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Contributing

Last updated: Jan 2026

We are interested to hear from like-minded, tech savvy people tackling similar problems who are interested in collaborating with us.

You can see our last task status and priorities in our Kanban board.

Contact

We communicate and share content via:

  • Our public solarmap-nz-tech email list.
  • An internal slack chat channel.
  • A weekly meeting.
  • Our solar-estimates github repository.
  • An internally shared Google Drive.

If you’d like to get involved, you can request to join our solarmap-nz-tech email list, or reach out to our project coordinator:

Cameron Shorter <cameron DOT shorter AT gmail DOT com>

Time commitment

Typically, our volunteers contribute ~ 1 to 2 hours per week.

Priorities

For volunteers, we expect contributor priorities should be: 1. Family comes first, then 2. Work comes next, then 3. Volunteering.

It is okay (and expected) to pause volunteering when higher priorities come up. Just let your coworkers know.

Team

Core Team

  • Coordinator: Cameron Shorter, Geospatial Analyst, cameron DOT shorter AT gmail DOT com
  • Jenny Sahng, Data Scientist, Rewiring Aotearoa
  • Shreyas Rama, Geospatial Data Science Masters, University of Canterbury

Contributors

  • Rafferty Parker
  • And multiple others (waiting on permission to list here)

Organisations

This project is supported by: