OpenAustralia Foundation

Transforming democracy in Australia with and more.
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[OpenAustralia Foundation @OpenAustralia]

https://t.co/M9d0064JO3 played a crucial role in the Federal election. With so many claims made on sitting MPs stances, this was one of the few ways to cut through the noise and disinformation and see how they actually voted in parliament. Please support https://t.co/iajZKajP7o

[OpenAustralia Foundation @OpenAustralia]

Our democracy needs you!
Last chance to make your tax deductible donation for EOFY: Chip in to help us keep vital services going https://t.co/yhWf6R5LAP A small number of ordinary humans can help do great things #openaustralia #rightoknow #theyvoteforyou #planningalerts

[Matthew Landauer @matthewlandauer]

It's my least favorite thing in the world - asking for money but if you value OpenAustralia Foundation's work and our financially self-sabotaging independence then please support us https://t.co/0kWOpYvOSk

[OpenAustralia Foundation @OpenAustralia]

Civic infrastructure for the informed local citizen in Australia - help keep Planning Alerts running for the next 12 months. Donate $15, $50 or whatever feels right to you.

https://t.co/aAfbXjw2BI

[Amanda Wilson AM @AmandaAtLarge]

Democracy is grand, but so are organisations like @OpenAustralia that help keep the wheels turning. They need your support

[OpenAustralia Foundation @OpenAustralia]

Read the final installment in Sabina Popin's three part series on applying research service design to improving Planning Alerts. There's real gold here.

https://t.co/MWjt0pAZid

[OpenAustralia Foundation @OpenAustralia]

Service designer Sabina Popin dives into recent research, testing and insights aimed at enhancing your #PlanningAlerts experience.

Find out how service design is done in practise in part 2 of this 3 part series

https://t.co/AFvwgoOcTx

#planningalerts #servicedesign #research

[OpenAustralia Foundation @OpenAustralia]

We currently use https://t.co/hiXtRC9X8T to accept donations. It's worked pretty well for us and was a great improvement in terms of reliability and ease of use from using https://t.co/bUuIKAiOBf before.

Is it still the best thing for us to use this year? Suggestions please!

[OpenAustralia Foundation @OpenAustralia]

We're also working on a complete visual redesign for Planning Alerts. It's going to be a big change but a good one. Take it away from the 1990s vibe that it's got going on right now. 😱 We'll have some sneak peeks to share hopefully soon

[OpenAustralia Foundation @OpenAustralia]

For the last few months our focus has been on improving https://t.co/BkQ0OMB5Xt. We've modernised the code-base, made lots of small and large performance improvements and migrated from mysql to postgres to enable further optimisation and new features.

A short 🧵

[OpenAustralia Foundation @OpenAustralia]

We've also had the pleasure of bringing Sabina Popin in to our team for a few months to bring her service designs skills to work on Planning Alerts.

The first of a three part series on what she did and found:

https://t.co/Z5jZ0ccvAU

[OpenAustralia Foundation @OpenAustralia]

It's end of financial year and we'll be running a fundraiser in the coming weeks. We haven't done this in two years.

After that we'll be going properly quiet here on Twitter. You will find us over on https://t.co/N9kDnEiCI6. Hope you can keep up with us there.

[OpenAustralia Foundation @OpenAustralia]

Service Designer and Researcher, Sabina Popin joined us temporarily to help improve Planning Alerts. Read the ins and outs in the first part of this three part series "Journey to Improving Planning Alerts: A Service Designer’s Perspective" https://t.co/Z5jZ0cd3qs

[OpenAustralia Foundation @OpenAustralia]

It would be dreamy to be able to do more of this. We will if we can.

[PlanningAlerts @PlanningAlerts]

Joanna Hill, Service Designer and Researcher, writes about her experience and methods of digging around in PlanningAlerts' email inbox to understand the experience of people using the service https://t.co/7iotP2a0zq

[OpenAustralia Foundation @OpenAustralia]

Lovely!

[OpenAustralia Foundation @OpenAustralia]

Hopefully people will try it out lots in the next few days and see how it works for them

[Matthew Landauer @matthewlandauer]

We've just added automatic social cards to the people comparison page on https://t.co/AjOG7RkPhX
It's a little flaky because they're generated on the fly and the don't always immediately appear but it's a start!
https://t.co/bf1q8G2iMJ

[(slightly less) angry not anxious @CressidaHall]

Another excellent tool in our citizens’ democracy box from @OpenAustralia

[OpenAustralia Foundation @OpenAustralia]

Please let us know what you think and what can be improved!

[They Vote For You @TheyVote4You]

Compare how two people have voted in parliament. It's brand new! From any person page on https://t.co/8BXDHvgoXp click "Compare their voting record with someone else's"

[OpenAustralia Foundation @OpenAustralia]

Thank you for saying nice things

[They Vote For You @TheyVote4You]

We've added quotes from you to the landing page of https://t.co/8BXDHvgoXp @_sarahwilson_ @somespookyghoul @kangaloonatic Kassia Byrnes @thedannyferg @heyamaze - firstly thank you! If anything doesn't look right please let us know

[They Vote For You @TheyVote4You]

AND... we're back up. Oops, sorry for the interruption in service. Did something happen? Oh yeah...