ADER-COV

Action for ecological development and resilience of vulnerable communities (ADER-COV) is a bilingual English and French non-profit initiative based in the Sahel region of Mali to support sustainable development. In June 2025 I was contacted by an Australian based volunteer for them to do a combination of design and deployment of a new website. Visit our website here: https://ader-cov.org/

Dot Vote Detection

For Brisbane Pride 2024, I helped co-organise a stall with Fusion Party Australia. As part of the stall we had a dot vote tally running with the question: “Will humanity survive the next century?” Passers-by were invited to place one of four coloured stickers on the board, with each colour representing a different approach. Leftmost side of the board was labelled “million to one :(” and rightmost side of the board was labelled “Lock it in!”. The four colours/approaches were: Red (“On current trends”), Green (“If we work together on inequality”), Yellow (“Using advanced science and technology”), Red (“Something else…”).

This approach combined to give some sweet multidimensional data, and by the end of the day we had 131 dots on the board across the four colours. Later the next week, I wrote a Python script using OpenCV to do separate and map the coloured dots, then construct a quantitative data set which I ran some basic analysis on. The results were as follows:

  • Blue dots: 31, median value: 17% standard deviation: 32%
  • Green dots: 58, median value: 54% standard deviation: 19%
  • Red dots: 12, median value: 81% standard deviation: 21%
  • Yellow dots: 30, median value: 71% standard deviation: 19%

Fusion Party Australia

I provide support and maintenance for the website, as well as building the new candidate profile webpages and the 2023 member drive campaign hub. See the source code here https://github.com/Fusion-Party-Aus/colourful_fusion_theme and the website itself here https://www.fusionparty.org.au/

Main site design by Owen Miller (Fusion Colourful Theme 2) written for Nationbuilder with Bootstrap 4 and liquid templating