Jim Cupples is a technologist from Springfield, Oregon, whose work has primarily been in creating and organizing public datasets. Jim is a cofounder of the site Run For Office, an address searchable political database that now holds over 150,000 elected offices and remains available to the public for free. Since 2019 Jim has focused his attention on creating tools to help farmers, and also to promote local food sources that use sustainable/regenerative methods. Jim recently cofounded All The Farms, a new project that allows users to find local farms and filter on farming practices. Jim frequently works with Oregon State University computer science students on their yearlong capstone projects, which often involve regenerative agriculture.
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