Recruit volunteers for open team roles

[JesseTheCleric]

Dependency

• Need to recruit new team members to Guides team

Overview

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

Action Items

Creating a new role post

• 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

• 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 WIKI: https://github.com/hackforla/communities-of-practice/wiki/Open-Roles-Templates
• 1.02 [Replace with OPEN ROLE TEMPLATE]
• 1.03 HfLA: Open Roles board
• 1.04 Copy to post in CoP Slack Channels when there is an open role

  Hi, the Guides 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]
  

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Title

Guides: Open Role for: Product Manager

Issue

• Guides: Open Role for: Product Manager (PM) #171

Body

Project Name: Guides Team

About the Project: The Hack for LA Guides Team project creates guides based on effective practices at HfLA. We aim to share replicable processes across the organization's practice areas (Engineering, UI/UX, Product Management, etc.) to facilitate peer learning and allow other civic tech organizations to learn from our successes.

Volunteer Opportunity: The Guides team is looking for a second Product Manager as we pilot our new guidance on How to Make a Guide. Looking for someone with excellent attention to detail. Ideally based in the US and willing to commit to the project for at least 3 months. Does not require regular availability for the Friday 7:30AM meeting time.

Duration: Ongoing

Who to Communicate Your Interest To:

• Slack Channel Link: #guides
• 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]

Title

Guides: Open Role for: Designer

Issue

• Guides: Open Role for: Designer #173

Body

Project Name: Guides Team

About the Project: The Guides Team project is creating guides and templates from the effective practices at HfLA. The project seeks to further grow HfLA’s peer learning and iterative culture, and ultimately improve outcomes for the entire civic tech ecosystem.

Volunteer Opportunity: The Guides Team is looking for a UI Designer to improve our design system and style guide for the project.

Duration: Ongoing

Who to communicate your interest to:

• Slack channel link: #guides
• 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