It’s pretty good. It’s accountability in itself.
I wouldn’t say it’s partisan, but of course, it’s not the usual acquaintances of human right groups, of course.
It’s got Fan Chou in it, so there’s some original thinking. [laughs]
It’s a very diverse organization, but it’s definitely not pro-DPP. I can say that.
Yeah, it’s called Vote Taiwan now, because they got the money from branding. The visual design and the branding is part of that brand.
"Vote Taiwan?" ( https://councils.g0v.tw/ )
OCF was set up so that each community doesn’t have to hire an accountant by itself.
That’s right.
Like 10 US dollars every month.
Sure.
I don’t know, but it’s really similar. Our New York workshop was, I think, also Awesome-funded.
The Awesome Fund, the same thing.
Anonymously, with no strings attached.
It is someone who’s very rich from crypto donating suddenly to a bunch of, like the Software Freedom Conservancy, and really important infrastructure, open source projects.
The Pineapple Fund.
It’s the Pineapple Fund.
Yeah, this hour is chosen so that people are all joining as volunteers. None of this is our day job.
Avross is staff, but she joins vTaiwan in her non-paid time.
Things.
Sure. Like MG, when she came, I think you talked about this at some point.
Pizza.
Yeah, the whole space, but especially that room is dedicated for civic tech.
Because this space is dedicated for civic tech for the next four years, anyway.
The people do bring a large variety. Shida Lu contributes a lot. That’s our chef.
No, no, we’re having an office hour. We are on the record. We’ll be making a transcript, and the office hour has been going on for almost 50 minutes, which means that it will end in about 10 minutes.
Wow.
That’s how they run it.
Yeah, like the MoeDict hackathon.
“If you put money in, pizzas will grow out of it.”
Well, pizza. It says on the tin.
They work pretty well, actually.
As a matter of fact, we do.(a donation box) [laughs]
She gave a talk about it.
The community in general.
It’s OK.
That’s right, exactly.
There’s a word for everything.
Yeah.
They have a word for it. It’s called social bricolage.
She pick up the Go sticker, and then go for it.
Like Python, Ruby, and Go.
Because they are not classified as disabled, they don’t get disability benefits.
Deaf in one ear.
Exactly. That’s the kind of people I’m talking about.
That’s right, that’s right.
That’s exactly right. That’s exactly right.
The great thing about g0v is that there’s always a bunch of newcomers, not knowing anything about anything, and saying, “We’re just constantly going to do that, and we will hold them in a holding space.”
Very much so, yeah.
Yeah, it’s small world networking.
No, because everybody’s doing it, mixing it at a different way.