Metagov is a community of research and practice gathered around the mission to cultivate tools, practices, and communities that enable self-governance in the digital age. Channels: #deliberative-tools-and-interop

Civic Tech Toronto is a vibrant and diverse community of Torontonians engaged in understanding and creating solutions for civic challenges through technology, design, and other innovative means. Channels: #polis, #polis-portal, #polis-content-creation, #polis-tool-talk

Code for NL is the Dutch community of people working together on an open, fair and inclusive digital government and society. Channels: #polisnl, #polis-portal

December 2024

A more curated Bluesky user list, including people actively working on Polis & Polis-related projects. Best-suited as a pseudo-feed of user posts, via the “Pin to Home” feature.

December 2024

A more curated Bluesky user list (as a starter pack), including people actively working on Polis & Polis-related projects. Best-suited for mass-following users. (Sync’d with list of same name as much as possible.)

December 2024

A more inclusive Bluesky user list, including people who’ve expressed interest and enthusiasm about Polis, particularly on social media. Best-suited as a pseudo-feed of user posts, via the “Pin to Home” feature.

December 2024

A more curated Twitter/X user list, including people actively working on Polis & Polis-related projects. Best-suited for following users. (Sync’d with Bluesky lists as much as possible.)

December 2024

A more inclusive Twitter/X user list, including people who’ve expressed interest and enthusiasm about Polis, particularly on social media. Best-suited as a pseudo-feed of user posts, via “pinning” on your list listing page. (Sync’d with Bluesky list as much as possible.)

An unofficial Discord server for the Polis User Group (PUG). See PUG entry for details.

RadicalxChange Foundation uses Polis in its work, and has built several projects on comparable technologies. It’s founding members are bullish on it’s use in democratic processes.

Plurality Insitute was founded by Glen Weyl and Audrey Tang, two big proponents of Polis, and sees Polis-like tools as central to creating more co-operative democracies.

See entry for “Agora Citizen Network” project, a reimplementation of Polis. They are also financially supporting Red-Dwarf, a Python library reimplementing Polis algorithms, and running community calls for developers and other practitioners. Channels: #dev (for library conversations)

May 2022

Landing page and weekly call notes for Polis User Group (PUG), a community for users and fans of the Polis software project, for anyone eager to explore the tool/processes, including prospective conversation moderators & participants, as well as self-hosted server administrators.

A canonical contact spreadsheet of almost 400 practitioners (people, projects & orgs) of Polis and Polis-like software, aggregated from public resources by patcon, from almost a decade of working and interacting in the space. This resource will be used to auto-generate others. (private for now, pls feel welcome to request access)

January 2025

A network visualization of practitioners of Polis-like tools and processes. Generated from the “Polis Practitioners directory”.

Citizen Collective is a community that spun out of Jon Alexander’s book CITIZENS. There is no specific channel for Polis-related interests, but since many people are active in Citizen Assembly pprocesses, there are a high number of people running experiments or eager to discuss. Search to find past convos.