Civic Hack Night feat. Julia Nguyen, Founder, if me
Details
Code for San José is a volunteer organization made up of makers, designers, developers, and subject matter experts who come together to use tech to solve civic problems. 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.
Current projects for joining ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x89c27Mb8ptTZBXXuSutzRqk43GOoGQOvBuu06tfKIk )
[Map of where to park and where we meet ( https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxCGb2OaeO5uSHpoM19tOHN4M2dXbUZob3QweVFFeXM1N3BR/view?usp=sharing )]
Agenda:
• 6:30 - 6:45 PM: Mingling, chatting, food provided
• 6:45 - 7:00 PM: Welcome & Featured Speaker: Julia Nguyen, Founder, if me
Julia Nguyen is a software engineer, writer, and speaker from Toronto. Julia is the founder of if me, an open source mental health communication app. She organized mentorship initiatives at the University of Waterloo Women in Computer Science Undergraduate Committee. She is the lead organizer of Southeast Asian Ladies in Tech, and organizes meetups for the San Francisco chapter of Write/Speak/Code.
Julia is driven by the sociological impact of technology – how it shapes and redefines culture and identity. She has written for publications like Model View Culture, Shameless Magazine, and AJ+. She’s a speaker for Prompt, a community of people in tech who give talks on mental illness. She has spoken at various conferences and meetups like QCon, Curry On!, Self Conference, Tech Inclusion Conference, and Dreamforce.
• 7:00 - 7:05 PM: Q&A
• 7:05 - 7:10 PM: Group introductions
• 7:15 - 8:45 PM: New members meet for orientation. Teams meet to work on current projects.
• 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). At your first meeting, we'll give you an overview of the organization and tell you about on-going projects some members are leading.