New European Parliament – first look at key figures
First analysis of the EP after the june elections
EP2024 Coalition of CSOs
We built a coalition of over 20 value-aligned CSOs and campaigns who worked together to make their election-related campaigning efforts more impactful.
RIP Bram Moolenaar, technology isn’t neutral
Bram Moolenaar passed away on 3 August 2023. He has never been involved in our project, but has had a big influence on my civiltech and free software activist path. When you work on tech, one of the tool you are probably using the most regularly is your text editor. you use it to change …
New build infrastructure (a love letter to esbuild)
Imagine that instead of building campaigns and widgets, we were building boats. All kind of boats, sailing boats, Research Vessels, cargos, and canoes. Of course you can have them in different colors, and with special features to comply with local regulations. Now, while we’re crafting your masterpiece and try to build the sleek and swift …
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Targeting the German Parliament considered complicated
The German Parliament, also known as the Bundestag, is the legislative branch in germany. The 736 members (in 2023) of the Bundestag are elected every four years using a mixed-member proportional representation system. So you want to send emails or do a twitterstorm targeting the Germans Parliament? you’d think it’s a matter of asking your …
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How to sync actions data
In this guide I will outline how to write an action synchronization mechanism from Proca Server to a CRM. What will you need? Your CRM API – you must know how your CRM stores contacts and actions, and what’s the API to add, fetch, update these Proca actions queue address and access credentials – you …
Storm of Snowflakes: Our Twitter Action Widget
Twitter’s newest policy change could spell the death of the classic twitterstorm — but we have a solution to keep your tweet-to-target action impactful, your online supporters active, and your tweets fresh and unique. An end to copy-paste tweets Last week, Twitter introduced a change to their “Copypasta and Duplicate content” policy. Internal policies rarely …
Analytics on Proca
Tracking what’s happening in a campaign is useful for seeing what’s working well and if anything needs changing. Proca collects all of the data from supporters interacting with the widget: not only actions taken and contact opt-ins, but which widget a supporter engaged with, whether they shared it, whether their share resulted in actions. Basic …
Showcase: Petition Campaign on Proca
This blog post takes a look at running a standard petition campaign on Proca and shows you why we should be the top choice for running a petition campaign 🙂 The Basics Let’s start with an example of one of our petition widgets: Sign up to change the world! (You can customise this text yourself!) …