Open Source For Democracy

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WeVis publishes all civic projects on GitHub and shows concrete results: a live Bangkok election result map, an election database site, a Thailand national budget explorer, and parliament watch that tracks representatives and parliamentary votes. Projects join Hacktoberfest for two years and receive 30+ contributions including bug fixes and unplanned PRs. Maintenance practices include concise async communication, prioritized backlog labeling, extensive documentation, and boundaries to preserve maintainers’ work–life balance. All tools are open source and in production serving public data.

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