Building Open Source Projects and Community - Code for Philly Launchpad Event #4

Organizer's Note:
As part of our 2018 Civic Engagement Launchpad we're excited to welcome our entire community to this workshop!

Workshop Title:
Open Source Community Building & Management Best Practices, with James Lott and Kristerpher Henderson

Description:

Want to know how to maintain momentum on your open source project? Ensure you're making thoughtful, considerate contributions as an open source project team member?

Join James and Kris in this introduction to running successful Open Source projects and building an Open Source community. Topics will range from ‘how to best communicate with your team on slack’ to ‘common GitHub issues.’ Please come with questions!

About the Presenters:

James is a veteran of the Leverage project and regular Code for Philly contributor who spends his days as an infrastructure engineer having recently worked at companies including Linode and Platform.sh.

Kris is a systems engineer supporting one of the world's largest data analytics platforms. His passion and expertise focus on providing tangible results, along with proven solutions to enable colleagues and customers to achieve goals in many different environments.

Schedule:

6pm - Doors open, grab a spot

6:25 - Opening Remarks

6:30 - Talk Begins

7:00 - Q&A

7:30 onward - Open networking, hacking and collaboration time

9pm - Commit and quit

Reminder:
Code for Philly projects are all free, open source, and operate in the civic space.

We encourage new and existing community members to sharpen your skills and help Philly at the same time! Checkout codeforphilly.org/projects to learn how you can get involved.

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• What's Launchpad?
The Civic Engagement Launchpad is a month-long community initiative to launch public, open source, and multi-disciplinary projects. We welcome anyone who wants to engage with fellow citizens and local government. Think weekend hackathon, but with more sleep, discovery, research and time to deliver. Come see this year's Launchpad project's at our demo night on 5/22.

• What if I'm new to Code for Philly?

Hack nights are unstructured and designed to focus on working. Many project teams coordinate their attendance in advance. Please be considerate if you see a group in deep conversation. This might be the only time this month that they gather in-person! We have many other events with open socializing as well as events that provide an introduction to our community. To get started, create a profile (https://codeforphilly.org/register), join us on Slack (https://codeforphilly.org/chat), and subscribe to our meetup page. We look forward to meeting you.

• What do I need to know before showing up?

Don’t forget your computer! Code for Philly does not provide any devices, so if you need your computer to work be sure to bring it with you.

• Do I need to be a coder?

No! We need civic hackers of all varieties. Healthy civic tech projects have developers, designers, community partners, project managers/owners, and need lots of help. If you’re an experienced professional, we welcome you to contribute your expertise whatever it looks like.

As with all our events, we require attendees to follow our Code of Conduct (https://codeforphilly.org/pages/code_of_conduct/).

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Are you interested in sponsoring a Code for Philly hack night? We're actively looking for organizations to provide space for our events! Email us at 2018_leadership@codeforphilly.org.