On Saturday August 11th Code for BTV is celebrating the National Day of Civic Hacking.
In doing so we are joining Code for America brigades from all around the country.
Code for BTV is the Vermont-local brigade of Code for America.
It is our belief that efficient delivery of community services is a matter of social justice.
It is one of our core goals to address injustice, caused by inefficient delivery of community services, by volunteering to build efficient digital equity for the government, non-profits, and civic organizations.
We build this equity with the modern tools, technology, and methodologies that for reasons of budget, or bureaucracy, many of these organizations do not have easy access to.
Here is a link to the national event page:
https://www.codeforamerica.org/national-day-of-civic-hacking
This year the theme for the event is "housing" in any way, shape, or form.
Code for BTV has teamed up with Erhard Manke of the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition (VAHC), and Leslie Black-Plumeau of the Vermont Housing Finance Agency (VHFA) to tackle a number of immediate issues related to websites those organizations manage.
Some more detail on the exact tasks is forthcoming.
However, we are putting out a call to all citizens in Vermont that want to help strengthen the statewide housing services to come join us for our "hackathon." The most important thing you can bring is a passion to help others and make a positive change in our society. Aside from that, you may be wondering, "do I have the skills needed to be useful at such an event?" Here is a list of the sorts of skills we are looking for:
* project management help
* visual designers and artists
* story tellers and marketers
* writers and editors
* Wordpress nerds
* traditional web developers (HTML/JS/CSS)
* database gurus (especially MySQL)
* PHP nerds
* housing services knowledge beyond the experts we are bringing in
If you are interested in helping on this topic, please visit our MeetUp page and sign-up for the event! This is important so we know how much free food to beg for from the sponsors, and also if the space we have is big enough!
https://www.meetup.com/CodeForBTV/events/252975789/
Food and drinks will be provided - although if anyone wants to sponsor the event, please reach out to me.
Hope to see everyone there!
Nick Floersch
nick.floersch@codeforbtv.org
http://www.codeforbtv.org
PS. If you are traveling out of state on Saturday the 11th but still want to pitch-in, check the national page listed above to see if a brigade near where you are is hosting an event!
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