Action Night (formerly Hack Night)
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[NOTE THE NEW 2021 SCHEDULE - EVERY OTHER MEETING IS A 6pm ACTION NIGHT, WHICH MEANS ONCE A MONTH. THE ALTERNATING MEETING IS A LUNCH SYNC]
[THIS IS A VIRTUAL / ONLINE MEETING ONLY]
Code for BTV brings together teams of volunteer citizens and technologists to create new tools for civic-oriented and social justice organizations, solving meaningful problems for our community through digital technology.
For 2021 we are starting off with a schedule adjustment. Instead of every bi-weekly meeting being a lunch meeting, we will alternate the bi-weekly meetings such that one is a virtual action/work/hack night. The lunch session will be the time for teams to synchronize and share with other teams. The action night will be a set time when teams can meet and work.
Action nights, formerly called "Hack Nights" are recurring scheduled times for teams to get together and push along project work, whatever that might mean. For teams that are in design and planning phases that may mean UX and design or brainstorm exercises. For teams that are working on an iteration of implementation, then it could mean meeting with a client or programming or event planning ... projects take many forms and have many needs. We're finding that having a set-aside time for people to put on the calendar to get work done is helpful.
If everyone that shows up is familiar with the work and teams, then we may just jump right to work. If we have new people show, we will briefly introduce what the projects are so they can know what at least are all working on.
Given the new structure of meeting during the pandemic, and reduced capacity to run these meetings, onboarding of new members will happen in a separate MeetUp event - usually only when we know we have new members that need onboarding. But we welcome everyone to attend all meetings without the onboarding - feel free to ask any questions!
We suggest you put this on your calendar so that even if you know your project has nothing for you to do for a given action night, it will be on their when the next one rolls around to remind you to check in! :)