README.md

Getting Started

1. Repository access on Sinar Project GitHub

• If you don't have permission to contribute back to repositories in the Sinar Project Github Organisation, contact the maintainer team.
• All projects should have an up to date README.md based on the README Template to describe the project.
• Alternatively, new repos can be created with the Sinar/template repository to facilitate faster updates with README details & instructions.

2. Review the Code of Conduct, Contribution & License guidelines for Open Source projects under Sinar

• CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• CONTRIBUTING.md
• LICENSE - For Code repositories, AGPL-3.0 is preferred, whereas for Content repositories, CC-BY-SA-4.0 is preferred.

3. Review existing repositories below & join the Community on Mattermost

• Get the signup link for Sinar Project Kopitiam's Mattermost platform from the website's - Get Involved page
• Mattermost is also known as Sinar Project Kopitiam the default channel is ~kopitiam. Discussions related to codes are in ~dev-talk, Open Gov / Parliament in ~openparl, & Open Data in ~open-data

4. New to Open Source? Start Here

• From Web to Data - A contributor's guide to open source Python — workshop slides to help you start contributing to Sinar's Python ecosystem

Want the full picture?

• → ECOSYSTEMS.md — Comprehensive Go and Python ecosystem listings
• → PLONE.md — Detailed Plone website package breakdown

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Details

Legend

Badge	Meaning
🟢	Beginner-friendly — no coding required
🟡	Intermediate — some programming experience
🔴	Advanced — domain expertise needed
⭐	Actively maintained (push within 1 year)
[Go]	Go language
[Python]	Python
[Django]	Django framework

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Projects

1. 🟢 Content & Open Data

Non-technical contributors welcome — documentation, research, open data curation

• awesome-dotmy-opendata-resources ⭐ — Curated list of Malaysia Open Data resources
• HumanRightsViolationDocumentation — Huridocs human rights violation documentation vocabulary
• sinarproject.org ⭐ [Python] — Website content & issues
• enabling-tech ⭐ [Python] — Enabling Tech site
• Test-Documents — Malaysian government/corporate documents for AI testing

2. 🟡 Open Government — Parliament, Elections & Representatives

Tools for parliamentary monitoring, election data, and elected representative databases

• popit_ng ⭐ [Python] [Django] — Popolo-compliant representatives database with REST API
• popolo.contenttypes ⭐ [Python] — Popolo content types for Plone
• popit_relationship ⭐ [Python] — Graph-based representative relationship analysis
• legisdata [Python] [Django] — Legislative data parsers with SayIt frontend
• go-pardocs ⭐ [Go] — Parliament PDF processing
• go-dundocs [Go] — State Assembly debates & questions
• go-electdocs ⭐ [Go] — Election data extraction from EC
• mapit ⭐ [Python] — Postcode-to-administrative-boundary API (mySociety fork)
• BillWatcher-2.0 [Python] — Parliament bill tracking
• sinar.pardocs [Python] — Plone extension for parliamentary documents
• blockedornot ⭐ [Python] [Django] — also in Internet Censorship

3. 🟡 Fellowship Projects

Projects driven by Sinar fellows and interns

• GenAI-Case-Database ⭐ — AI misuse cases against Malaysian creators
• monitoring-oku ⭐ — OKU monitoring
• sprm-data ⭐ — SPRM data scraper notebook (Pycon 2024)

4. 🟡 Internet Censorship Monitoring

Projects tracking internet censorship, network interference, and digital rights

• imap ⭐ [Python] — iMAP censorship monitoring website
• imap-data — iMAP state of internet censorship data
• test-lists ⭐ — URL testing lists for censorship discovery
• test-lists-tracker — Test list tracking for quarterly reports
• blockedornot ⭐ [Python] [Django] — also in Open Government
• hr-censorship-dashboard — Human rights censorship dashboard

5. 🟡 Freedom of Information

Platforms to track, submit, and manage FOI requests

• tumpangtanya [Python] — FOI request platform
• tumpangtanya.inforequest [Python] — FOI request Plone content type

6. 🔴 Procurement, Corruption & Transparency

Advanced Plone-based tools for tracking procurement, extractives, and beneficial ownership

• politikus ⭐ [Python] — Procurement & political elite research platform
• politikus.contenttypes ⭐ [Python] — Core content types for Politikus
• politikus.extractives ⭐ [Python] — Extractive industry concessions tracking
• politikus.bods [Python] — Beneficial Ownership Data Standards
• ocds.contenttypes ⭐ [Python] — OCDS-compliant contract transparency content types
• politikus.naturalresource [Python] — Natural resource information tracking

7. 🟡 Data Analysis & Tools

Data processing, scraping, and analysis tools

• 4cat ⭐ — Social media data analysis server
• OpnForm ⭐ — Self-hosted Google Forms alternative
• dsra ⭐ — Digital Sovereignty Readiness Assessment
• camelot [Python] — PDF table extraction library
• monitoring-oku ⭐ — also in Fellowship
• sprm-data ⭐ — also in Fellowship

8. 🟡 Civic Tech Tools (mySociety ecosystem)

Sinar forks and adaptations of mySociety tools

• mapit ⭐ [Python] — Postcode-to-boundary API
• popit_ng ⭐ [Python] [Django] — Representatives database (Popolo standard)
• popit_relationship ⭐ [Python] — Graph-based representative relationship analysis
• legisdata [Python] [Django] — Parliamentary data with SayIt frontend

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