This is a simple application for "progressive timekeeping" – keeping track of speaking time by categories of identity (e.g. sex, gender, racial identity, power position, etc). It can be used to help people think about whether or not speaking time in their organization's meetings is in fact equitable.
To use, set up the categories you'd like to track in the settings. Then, press the button when someone identifying with that category speaks, and press it again when they finish. Multiple categories can be activated at once. This app can run on a phone or laptop, and could be part of the role of a timekeeper, alongside facilitators or stack keepers.
Inspired by this visualization by numeroteca.
Please send feedback, suggestions, or ideas to cfd@media.mit.edu or @cdetar.
Find this application running here: http://time.byconsens.us.
This app runs on Node v0.6.x, and is written primarily in coffeescript.
Clone the repository locally. In the repository directory, install node dependencies:
$ npm install
Make sure coffee-script is installed globally, so we get access to the cake command:
$ npm install -g coffee-script
Run the server with:
$ cake runserver
The server is now running on localhost on port 8000. Or specify the port:
$ cake --port 8001 runserver
Currently, it's deployed on Node for convenience of asset compilation; it's essentially a static app. The main business for this app lives in the following files:
lib/server.coffee <-- ultra-simple node server for compilation assets/js/frontend.coffee <-- backbone.js based user interface views/index.jade <-- templates assets/css/style.stylus <-- styles
Install fabric, and then deploy as a static app to a remote server with one command:
$ fab deploy:dest='/path/to/remote/dir' -H example.com --user=username
This will build everything as static files, then rsync them to:
username@example.com/path/to/remote/dir
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