Coding for Earth

Kuno is on a mission to build a web platform that makes it easy for anyone, anywhere to see, learn about, connect with and act for Earth.

We want to build an immaculate experience for nature lovers and for conservationists through the Kuno platform for life on Earth.

We want to make it as easy as possible to contribute to a crowd-sourced knowledge of the natural world and its challenges and conservation needs. We want to make it as easy as possible for people to share their love of Earth, to build a network, to raise donations and to act effectively for Earth.

Ultimately, we want to use this web technology to make it as easy as possible for anyone, anywhere, to see, experience, fall in love with and act for our planet.

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The challenge. How to use web technology to make it easy for people to form a love for the natural world, and to translate that love to effective action for Earth.
But this isn't easy. In our early stages of this idea, we started trying to work out how you could beautifully and comprehensively present the natural history and conservation needs of any particular corner of our planet.

We were trying to work out how you could then integrate that with the incredible community of conservation groups, nature-tourism businesses, scientists, photographers, nature-lovers and naturalists who have incredible knowledge of and a passionate commitment to those places.

We tried out a few 'off the shelf' sites to help you build a site yourself, but none of them seemed to work very well.

Luckily we had some mates who can code and who gave us some handy hints.

Their advice? "Sorry team Kuno, but there are no shortcuts! Wordpress or Weebly or Square Space or Nation Builder won't do what you want it to do. You'll have to build this from scratch. There is nothing like this, so you'll have to create the code and 'architecture' for your site piece by piece."

But we had a big problem - we can't code!

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Lines of code on a computer screen - looked pretty cool in the Matrix, but were like a foreign language to us. Image: Markus Spike, Unsplash
A critical breakthrough was when we found some amazing developers who understood what we were trying to do.

It took us a little while to work out the best fit, and we had some wonderful advice, help and early development work from some talented developers along the way, before partnering with an amazing team of coders, designers and brand experts at SGroup.

Monica developed the beautiful logo and branding for Kuno, which captures the spirit of love for nature which is at the heart of this project. Josh, Javan and Harsha then worked with us to painstakingly develop the architecture, user experience and code for the Kuno Beta site.

This detailed and thoughtful work now enables the Kuno platform to present nature beautifully and comprehensively in our pilot locations, with the architecture that can now do this anywhere on the planet. The initial tools for our amazing early contributing authors have been setup, providing these people and organisations their own page and ability to both showcase their work and add to the crowd-sourced guides to the natural values, stories and conservation needs of different corners of our planet.

When they showed us the front page with the spinning map of the globe and ability to add different types of information about nature and integrate it with the map, we were so excited!

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The coders at SGroup helped bring the dream of the Kuno platform for life on Earth to life.
Now is a critical stage where we need to build an amazing experience for our small community of nature lovers and conservationists

Kuno is built on a very solid foundation of deep thinking, research and meticulous early development work. Our critical next step is to speed this up by bringing someone into our team who absolutely loves nature, understands it and is committed to the future of our planet, and who ALSO loves coding! Could this person be you?

We are looking for someone who not only can code brilliantly and work well in a tight-knit team, but has a great intuition and ability to deeply understand the needs of the people and groups who have a love for nature and a commitment to the protection of nature. We will need this person to be able to listen closely to those groups' needs and to rapidly build and test the functions and tools that those users need to help make their work more effective and to help make Kuno as useful a tool as possible.

Kuno is built off Craft CMS - so familiarity with that platform would be ideal.

If you think you might be one of the first coder's to join Kuno's team - please get in touch

We would love to talk to you!

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Do you love nature and love coding? Are you interested in joining this exciting new platform? If so, get in touch!

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