Technical
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Shiny Ideas - my day-job;
a partnership. Content management systems, custom web application
development and Perl consultancy services by myself, with
outstanding web design and front-end development by Helen Lambert.
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ShinyCMS - an open source content
management system built in Perl using the Catalyst framework.
Intended for use by web developers and web designers to build sites
for their clients. Designers build and upload templated layouts;
only carefully-constrained content areas can be edited by end-users.
Simple to use and resistant to user error.
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freenode - the largest IRC
network in the world, dedicated to free and open-source software
developers and communities, with over 70,000 users connected at
any given time. I've been network staff here for over 5 years now;
a volunteer role which allows me to give something back to the very
network that introduced me to the open source community back in 1999.
Political
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Police State UK - a news
and opinion website which publishes user-submitted articles about
politics, policing and civil liberties in the UK. Our
Twitter feed has
over 9,000 followers.
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Get A Vote - I ran in the 2010
UK general election, on a platform of 'direct digital democracy'.
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Demoex UK - During my election
campaign, I heard from a number of other people and organisations
campaigning for direct democracy, in the UK and abroad. Demoex are
a Swedish direct democracy party who have held a local government
seat for 8 years already, winning a third election in September 2010
to hold their seat yet again. I got in touch with Demoex and gained
their approval to found a UK branch of Demoex.
