Recruit volunteers for team open roles

[shmonks]

Dependency

• [x] Need to recruit new team members to PeopleDepot team

Overview

We need volunteer(s) to work on the open issues we have so that we can move the project forward.

Action Items

Check existing issues for the role you want to fill

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• [ ] If one of these issues matches the role you want to fill, assign yourself to it
• [ ] Move to Currently Recruiting on the HFLA: Open Roles board
• [ ] Move to In Progress on the PD board
• [ ] If the issue is still marked as Closed, reopen it
• [ ] Copy the template in Resources 1.06 into a new comment below and complete
• [ ] Go to the section Marketing the new role post below
• [ ] Keep yourself assigned to the issue until the role is filled

Creating a new role post when there is not an existing issue for it

• [ ] 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

• [ ] Complete the steps and instructions in whichever PD onboarding issue is relevant to the role filled (Resource 1.05)
• [ ] 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 Open new post/issue for open roles
• 1.03 HfLA: Open Roles board

• 1.04 Copy to post in CoP Slack Channels when there is an open role

  Hi, the PeopleDepot team 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]. 
  
  Please note that you are only allowed to join **one** team - if you would like to observe this team before you join, please let the person who is recruiting for this post know you are in observation mode (not onboarding).

• 1.05 #33 or #146

• 1.06 Copy and paste into a comment below if you reopen a role:

  #### [YYYY-MM-DD]
  
  - We need a [ROLE]. Reopened #[ISSUE NUMBER]

[shmonks]

Title

PD: Open Role for: UI/Visual Designer

Issue

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Body

Project Name: PeopleDepot

Name of Role: UI/Visual Designer

Volunteer Opportunity: Designer for logo, website, marketing materials, etc.

Duration: On-going

Meeting Times: Thursday 5:00pm PST

Who to communicate your interest to

• Slack channel link: #people-depot
• Slack name of person to contact in the channel: see who this issue is assigned to and @ message them in the channel above

Read more about the project

[shmonks]

@ExperimentsInHonesty The template for creating an issue posting an open role (1.02 in the primary issue template) is missing from the CoP Wiki page? The example template given there belongs to HfLA Website project, so I copied it and created a PR for a new template for PD based on that: #311

[shmonks]

Title

PD: Open Role for Back End Developer

Issue

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Body

Project Name: PeopleDepot

Name of Role: Back End Developer

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.

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

Duration: On-going

Meeting Times: Thursday 5:00pm PST

Who to communicate your interest to

• Slack channel link: #people-depot
• Slack name of person to contact in the channel: see who this issue is assigned to and @ message them in the channel above

Read more about the project

[shmonks]

Title

PD: Open Role for: Product Manager

Issue

• 317

Body

Project Name: PeopleDepot

Name of Role: Product Manager

Volunteer Opportunity: PeopleDepot aims to provide a single source of truth as the backend infrastructure and data store for Hack for LA projects, including data about people, program areas, and projects. The goal is to serve as a repository of information for other infrastructure projects (e.g., VRMS, Hack for LA Website, Civic Tech Index, Tables, etc).

Duration: On-going

Meeting Times:

• Project PMs: Monday 2:00pm PST
• Project Team: Thursday 5:00pm PST
• CoP PMs: Friday 12:00pm PST

Who to communicate your interest to

• Slack channel link: #people-depot
• Slack name of person to contact in the channel: see who this issue is assigned to and @ message them in the channel above

Read more about the project

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Post from previous UI/UX open roles board

Open post for designer

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```  **Project Name**: People Depot **About the Project**: PeopleDepot aims to provide a single source of truth as the backend infrastructure and data store for Hack for LA projects, including data about people, program areas, and projects. The goal is to serve as a repository of information for other internal infrastructure projects (e.g., VRMS, Hack for LA Website, Civic Tech Index, Tables, etc.) **Volunteer Opportunity**: Designer for logo, website, marketing materials, etc. **Duration**: As long as possible **Who to communicate your interest to** - Slack channel link: #[people-depot](https://hackforla.slack.com/archives/C02PTACSRJQ) [Read more about the project](https://github.com/hackforla/peopledepot#readme) **Meeting Times** - Thursday 5:00pm PST ```

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 **Project Name**: People Depot **About the Project**: PeopleDepot aims to provide a single source of truth as the backend infrastructure and data store for Hack for LA projects, including data about people, program areas, and projects. The goal is to serve as a repository of information for other internal infrastructure projects (e.g., VRMS, Hack for LA Website, Civic Tech Index, Tables, etc.) **Volunteer Opportunity**: Designer for logo, website, marketing materials, etc. **Duration**: As long as possible **Who to communicate your interest to** - Slack channel link: #[people-depot](https://hackforla.slack.com/archives/C02PTACSRJQ) [Read more about the project](https://github.com/hackforla/peopledepot#readme) **Meeting Times** - Thursday 5:00pm PST

[shmonks]

Title

PD: Open Role for: Technical Writer

Issue

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Body

Project Name: PeopleDepot

About: PeopleDepot aims to provide a single source of truth as the backend infrastructure and data store for Hack for LA projects, including data about people, program areas, and projects. PeopleDepot uses PostgreSQL for its database and Django as the backend data model framework.

Volunteer Opportunity: Technical Writer - we need help writing clear, accessible, and accurate documentation on our technical processes which will help our developers build PeopleDepot and help our stakeholders use it!

Duration: On-going

Meeting Times: Thursday 5:00pm PST

Who to communicate your interest to

• Slack channel link: #people-depot
• Slack name of person to contact in the channel: see who this issue is assigned to and @ message them in the channel above

Read more about the project

[shmonks]

Title

PD: Open Role for: Database Architect

Issue

• 447

Body

Project Name: PeopleDepot

About: PeopleDepot aims to provide a single source of truth as the backend infrastructure and data store for Hack for LA projects, including data about people, program areas, and projects. PeopleDepot uses PostgreSQL for its database and Django as the backend data model framework.

Volunteer Opportunity: Database Architect - we need help building our data store!

Duration: Ongoing

Meeting Times: Thursday 5:00pm PST

Who to communicate your interest to

• Slack channel link: #people-depot
• Slack name of person to contact in the channel: see who this issue is assigned to and @ message them in the channel above

Read more about the project