Recruit volunteers for team open roles

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

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• need to recruit new team members to Knowledgebase 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 Knowledgebase 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, Back End column

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**Project Name**: Knowledgebase

**Volunteer Opportunity**: In this project, you will:
- enhance Django Rest Framework for Rest APIs
- design data models and relationships,  
- develop deployment scripts
- maintain data model
- develop scripts to maintain seed data.  

Mentoring available, pair programming with tech lead is an option.

**Technologies:**
Django, Pytest, Python, REST Framework, REST APIs, Docker

**Duration**: open ended

**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack channel link: #[knowledgebase](https://hackforla.slack.com/archives/C06E5ME5198)
- Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Ethan Strominger

[Read more about the project](https://github.com/hackforla/knowledgebase/wiki)

#### When we meet:
- Friday 11:00am -12:00pm PST (Dev meeting) (**we are considering changing this meeting time, so if you are interested, please reach out**).
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Project Name: Knowledgebase

Volunteer Opportunity: In this project, you will:

• enhance Django Rest Framework for Rest APIs
• design data models and relationships,
• develop deployment scripts
• maintain data model
• develop scripts to maintain seed data.

Mentoring available, pair programming with tech lead is an option.

Technologies:
Django, Pytest, Python, REST Framework, REST APIs, Docker

Duration: open ended

Who to communicate your interest to

• Slack channel link: #knowledgebase
• Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Ethan Strominger

Read more about the project

When we meet:

• Friday 11:00am -12:00pm PST (Dev meeting) (we are considering changing this meeting time, so if you are interested, please reach out).