Civic Hack & Map Night

Join us for Civic Hack Night, where community members use their skills to make San José, and the South Bay, a better place. The Open Street Map (OSM) South Bay community will also be meeting to work on local open source mapping projects.

If you are new to Code for San José, please do this before the meetup:

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

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

• Watch the Code for America Brigades information video:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYzMl_HnEZU

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

What to bring to this meetup:

• If you have a laptop, please bring it.
• Reusable water bottle
• Notebook
• Pen or pencil

Agenda

• 6:30 - 6:45 PM: Networking & Food
• 6:45 - 8:30 PM: Welcome, Team breakouts & onboarding for new volunteers.

New volunteers will join the leadership team member to learn more about Code for San Jose projects. We will try to match you with a project, but it may not happen within the first meeting. Before the meeting, please read up on the current projects link listed above.

• 8:35 - 8:45 PM: Wrap up, report back

What is Code for San Jose?
Code for San José is a place people gather to work on open-source projects that benefit our community. We are a volunteer organization made up of makers, designers, developers, and subject matter experts who come together to use tech to solve civic problems. Learn more about our current projects (http://www.codeforsanjose.com/docs/projects/).

How to get here
The venue is a bike ride/scooter ride from the Caltrain Diridon station, and close to VTA (vta.org) bus lines.

Where to park:
There is street parking and a parking lot next to and behind the building.