In April 2014, coders, journalists and activists met in Santiago Chile for PoplusCon. This international conference was Poplus' first major event.

The aims were to kickstart the federation and to agree its founding principles; both aims were emphatically achieved!

After the conference, Poplus had defined a clear direction for its future. We'd also discussed a number of topics highly relevant to Poplus' mission of shared civic coding.

You can find out more by exploring the notes from each of the conference sessions, and the follow-up blog posts of delegates. We've linked to all of them below.

Session notes

Building Poplus

Four PoplusCon sessions focused on basic definitions and criteria for Poplus. These are the notes you should read if you want a clear understanding of the decisions that are now being acted on:

Other sessions

Blog posts

In English

In Spanish

In Chinese