Polis Practitioners Explorer

An attempt to visualize and make more discoverable the network of people who work with Polis-like tools and processes in various capacities.

This resource is generated from a quasi-public spreadsheet directory of persons and orgs. I will share access liberally on request, but for now it won't be fully public.

Roadmap

• MVP showing network of relationships and players.
• Autogenerate from GitHub Action.
• Add popup showing info on each entry (social media, linkedin, location, etc.)
• Link to reference for each entry being in network.
• Highlight people in "Polis Practitioner" list.
• Highlight people in "Polis-curious" list.
• Highlight people by location.
• Highlight people in the Polis User Group discord (discord invite)
• Add connections with strength based on social media interactions
  • Twitter mentions
  • Twitter follows
  • Bluesky mentions
  • Bluesky follows

Development

# 1. [Optional] Download CSV and rename to `polis-practitioners.csv`.
# 2. [Optional] Generate `graph_data.json` from CSV.
python generate_json.py
# 3. [Optional] Manually remove any JSON items with `NaN` values to avoid JS errors.
# 4. Serve page locally.
python -m http.server 9000

View the page at http://localhost:9000

Acknowledgements

Code stub genenerated via ChatGPT.