Workathon: Use your tech skills for good

Put your tech skills to good use. Join us for our Saturday “Workathon”. We’ll feature projects that are using technology to help solve social justice issues that are aligned with our mission. They will be open source projects with organized issues and clear tasks for you to jump in and get to work. Our goal is to make it easy for you to contribute to awesome projects and leave the event having made a clear impact. RSVP on Eventbrite. (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/workathon-use-your-tech-skills-for-good-tickets-31642715213)

Schedule
9:30AM - 10AM Doors open/Breakfast served
10AM-10:30AM Introduction & Pitches from featured projects
10:30AM-1PM Work on projects
1PM-1:30PM Lunch
1:30PM - 4:30PM Work on projects
4:30PM - 5PM Regroup & Wrap up

RSVP ON HERE ON EVENTBRITE! (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/workathon-use-your-tech-skills-for-good-tickets-31642715213)

Swimmy
Overview: Project Swimmy connects individual activists with local organizing groups, creating an online organizing community. Activists can easily find groups near them by causes, such as racial injustice, women's rights, and income inequality. Instantly activists and group members can meet virtually and organize for collective actions such as: calling elected representatives, going door to door to discuss issues in their community, registering voters, and organizing a local campaign to elect progressive representatives. Project Swimmy provides groups the resources to recruit volunteers, and trainings and tools to successfully organize their community.

Links: README (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bXptxf_nos7lHOdOp-WEWSGkk7VjPxMzH8dKodZyodc/edit#), Dev Trello Board (https://trello.com/b/UeMUEmNh/swimmy-dev-board), GitHub repo (https://github.com/SwimmyApp)

Tech: Node, PostGresql, MobX, React, javascript

News Literacy Project
Overview: The News Literacy Project (NLP) is a nonpartisan national education nonprofit that works with educators and journalists to teach middle school and high school students how to sort fact from fiction in the digital age. NLP provides these students with the essential skills they need to become smart, active consumers of news and information and engaged, informed citizens.

Links: Website (http://www.thenewsliteracyproject.org/), GitHub repo (https://github.com/EricSchles/thenewsliteracyproject-website)

Tech: python, GitHub pages, Heroku, D3, Django