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HFLA Meeting Agenda

June 13, 2018

Code for America Summit Recap

  • Nina, Josh, & Wes attended
  • Any highlights or takeaways?
    • Nina
      • Meeting people where they are - building in attending community meetings, non-profit/gov hosted events as part of our activities.

Governance

  • HFLA Governance & Advisory Board docs
  • Financial governance
  • Merch designs
  • Generate donations via selling?

Website & Online Presence

  • Site redesign
  • Volunteer Blogger
    • Someone responded to our callout for a blogger
    • What is the person blogging about?
  • Volunteer Social Media Manager
    • Welcoming Andrea!
    • What is our brand messaging?
    • What tasks should she be performing?
    • Who will oversee her?

Hack Night Updates

  • DTLA (Josh)
    • Existing Project Updates
      • CurbMap
      • Spare
    • Workshop Series
      • Working with Ev for a callout to find workshop speakers (civic topics)
      • In talks with Amanda for another workshop focused on user research, personas, and user stories
    • Needs?
  • Westside (Wes & Kegan)
    • Existing Project Updates
    • Needs?
  • SouthLA (Nina & Tamura)
    • Status update on location.
    • Do we have a launch date?

Projects Frameworks & Standardization

  • Open Austin's Project Framework
    • Tamura is spearheading an online version of the Project Planning Canvas
    • We're trying to get this piloted on our recent projects groups.
      • Beautify (DTLA)
      • Spare (DTLA)
      • Street Tree Map (WS)
  • Existing Community Projects
    • If an existing community project meets our project guidelines, can we support them without owning them?
    • What would this look like?

INFO: DPSS Hackathon Partnership

  • Department of Public Social Services who want to throw a hackathon
    • Nina met with officials
    • They put our name down as a nonprofit community partner for their grant application
  • More information to come...

INFO: Brigade Action Teams (BATs)

  • Brings together multiple brigades to collaborate on a project
  • Matchmaking/Project Framework
    • Lots of discussions on discourse forums
    • The idea has been floating around for creating a set of standardized project frameworks that brigades can use.
    • This coincides conveniently with our recent discussions about our HFLA project groups.
    • While there’s a lot of support for the idea, someone needs to step up to be the champion for this as a BAT project.

INFO: Collaboration with 'Code for California'

  • Merge with existing “California Civic Lab”, which was already established between Code for Sacramento, Code for San Francisco, Code for San Jose, Open Oakland, and Open San Diego - http://caciviclab.org/
  • Potential projects:
  • Existing CA Civic Lab projects:
    • Open Disclosure (visualize campaign finance data in local elections)
    • State Agency Inventory (status of state agencies’ open data)

Upcoming Events

  • National Day of Civic Hacking - Workshop
  • Civic Tech Happy Hour
    • Friday, June 29 (time TBD)
    • Location TBD
  • National Day of Civic Hacking
    • Saturday, August 11
    • What are we doing?!
  • Big Data Day
    • Saturday, August 11 (can we even go?)
    • Call for proposals open now!
  • Project Demo Day
    • By mid-September / mid-October
    • Location: where??? LACI? CCF? Other site?
    • Invite List: gov partners, npos, and special invites to Catherine & Lily
    • FOOD!
    • Presentations: What do we want them to present?
      • We need to let all the project groups know ahead of time so they can prepare presentations.
      • Nina would say a condensed version of the Civic Tech Canvas, no wireframes/mockups/MVPs necessary.
  • Data + Donuts
    • 2-day event in September/October
    • Fall training seminar, needs volunteers
  • 2019 Events
    • SCALE 17x
    • Open Data Day
      • Brigade Event
    • Code for America Fellowship Program
      • Start scoping out ideas and talk to government folks for next year.

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