A question I get from students that I don't have a great answer to anymore:

Is there a place where people are discussing building sustainable/public interest/civic projects? As in talking about the challenges they face/sharing tips/recommendations, freely promoting their work to others to get extra eyes on WIP?

About one ask away from starting a discourse for this, but curious if anyone out there has a better answer.

#civictech #publicinteresttech

@jamesturk I was curious, so I asked around. The answers confirmed my impression that the conversational landscape is now very fragmented.

Good luck with finding/making a place for people to build some community! 🍀

@jamesturk I'm working on such a project and would definitely join a space like this. I looked for but didn't find a place like this a few years ago. Willing to help you create one if there's broad interest / if you want help.

Serendipitously, I'm also interested in trying out this Zulip platform which seems good to use for something like this

It's open source and has a free tier though I also suspect this would qualify for free use of their standard plan.

https://zulip.com/for/communities/

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