July 2018

Hack Michiana Meeting Minutes - July 12, 2018

Official Meeting Minutes

• Code for America - new possibilities and responsibilities

• New Code of Conduct (https://github.com/codeforamerica/codeofconduct)

• Contract of Engagement - tabled for next meeting due to lack of members attending current meeting

• Discussed new roles

• Day of Civic Hacking

  • Space for the Day of Civic Hacking event

    • LV person Josh Wells will be unavailable until the 18th, so Taylor talked to Jay VanderVeen (chair of IUSB Soc/Anth dept.) and secured the space

  • Need to appeal to programmer types, but also IUSB students, etc.

  • EcoOwl - we might want to get a big vinyl banner for the day of the hackathon

  • Ideas

    • Who We Are

    • Examples of other projects created during Day of Civic Hacking events

    • Design thinking for the city?

    • Discuss projects on CFA's website (http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/showcase)

    • Vacant lots - digitize the paperwork relating to volunteer signups?

    • Design Camp

      • Animal Shelter App

      • Infograph about vacant lots

        • contact, process,

        • Prefilled forms?

• Mapping workshop

  • Spreadsheets -> Maps

  • event planned for after the hackathon is finished

TO-DO

• Put new donation link on website

Meeting end: 18:04

Unofficial Business

Hot Topics

• Quorum needed to create team contract

• Member Letter of Engagement and Commitment

  • accountability

  • position tasks on github

• Hackathon on 2018-08-11

  • maybe make it our mapping class?

• Lunch-n-learns with public officials

Parking Lot

• Local Variables

  • Merge

  • Local Variables integration/joint events

• Training Videos

  • video production

• Video recordings of events

  • Start recording regular meetings

• Connect with more non-profits

• Member KPIs? Accountability

• Tasks on GitHub

• Lunch 'n' learns with public officials

• Recommendations for future collaborations

• Problem -> Observation -> Effort -> Understanding

• Consultation, *not* hosts

• Find another organization to host/maintain projects (Liaisons)

NDoCH Agenda

• 10am - 11am set up

• 11am - 12pm Briefing

  • Who are we? What are we aiming to do?

  • Who are you? What perspectives are you bringing to the table?

  • Mini-talks about CfA projects

    • Have 3 or 4 people conduct research into a CfA brigade project and give 5-10 minute presentations about them

• 12pm - 2pm Civic Problem Open Forum

• 2pm Lunch Break

• 3pm Mapping 101 Training

• 4pm - 6:30pm - Break into teams and gather information on civic problems discussed in the forum?

• 7pm Conclusion