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Interview with Dan Lewis-Toakley, a web developer at Avaaz.org, the world's largest progressive campaigning organisation. We discuss Avaaz's theory of change, recent campaign victories, how they deal with campaigns spanning >10 languages and their migration away from a PHP monolith. Links mentioned: Campaigning related: - Live chat during Ebola crisis: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/ebola_volunteers_thank_you_3/- Studies around clicktivism. Likelihood of action after signing petition is much higher. - The audacity to win: https://www.amazon.com/The-Audacity-to-Win/dp/B002VGERAU/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 Tech Tools: - Email on Acid for email client compatibility testing: https://www.emailonacid.com/ - Framework/strategy for parallelising tests: https://opensource.zalando.com/zalenium/ Learning to code: - thinkful (programming training): https://www.thinkful.com/ - Coding blocks podcast: https://www.codingblocks.net/ - ThoughtWorks Tech Radar: https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/ Coding for good: - Progressive Coders Network: https://www.progcode.org/ - Spoke: P2P SMS service https://github.com/MoveOnOrg/SpokeAvaaz.org/hiring

