Mjumbe Poe

Shareabouts is an online mapping tool to gather crowdsourced public input in a social and engaging process. Using Shareabouts, people can drop a pin on a map to provide ideas, suggestions, and comments for planning and design issues. Also as a mobile-friendly application, Shareabouts makes it easy to add input on the go.

Shareabouts is used by governments and public interest organizations throughout the United States. I was the original author and continue to be a primary maintainer of the platform.

Django REST Framework CSV is a plugin that generates CSV-formatted output for REST endpoints.

I originally developed this plugin for the Shareabouts project, and I continue to maintain it. It has become a popular project, as API CSV-generation is a need more common than I initially anticipated.

In 2011, I began an open source project called Councilmatic in Philadelphia. The purpose was to make access to primary materials—bills, resolutions, and more—being produced by local legislative bodies easier to access and understand. The project has since spread to Chicago, LA, and NYC with several other cities interested in setting up instances.

I developed a method of analysis called a conversational exploration of hypothetical futures which I used to prepare for a series of presentations called The City as Cyborg: A History of Civic Technology in The First Quarter of The 21st Century.

In these presentations, I embodied a historian from the year 2056 looking back at the developments in the relationship between humans and digital technology over the first quarter of the 21st century. The first presentation was given at DjangoCon 2016, and I spoke about the process at Ignite Philly 19.