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Better Angels' Buoy is an app designed to quickly connect survivors of domestic or dating violence (DV) with trusted friends, family members, advocates, and other allies in times of crisis.
Anyone with a WordPress-powered website or blog can install the plugin to host an instance of the Buoy app for their community or constituents. Legal aid service providers, DV advocates, shelters, and other institutions can offer survivors one-click emergency access to a network of trusted peers and/or on-call emergency responders.
With Buoy, you are never more than one button press away from the people you trust most. There is no additional software to download or install. Simply bookmark a page with your smartphone's built-in Web browser to gain instant access to your personal emergency response team. Quickly send them your location with a pre-defined custom message, or provide a per-alert message.
Buoy is currently distributed as a WordPress plugin. Installation is as simply as pressing "Install now" from your admin WordPress Dashboard. You can also find Buoy hosted on the WordPress plugin repository.
Buoy is free software. It was developed and is maintained primarily by a nomadic hacker named maymay who has a lot of fucks to give about supporting domestic violence survivors, along with a growing group of volunteers.
Even if you don't code, there's a lot you can do to help make Buoy better.
You can support development and maintenance of Buoy by supporting its primary developer, maymay. Click here to donate via PayPal, or visit Cyberbusking.org for maymay's personal donation portal.
You can also support development of Buoy by supporting the following organizations who have helped make Buoy possible:
If you speak multiple languages, you can help translate Buoy into more human languages. This helps make Buoy available to people all over the world.
If you use Buoy and are familiar with how it works, you can help others learn about the tool by writing about how you use it. We maintain a wiki that you can edit to add your own guides, walkthroughs, and suggestions.
You can also write articles on your website or blog. If you do, please contact us or email maymay directly to let us know.
The easiest way to get started contributing code is to use the Varying Vagrant Vagrants ("VVV") project to make a local WordPress development environment. Then fork Buoy project on GitHub and git clone your fork into your VVV's wordpress-default/wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Patches and pull requests are very welcome!