Code With Aloha
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Get series on people's calendar |
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Did some looking, and there is a set of links at the bottom of this page: https://www.meetup.com/code-with-aloha/events/calendar/ to subscribe to an iCal/RSS feed. At least the feature is supported by Meetup, but it definitely isn't easy to find. |
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Reduce Onboarding manual steps: make Slack community joining self serve, reinvest saved organizer energy into implementing initial engagement steps |
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I've set up a DNS record under |
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slack.codewithaloha.org doesn't resolve for me |
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still doesn't |
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It worked for me today - mind trying again? Maybe it just took a bit |
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Works now on my mobile connection. Will reconfirm on my home fiber, that's the place it wasn't |
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Reducing GitHub hurdles, increasing momentum toward first commit |
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Follow-up email for people who show potential to be contributors How might we time an email to their inbox
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I like the idea of paring folks up with a buddy, as a fairly new member one of the biggest hurdles is just being a bit intimidated by the code base and not really knowing how the sites work currently, how to test, and it would be really helpful to have someone that's assigned to help you since you can feel like you're bugging the same people over and over again. Or maybe if not a buddy like an office hour or something, though there's scheduling issues with that I suppose. |
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Another note from @JerryIsdale: 
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Originally the 3rd meeting was a zoom meeting, but we found that since more people came to the in-person meetings, no one showed up to the zoom meeting. If we go down to two meetings, which meeting would be available to remote volunteers? |
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Discussion about our priorities when taking on a project:
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Attending some flavor to this bullet point and breaking it out of a Slack chat: The way I've framed the projects we work on to new members to the group are that the projects we work on impact everyone that lives here (essentially meaning that all the projects have some government tie-in, as "government" is the body that we as a society collectively decide to live under). The disconnect that I've had with some past project proposal is that non-profits / private entities conceptually do not have to serve everyone, but in some cases they intuitively do. Basically in my mind when taking on projects - is the work we are doing creating a lasting and sustainable difference in our community? Or are we just making something shiny for the short term feel good aspect. And to end my rant, there is no silver bullet here. The projects we take on will almost always be a blend of idealism (long term impact... like multiple generations impact) and the practical (less problems right now, yay!). But I like to think that we try to steer the group towards the former and not the latter 😅 A side effect of which to be honest that is probably resulting in less engagement in this group too lol |
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Overview
Hello, Friends 🖌️ . Once again our upcoming quarterly brigade planning meeting is arriving. This discussion post serves an opportunity to open the floor to any potential feedback and improvements into the group's operations and direction, and is meant to serve as a platform of things to talk about, and is open for anyone to contribute/suggest any comments/concerns/improvements. 🚀
Topics
Reducing Meeting Schedules
Currently, we have 3 regular meetings scheduled (first 3 Mondays of the month). This proposal scales back the meetings that we have, cutting one of the regular monthly meetings to two:
The end goal for the meetings is to get people engaged so more project work can get done, but we aren't seeing more people get engaged (regularly attend the meetings), so the work output takes a hit since a few of us are more focused on dealing with scheduling/organizing meetings rather than just doing work.
This would scale back our monthly meetings from 3 to 2, with them being spaced out by a week (more recovery time 😆 ).
Personally, I've also scaled back the UIPA.org project workdays to once every two weeks for the same reasons.
Remote/External Volunteers
So far, we've mostly been taking in and onboarding volunteers residing in Hawaii. The intake of these volunteers has typically been through word of mouth, and the attending of newcomers through some of our Meetup events. Roughly speaking, around 5-10 new faces a month (with a much more questionable retention rate).
From discussions with a few of the other brigades in ACT, there has been some success with taking in external/remote volunteers. To experiment with this, I have previously set up a profile on DemocracyLab and put a few of the group's projects on the platform. This has resulted in a few people reaching out every month since in offer to volunteer with some of the projects.
This does add an additional management burden, because product management will have to occur remotely over multiple time zones.
Volunteer Oriented Outings & Rewards
In the past few years, we've gone on a few group field trips, with the most recent one being a trip to a honey tasting included bee farm tour.
Traditionally, these outings have been open to all who wish to participate - extremely consistent members and first timers alike.
One of the many pictures:
The purpose of these outings has been to reward existing volunteers, attract new ones, and increase team camaraderie. Due to the "reward" being spread to all these different groups, it has resulted in everyone getting a little slice. A proposal here would be to double down on rewarding the more consistent volunteers, in particular those who help host meetings. These might occur less frequently, but with more investment towards the reward.
For the less consistent volunteers, we will still be enticing them in the following ways:
Fundraising with Swag 😎
Now that many of our projects have some sort of branding, we can use that as a way to both raise funds and increase awareness of our initiatives.
We've already done some experiments with project related merch, for example the latest experiment:
Not only does this help us raise some funds to keep our projects rolling and fund group operations, but it also spreads awareness for our projects in a very cool way 😎 .
There are sites that provide this as a white label service (i.e. https://printful.com/ or https://printify.com/) - perhaps we can leverage one of these platforms and have an easy way to distribute some product merch :)
Current Projects
Surveying the existing landscape, our current projects consist of:
We should talk about how each of these are going, and any existing work items that need to be done.
Our Wins
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