Are you a news nerd on the geekier end of the journalist <=> hacker spectrum? Does the idea of fixing Canada's broken Access to Information system excite you? MuckRock Canada is looking for a python coder with entrepreneurial spirit to join as co-founder.
You will help craft the bid for the Facebook Journalism Project ($100,000), and, if successful, join the project full-time in April, 2018. The MuckRock code base (python/django) is robust and battle-tested in production, but needs to be customized for the Canadian context.
You must be:
- reasonably fluent in python
- willing to take ownership of the project
- comfortable talking to stakeholders
- able to translate ATI workflow into python
- happy wearing many hats
Since no one person is likely to possess all these properties, if you're interested and feel you tick some of these boxes, send an email to [email protected] and tell us about yourself. Enthusiasm and passion for this work a must.