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Code For Denver

Onboarding

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This Evening

  • Agenda (you just sat through that!)
  • Onboarding (this right now!)
  • Chat with projects/members

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We are glad you are here.

Please share your:

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  • Name
  • Preferred gender pronouns

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Who We Are

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What We Do

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Who we are and what we do

  • Code for Denver brings together creative problem solvers with community groups, nonprofits, and local government to address some of our most pressing 21st century problems through technology and open source software

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Who we are and what we do

  • Code for Denver is part of a national network of locally run civic-tech groups
  • This means we have friends in other cities who do things similar to us!
  • We’re a brigade, or local chapter, of the larger Code For America umbrella organization

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Who we are and what we do

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Who we are and what we do

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Who we are and what we do

  • We meet 1st and 3rd Mondays throughout the month online from 6pm to 9pm

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Who we are and what we do

  • Once a month we try to have new member orientation, pitches, and a guest speaker or presentation

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How You Can Get Involved

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How You Can Get Involved

  • Currently we’re looking for all kinds of talent: coding, design, frontend, backend, project leadership, storytelling, documentation, etc.
  • We’re looking for all skill levels as well: just out of bootcamps to seasoned professionals

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Tools We Use

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GitHub

  • We use GitHub for open source collaboration
  • Each project has its own repo, a setup readme, issues with tags, so you can hop right in

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Discord

  • We use Discord as our main communication tool, it’s kind of like Slack
  • http://discord.codefordenver.org

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Zoom

  • We use Zoom for our bi-monthly meetings

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The Projects

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The Projects

  • Our projects are all hosted on the organization’s GitHub
  • Each project will have a description, technologies they use, skills they need, and their status

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Starter Projects

We have a few starter projects to get involved quickly and test the waters.

  • Open/Improve data sets
  • Visualize data
  • Improve existing civic service
  • Compile list of resources
  • Create a bot

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Starter Projects

Even more project briefs!

  • Denver Events Affecting Quality of Life
  • Denver Poverty Map
  • Denver City Maps from Tourist Feelings

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Questions?

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Next Steps

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Next Steps

  • Post an intro in the intros channel
  • Research projects more on GitHub and Discord
  • Talk to projects you’re interested in on Discord
  • Come back!

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Thanks!