout
  • Ramp-up
    • Teams exchange the summary of the night
    • Teams exchange the action items to be followed up next week

We have teams working on:

1. (Polis in Practice) Apply Polis in different scenarios to foster mutual understanding
2. Improve Polis in tech stack and user experience

We chat between meetings on the CivicTechTO Slack

• Sign up and join the #polis channel

Methodology

Agile development based weekly iterative development.

• All action items should breakdown into small tasks that can be down within a day.
  • If breakdown cannot be done within the hacknight, breaking down will be the action item.
• A draft of agenda should be announced before the hacknight in slack channel #polis.
• A summary of meeting notes of the hacknight should be shared after meeting in slack channel #polis.

Knowledge management

We have knowledge base in HackMD.

We have meeting notes of hacknights in Google Document.

We organize helpful information in the Wiki here for our developer and new members as their reference.