Open Austin Policy/Advocacy Toolkit

[twentysixmoons]

Concise description: A policy packet that aggregates and simplifies the information needed to better engage everday civic hackers and outsiders to better know the landscape of Austin Open data and gov so that they can engage appropriately. ~Whew talk about a run on~

Link (more details/brain dump/alpha) Example of what we are looking for here(https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1cMlEZm_nJ0T1NFNXBvbjM5c0E). This was made by FWD. A group that host meetings, has a group hack project, and works in policy/advocacy local and nationally.

Policy Breakout team google drive is here (https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B1cMlEZm_nJ0M2gwb2l4SDVzT28&usp=sharing)

Who will use/benefit from this project? New members to Open Austin, policy peeps, and outsiders that don't know the current status of open data and open gov.

Project Needs (dev/design/resources) Projects needs people that are able to get all the policy information in a more concise format so that it can be designed into a friendly format for print.

Status (in progress, pie-in-the-sky) ~Pie-in-the-sky~

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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
• [x] Start the conversation about this new idea on Slack!
• [x] 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:

• [x] Post an update at least once a month to this issue. Use BASEDEF for ideas, but it's ok even if your update is just "nothing new happened this month" or "we saw a small increase in traffic to our app this month". If there's no activity for two months, that's no problem, life happens. We'll just label this as backlog so others know you'll get back to it when you have the time. If nobody hears from you at all in more than two months, we may mark it as abandoned so that others can pick up this idea and run with it.
• [ ] Take 30 minutes to 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.
• [ ] Create an easily shareable project management artifact, like a Civic Tech Canvas or Open Canvas

Once all of the above is complete,

• [ ] Create an issue on the open-austin.github.io repo with the title Add [my project] to projects page. An Open Austin leader will review this issue and post your project :balloon:
• [ ] Tell the City of Austin. If your idea is in a shareable format and can benefit people around the city, go to that site and follow the instructions on the bottom of the page to showcase your work there.

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.

[amaliebarras]

@VictoriaODell Howdy, is anyone leading this that you know of? Or can I mark it as "needs leadership"?

[twentysixmoons]

@amaliebarras Needs Leadership! I think this is something that could live on the web too. I've been very anti-print lately. :p

[amaliebarras]

Cool thanks! Totally agree web is more accessible and sustainable

[AllysonRosenthal]

@VictoriaODell Hi! I'd like to take this on.

The google drive linked in the description looks like it hasn't been updated since 2015. Is there a new place for all of the policy/advocacy stuff?

[mateoclarke]

@AllysonRosenthal, a lot of the updates have been going directly to the Advocacy page on the website. https://www.open-austin.org/advocacy/

[twentysixmoons]

You're in our slack too, correct @AllysonRosenthal? #Policy would be a good channel for you to jump in. Our Policy lead, @mscarey has been working with ATA on our policy priorities too. You can view it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nJZ1y4YPiNpuHpoduCIPpF-oF_qOPp8UmDswiEbN-Ts/edit?usp=sharing

Would love to talk with you more about this at a hack night too. I should be at this coming one. https://www.meetup.com/Open-Austin/events/242012779/

[twentysixmoons]

If you're not in our slack you can join here: slack.open-austin.org

[twentysixmoons]

We got started! Thanks for getting the ball rolling @AllysonRosenthal!

Join the Open Austin slack channel: slack.open-austin.org Join this projects channel here: #p-advocacy-toolkit

[werdnanoslen]

From @VictoriaODell on this team's Slack channel :point_up:

Here are the action items we have right now:

• [ ] Get the Policy question doc filled with answers + links / Victoria + various policy contributors
• [ ] Figure out how to best organize + Display information like this. / @AllysonRosenthal. I think it might be good to start building out a deck or repository of information and examples to explore. We want this to live digitally
• [ ] Get a good story/ example of policy + hacking. Austin Green Maps seems like the perfect candidate for us to tell a better story on how hacking + policy live together

[twentysixmoons]

Austin Eco-network has a civics 101 presentation which is a good start and they also created a zine: http://austineconetwork.com/civics-101/

Marking this project as inactive since there hasn't been much movement.