Sarapis

11/20/2023

The 2021 Democratic Primary for NYC Mayor's race featured dozens of candidates. To help New Yorkers better understand their options, Gotham Gazette an the Daily News came together to create a web app that allows people to select the candidates and issues they want to compare, and then see those candidates side by side -- like a car comparison tool....

The 2021 Democratic Primary for NYC Mayor’s race featured dozens of candidates. To help New Yorkers better understand their options, Gotham Gazette an the Daily News came together to create a web app that allows people to select the candidates and issues they want to compare, and then see those ca...

09/27/2021

Gotham Gazette, a news site focused on New York politics, published an analysis of New York City's capital projects that centers WeGovNYC's Databook Capital Project Directory. The story New Analysis Details Just How Late and Over-Budget City Infrastructure Projects Run by Samar Khurshid published on September 14, 2021 references the project throughout the article along with many quotes from Sarapis founder and WeGovNYC project leader Devin Balkind....

Gotham Gazette, a news site focused on New York politics, published an analysis of New York City’s capital projects that centers WeGovNYC’s Databook Capital Project Directory. The story New Analysis Details Just How Late and Over-Budget City Infrastructure Projects Run by Samar Khurshid publish...

07/02/2021

ORServices is an open source social services directory software that produces an attractive, mobile-friendly online directory that utilizes the Open Referral’s Human Service Data Standard (HSDS), so managing and sharing resource data with stakeholders is as easy as possible. This solution is built with the Laravel PHP framework and adopts a monolithic approach that makes it simple to deploy to cloud servers....

ORServices is an open source social services directory software that produces an attractive, mobile-friendly online directory that utilizes the Open Referral’s Human Service Data Standard (HSDS), so managing and sharing resource data with stakeholders is as easy as possible. This solution is built...

12/14/2020

The following post is written by Sarapis founder Devin Balkind about his work with Mutual Aid NYC during the COVID crisis. In the middle of March 2020, as the spread of COVID-19 was accelerating throughout New York City, I received a message from a friend asking me to help set up information management systems for an emerging grassroots effort based on mutual aid principles to organize people locally to help each other during the crisis....

The following post is written by Sarapis founder Devin Balkind about his work with Mutual Aid NYC during the COVID crisis. In the middle of March 2020, as the spread of COVID-19 was accelerating throughout New York City, I received a message from a friend asking me to help set up information managem...

11/24/2020

Reposting this from 2016 --> "Creating a Shared Data Model with a Spreadsheet"

Over the last year, a number of clients have tasked me with bringing datasets from many different sources together. It seems many people and groups want to work more closely with their peers to  not only share and merge data resources, but to also work with them to arrive at a “shared data mode...

09/01/2020

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 ]

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 pro...

05/04/2020

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 ]

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 …

04/13/2020

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 ]

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 reso…

04/06/2020

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 ]

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 descripti…

05/20/2015

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

Turn on, boot up, drop out.

05/14/2015

$4k car you can build and customize yourself.

The OSVehicle team wants to revolutionize the way the world makes its transportation, and today introduces a new platform that will help bring auto building to the community and individual level. Named Tabby EVO, the vehicle can be built in just an hour in a moderately equipped workshop. It features…

05/05/2015

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/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/827669-video-84-year-old-volunteer-rebuilds-sends-linux-laptops-to-africa