Civic Tech & Design Reader

[mateoclarke]

What problem are we trying to solve?

There are has been a lot written about Civic Tech, this would be a community curated collection of articles to give folks a common baseline and and understanding of what is happen globally in the open data and civic tech movements.

If done right, it could be a good landing place for new folks and could foster cross brigade collaborations.

Who will benefit (directly and indirectly) from this project?

Readers. New civic technologists and designers.

Where can we find any research/data available/articles?

Links here.

What help is needed at this time?

Suggesting articles. Deciding the format.

What are the next steps (validation, research, coding, design)?

Collect articles. Create a Github repo

Here is a start: https://medium.com/@jbiroscak/https-medium-com-jbiroscak-how-civic-tech-volunteers-should-engage-government-staff-d3a9f8eed3bd http://codeforamerica.github.io/fellowship-reader-2015/ http://codeforamerica.github.io/fellowship-reader-2016/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ogE8XV15T-caJ4UT-q5BlzUewtZsMF0DESl-cpLqqNk/pub

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Project management

Checklist for NEW ideas :baby:

Hey, you're official! You're now part of the growing civic hacking community in Austin. Here's a few things to get started (a couple you've probably already done).

• [x] Create this idea issue
• [x] Flesh out the who, where, and what questions above
• [ ] Start the conversation about this new idea on Slack!
• [ ] Respond with at least one update on this issue within the next month

Checklist for ACTIVE projects :fire:

Let's get this project started! When this idea starts taking off, the Projects Core Team will start helping this project's lead(s) out with project management and connecting you to resources you may need. To get there, please complete and check off the following:

• [ ] Complete Open Leadership 101
• [ ] Create a GitHub repository and Slack channel for work.
• [ ] Create a README file in your project repository. This file should help newcomers understand what your project is, why it's important, and kinds of help you're looking for.
• [ ] Create issues to describe each task that you plan to do or need help with and how a contributor can get started on that task. You might start and stop a lot, so consider issues as your to-do list.

Checklist for FEATURED Projects :tada:

To have your project FEATURED on Open-Austin.org, complete the following documentation. In past projects, well-documented featured projects have more contributions than other projects.

• [ ] In your README, link to the Open Austin Community Participation Guidelines or write your own code of conduct.
• [ ] Create file: LICENSE to give your project an open license, allowing for sharing and remixing.
• [ ] Create file: CONTRIBUTING.md so others know how they can contribute.

Once all of the above is complete,

• [ ] Create an issue on the open-austin.github.io repo with the title `Add [this project] to projects page. An Open Austin leader will review this issue and post your project :balloon:

If you get stuck at any point, feel free to reach out to the leadership team on Slack by adding @leadership to your message. We're here to help you make real changes to our city.

[mateoclarke]

Just learned about this motherload: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FzmvVAKOOFdixCs7oz88cz9g1fFPHDlg0AHgHCwhf4A/edit#gid=963594345

cc/ @amenity

[werdnanoslen]

There's also the Civic Quarterly https://civicquarterly.com/

[werdnanoslen]

There's another project in Houston about getting RSS feeds together https://github.com/sketch-city/project-ideas/issues/46

Perhaps an MVP here could be something like our #civic-tech-news Slack channel

[werdnanoslen]

I think this can also be useful for #34