Joining the Team

DRAFT NOT YET FILLED OUT

Introduction

Welcome to the BOP team! This guide will help get you up to speed on what you need to know to get started as a project team member.

Let's go!

If you have not read the Guide for New Volunteers, please do so.

Read Introduction to the Project if you haven't already read it.
Join our slack communities Code for America & Hack for LA
Join us on the team's slack channel Code for America and introduce yourself.
Slack our PM Sam or Serena with your Gmail address.
Accept your Google Drive invite to access the shared folder.
Add yourself to the Team Roster and inform PM after you have done so.
Review the Glossary.
Attend our weekly meetings on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. You can find the links on our project board in the first column on a card called Team Meetings

Who are you?

Click the link that applies to you to find a sequence of immediate action steps:

Web Developer - we currently are not onboarding this role. please fill out this interest form and we will be in contact when we start recruiting for this role.
UI/UX Designer
Data Scientist
Content Writer
Product Manager/Owner
Other Volunteer

If you would like to join another project staffed by Hack for LA, please see Hack for LA's Getting Started guide.

Accessibility standards

Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires that all websites be accessible to people with disabilities. The World Wide Web (W3C) Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA function as the current legal standard for website accessibility.

Get acquainted with accessibility: https://www.ada.gov/pcatoolkit/chap5toolkit.htm