Make Civic projects discoverable.
For research, for volunteering, for collaboration, find and contribute civic projects to a nationwide network of volunteers.
Begun in August 2019 by 8 brigades in the Code for America network, Project Index has reached out to other members of the civic community, including Democracy Lab.
The index is populated by an automated crawler that starts from the brigade-information project's organizations.json data file. To add or update your civic tech organization's listing in the index, open a pull request against the brigade-information project according to its How to add or edit your Brigade for the API instructions.
@chris (former NAC)Review the Google Drive for meeting agendas and notes: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1yaJe0QQSEw_fKljTJ719o9hQlJAKwGr5
Join the Slack that we use as primary means of communication: https://cfa.slack.com #brigade-project-index
Review Github where we track pieces of work and have specific discussions: https://github.com/codeforamerica/brigade-project-index/projects/1
Get invited to the meeting! Every 2 weeks, Sunday at 6pm. After reviewing the onboarding document, drop a request in the slack channel to be included.
For more context, feel free to read through the discourse topic that outlines much of the historical work done around this project: (https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/brigade-network-project-indexing/533)
Read the project brief for an understanding of the current product and it's roadmap: https://docs.google.com/document/d/164Osa-ArdlJppQXqhKmAGjyqaCvkVZ8ZkMg4a3Wkmlk/edit?folder=1yaJe0QQSEw_fKljTJ719o9hQlJAKwGr5#
The current mvp, based on the stories on github (https://github.com/codeforamerica/brigade-project-index/projects/2) is based around leveraging github, a central tool for most projects in the brigade network. The MVP includes the following pieces: