Recruit volunteers for team open roles

[akhaleghi]

Dependency

• need to recruit new team members to Data Science projects team

Overview

We need volunteer(s) to work on the open issues we have so that we can move the project forward.

Action Items

Creating a new role post

• Copy the template post from the Community of Practice WIKI, Open Roles Templates (Resource 1.01)
• Paste the template in a comment below
• Customize the comment to reflect your open role
• Open a new issue by using the Open Role template (Resource 1.02)
• Copy and Paste your customized comment to the new issue
• Add the label for the role that you are recruiting for
• Submit the new issue
• Assign yourself to the new issue
• Add the issue to the HfLA: Open Roles project board (Resource 1.03)
• Add the link of the new issue to the related comment on this issue
• Keep yourself assigned to this issue until the role is filled

Marketing the new role post

• Post a link to the new issue in the Slack channel for the related Practice Area
  • Copy the Slack message (Resource 1.04)
  • Copy the message into the Slack Channel for the relevant Community of Practice (The Slack channels can be found on Resource 1.01)
    • Replace the text [Replace with LINK TO NEW ISSUE] with link to the issue
  • Check your team Slack channel for people reaching out after every onboarding and at least every other day

Once Filled

• Hide the comment on this issue for the role you just filled
• Add the following comment to the role posting issue

  This role has been filled by @[Replace with GITHUB HANDLE OF PERSON WHO IS TAKING ROLE]
  

• Close the role posting issue
• Unassign yourself from this issue
• If there are no open roles on this issue (i.e., if there are open roles, there will be unclosed comments)
  • Add the label: Dependency and uncheck the dependency on top of this issue
  • Move this issue to the icebox, on the project board

Resources/Instructions

• 1.01 Community of Practice WIKI, Open Roles Templates, Secondary Issue
• 1.02 Open Role Template: see Secondary Issue Draft
• 1.03 HfLA: Open Roles board
• 1.04 Copy to post in CoP Slack Channels when there is an open role

  Hi, the Data Science CoP has a volunteer posting, which includes details of how to get in touch with us if you are interested. [Replace with LINK TO NEW ISSUE]
  

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Post from previous UI/UX Research open roles board, Filled column

Post 1

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**UI/UX Researcher**: UI/UX Researcher

**Project Name**: SEIE Survey

**Volunteer Opportunity**: Find themes on a large survey of free text columns and develop a tangible final product (slides, document, etc). Create word clouds, find themes and capture information relevant to subsets based on council region. Create a presentation to show data to neighborhood council members. 

**Duration**: 1-2 months

**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack channel link: #access-the-data
- Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Sarah Nabelsi

**Learn More**: Join #access-the-data meeting Wednesday at 5pm to learn more.

Filled: Justin and Solee

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UI/UX Researcher: UI/UX Researcher

Project Name: SEIE Survey

Volunteer Opportunity: Find themes on a large survey of free text columns and develop a tangible final product (slides, document, etc). Create word clouds, find themes and capture information relevant to subsets based on council region. Create a presentation to show data to neighborhood council members.

Duration: 1-2 months

Who to communicate your interest to

• Slack channel link: #access-the-data
• Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Sarah Nabelsi

Learn More: Join #access-the-data meeting Wednesday at 5pm to learn more.

Filled: Justin and Solee

Post 2

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<b>Project Name: </b> California Grants Portal 

<b>Duration: </b>  2-4 Weeks 

<b>Volunteer Opportunity: </b>  We are looking to build a web product for librarians. The UI/UX Researcher shall draft a detailed research plan (based on initial conversations with librarians) to present to the stakeholders at California State Library. 

<b> Who to communicate your interest to :  </b> 
Slack Name : Mihika Sahani

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Project Name: California Grants Portal

Duration: 2-4 Weeks

Volunteer Opportunity: We are looking to build a web product for librarians. The UI/UX Researcher shall draft a detailed research plan (based on initial conversations with librarians) to present to the stakeholders at California State Library.

Who to communicate your interest to :
Slack Name : Mihika Sahani