Leadnow contacted me while I was living in Austrlia and asked for help while I was the hed of digital campaigning at Getup, an Australian digital activism organization. They needed help getting their fledgling operation off the ground tech-wise for Canada. Being a proud Canuck and genetically incapable of not helping good causes, I was in.
The site was light, fast, and very scalable with an easily extensible codebase that was put up in record time and ran Leadnow’s online presence and core activism campaigns until late 2014.
Besides feeling good about contributing to a stronger Canadian democracy, my favourite thing about this entire project was that I did the initial work and pushed www.leadnow.ca live globally from a lovely little island in the Andaman Sea in Thailand while on vacation, digital nomad-style at a time when that was very rare and not even “a thing”.
I really need my life to be a bit more like that, more often. It definitely proved I could do remote work from anywhere despite geography and timezones.