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This weekend more than 30 people came together over two days to learn more about, work with and improve some free open source tools for running online campaigns in Canada.

There aren’t a lot of website tools for organizations in Canada looking to create effective online petitions, build their email lists or put supporters in touch with their Members of Parliament.  Make Poverty History Canada has helped develop open source software to do exactly these tasks, and wants to share it with other organizations for free.

So Make Poverty History sponsored a workshop for activists to learn more about the tools on Saturday at the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto.  A Hackathon was organized for the Sunday, where open source software developers gathered to work with the code to improve it, learning and sharing with each other in the process.

Here’s a few key learnings from the weekend Continue Reading »