Recruit volunteers for team open roles

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

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• need to recruit new team members to Civic Tech Index team

Overview

We need volunteer(s) to work on the open issues we have so that we can move the project forward.

Action Items

Creating a new role post

• Copy the template post from the Community of Practice WIKI, Open Roles Templates (Resource 1.01)
• Paste the template in a comment below
• Customize the comment to reflect your open role
• Open a new issue by using the Open Role template (Resource 1.02)
• Copy and Paste your customized comment to the new issue
• Add the label for the role that you are recruiting for
• Submit the new issue
• Assign yourself to the new issue
• Add the issue to the HfLA: Open Roles project board (Resource 1.03)
• add the link of the new issue to the related comment on this issue
• keep yourself assigned to this issue until the role is filled

Marketing the new role post

• Post a link to the new issue in the Slack channel for the related Practice Area
  • Copy the Slack message (Resource 1.04)
  • Copy the message into the Slack Channel for the relevant Community of Practice (The Slack channels can be found on Resource 1.01)
    • Replace the text [Replace with LINK TO NEW ISSUE] with link to the issue
  • check your team Slack channel for people reaching out after every onboarding and at least every other day

Once Filled

• Hide the comment on this issue for the role you just filled
• Add the following comment to the role posting issue

  This role has been filled by @[Replace with GITHUB HANDLE OF PERSON WHO IS TAKING ROLE]
  

• Close the role posting issue
• Unassign yourself from this issue
• If there are no open roles on this issue (i.e., if there are open roles, there will be unclosed comments)
  • Add the label: Dependency and uncheck the dependency on top of this issue
  • Move this issue to the icebox, on the project board

Resources/Instructions

• 1.01 Community of Practice WIKI, Open Roles Templates, Secondary Issue
• 1.02 [Replace with OPEN ROLE TEMPLATE]
• 1.03 HfLA: Open Roles board
• 1.04 Copy to post in CoP Slack Channels when there is an open role

  Hi, the Civic Tech Index has a volunteer posting, which includes details of how to get in touch with us if you are interested. [Replace with LINK TO NEW ISSUE]
  

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Post from previous Engineering open roles board, DRAFT - not ready for sharing column

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<img src="https://www.hackforla.org/assets/images/projects/civic-tech-index.png" />

**Project Name** : Civic Tech Index

**Volunteer Opportunity**:  Needs someone to continue extending Django + Django Rest Framework site to support React frontend. Skills desired or skills to learn: Django, pytest, AWS, Terraform. Mentoring available. 

**Duration**: Open-ended

**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack channel link: [#civic-tech-index](https://hackforla.slack.com/archives/CTYAKM0CW)
- Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Levi or Kevin Phan

[Public Website](http://civictechindex.org/)
[Development website](http://civictechindex.org/home)

[Current API](https://api-stage.civictechindex.org/swagger/)

[Front End Repository](https://github.com/civictechindex/CTI-website-frontend)
[Back End Repository](https://github.com/civictechindex/CTI-website-backend)

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Project Name : Civic Tech Index

Volunteer Opportunity: Needs someone to continue extending Django + Django Rest Framework site to support React frontend. Skills desired or skills to learn: Django, pytest, AWS, Terraform. Mentoring available.

Duration: Open-ended

Who to communicate your interest to

• Slack channel link: #civic-tech-index
• Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Levi or Kevin Phan

Public Website
Development website

Current API

Front End Repository
Back End Repository

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Post from previous Engineering open roles board, Filled

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![image](https://www.hackforla.org/assets/images/projects/civic-tech-index.png)

**Project Name**: Civic Tech Index

**Volunteer Opportunity**: 
**Tech Lead**
We are looking for a passionate, self-motivated Technical Lead Engineer who thrives in working across various stakeholder groups to translate business and stakeholder requirements into best-in-class technical solutions, as well as mentoring and leading software team members.

The project uses  Languages: JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Dockerfile, Shell.
Technologies: React, Django, PostgreSQL, ESLint, Code Climate, Cypress

**Duration**: Open-ended

**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack channel link: #civic-tech-index
- Slack name of the person to contact in the channel: Iffath, Maria
[Read more about the project](https://www.hackforla.org/projects/civic-tech-index)

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Project Name: Civic Tech Index

Volunteer Opportunity:
Tech Lead
We are looking for a passionate, self-motivated Technical Lead Engineer who thrives in working across various stakeholder groups to translate business and stakeholder requirements into best-in-class technical solutions, as well as mentoring and leading software team members.

The project uses Languages: JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Dockerfile, Shell.
Technologies: React, Django, PostgreSQL, ESLint, Code Climate, Cypress

Duration: Open-ended

Who to communicate your interest to

• Slack channel link: #civic-tech-index
• Slack name of the person to contact in the channel: Iffath, Maria
  Read more about the project