Sarapis

Reposting this from 2016 --> "Creating a Shared Data Model with a Spreadsheet" https://sarapis.org/creating-a-shared-data-model-with-a-sp/

I’m happy to announce that Sarapis is releasing a Laravel-based Open Referral Directory Solution (ORServices) as open source code! This software enables anyone to create their own community resource directory information system with a level of design and functionality that is comparable to proprietary resource directory software systems that are available on the market. ORServices offers a mobile-friendly, geo-aware directory software with search and granular filters built with [ 429 more words ] https://sarapis.org/presenting-orservices-3-0-a-complete-l/

Our team at Sarapis has done a lot of work with and for Open Referral including helping with general project IT needs, developing the Open Referral Airtable Template and the open source ORServices application to help meet the needs of people who wanted to use Open Referral but didn’t have the resources to develop custom software or pay for proprietary directory soltuions. [ 272 more words ] https://sarapis.org/building-an-ecosystem-of-open-referral/

In 2018, with a small grant provided by the Alliance of Information and Referral Systems to the Sahana Software Foundation, Sarapis developed an Airtable template of a community resource database using Open Referral’s Human Services Data Specification (HSDS). This project responded to a need articulated by many in our community for a lightweight, easy-to-use resource database for the management of complex service directory data. [ 1,397 more word ] https://sarapis.org/delivering-open-referral-solutions-wit/

At the School of Data conference on March 7th, 2020, Sarapis founder Devin Balkind hosted an hour long session about "how to build databases 'with not for'" customers. A description of the presentation and embed of the presentation gives is below: The "build with not for" philosophy has been spreading through the civic tech community for quite some time, but this philosophy tends to focus on UX design and interfaces. [ 73 more words ] https://sarapis.org/?p=4703

Open source software is the slow food of computing. Brilliant framing.

$4k car you can build and customize yourself.

James Anderson is 84 and has never worked in IT. Yet over the past two years, he has rebuilt more than 100 laptops and sent them to schools and nonprofits in Africa, all running Linux. Here's his story: http://www.linux.com//827669-video-84-year-old-volunteer-r

Elon Musk declared that "Gigafactory 1" will also be #opensource https://youtu.be/yKORsrlN-2k