Case ID: CASE-LLE-2025-011
One person, one year, one website and 500+ pages. The art of small project scope was demonstrated by the Civic Tech Toronto Archive project.
Key Insight: Small scope. One step at a time, keep making progress through the balance between work and break. One person and an Obsidian editor compiled information into GitHub pages using static web template. This project is done.
For March 2026, this issue we focused in TheBlueprint itself. Because we spent too much time on those experiments including quarterly event and project planning tool that integrates our knowledge base to make knowledge more accessible, more consumable, and more collectable. This month we had 4 cases and 1 analysis
Case ID: CASE-LLE-2026-005 Executive Summary How do community projects avoid reinventing the wheel? This reveals our experiment before the Knowledge Party (CASE-LLE-2026-004) for grassroots civic tech initiatives — moving from overly formal academic formats, hard work chroniclers, through AI-powered interview bots, to a low-barrier physical "knowledge party" format where
Article ID: AN-LLE-2026-004 Abstract: Building a community platform is the easy part — keeping it running is harder, and more important. Most platforms shut down because the people running them got tired and burned out. Three types of work never stop: fixing emergencies, doing regular check-ups, and making small improvements. The
Case ID: CASE-LLE-2026-004 Executive Summary We are organizing Knowledge Party – a collaborative knowledge-documentation session. Born from the frustration of hard-won civic experience disappearing after attempts, it evolved through multiple iterations — from academic papers idea to sticky-note-and-AI hybrid workshops — into a lightweight, replicable model for cross-city knowledge sharing.