I'll soon be starting a new job with a non-profit organization, The Open Planning Project. I'm still trying to get a handle on the exact goals of the project, as the history of TOPP has involved several subprojects, and the project I'm working on is both complementary to the other projects (which are primarily about participatory urban planning) and also a new direction. The short form of the mission seems best described as creating a Sourceforge for community organizing, which covers a lot and seems to be pretty accurate. I haven't yet figured out how to concisely explain it to friends and family members who aren't programmers.

I'm pretty excited about it; all of the work will be open source, we'll be using Python a lot, and the ends themselves are something I really want to support.

Most of the team is in New York City, but I'll be working from home. So if you are in Chicago, look me up for lunch or something since I'll need more reasons to get out of the house.

(I'm on vacation for the next couple weeks, but I expect my open source participation will be reinvigorated shortly, so I'll see y'all around more soon)