Civic Hack & Map Night Featuring Notifica

Come learn about Notifica, the first app to prepare undocumented immigrants and their families against deportation. Natalia Margolis, founding engineer, will share how Notifica helps undocumented immigrants to quickly activate their support networks and notify friends, family and lawyers in an encounter with ICE.

About the speaker, Natalia Margolis:
With a background in grassroots movements and nonprofits, Natalia Margolis is passionate about building technology that empowers people to organize and advocate for justice. Natalia is a founding engineer of Notifica, an app for undocumented immigrants to quickly activate their support networks and notify friends, family and lawyers in an encounter with ICE. She has also mapped eviction data with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, and was part of the BBC 100 Women project aiming to address gender diversity in Tech. As a software engineer at Mapbox, Natalia works on creating a searchable data model of the world.

Join us for Code for San José civic hack night where volunteer makers, designers, developers, and subject matter experts who come together to use tech to solve civic problems.

Once a month we also get together with the Open Street Map community to talk about and collaborate on map editing /open street mapping projects.

All are welcome! Technical skills are not required to contribute. We hold Civic Hack Nights twice a month where members use their skills to make San José, and the South Bay, a better place.

• Food will be provided thanks to our generous sponsor Microsoft. Bring your ideas, enthusiasm, and if you can, a laptop.

• Learn more about our current projects (http://www.codeforsanjose.com/docs/projects/).

• Location - we are meeting at Action Spot co-working studio space (http://www.myactionspot.com/)

Agenda:

• 6:30 - 6:55 PM: Mingling, chatting, food provided

• 6:55 - 7:00 PM: Welcome & Speaker Introduction

• 7:00 - 7:15 PM: Featured Speaker Natalia Margolis, engineer with Notifica.

• 7:15 - 7:20 PM: Group introductions

• 7:20 - 8:45 PM: Work on projects in teams or as individuals

• 8:45 - 9:00 PM: Share progress with group and wrap-up

We've found it helpful to be clear on what Code for San José is, and what it isn't:

Code for San José is:

• a place people gather to work on open-source projects that benefit our community

Code for San José isn't:

• an organization that teaches people how to code

• always prepared to pair you with a project on day one. That said, it's a good idea to look through the open data (http://www.codeforsanjose.com/docs/data/) available to us and our projects (http://www.codeforsanjose.com/docs/projects/), and start thinking about a project you might find interesting to work on.

BEFORE the meeting:

• Check out our updated list of projects (http://www.codeforsanjose.com/docs/projects/) and their needs.

• Join the slack channel (https://slackin-c4sj.herokuapp.com/) and check out our github (http://github.com/codeforsanjose).

• Review the Code of Conduct ( http://www.codeforsanjose.com/codeofconduct.html ).

• What to bring

• If you have a laptop, bring it.
• Notebook
• Pen or pencil

• At your first meeting, we'll give you an overview of the organization and tell you about on-going projects some members are leading.