CFSJ July Recap
👋 Welcome
Hello civic tech friends,
Check out our recap of July activities including project updates, job and volunteer opportunities.
✏️ Code for San Jose Updates
Code for San Jose received a very generous donation from the Center for Employment Immigration & Citizenship Program in gratitude for Project E-Immigrate’s work on the Citizenship & Immigration Information Tool. E-Immigrate has enabled over 1,000 Bay Area residents to apply for Immigration Assistance. We would like to express our endless appreciation for the CET-ICP team for being fabulous partners and providing us opportunities to do great work in the community.
🍁 Leadership Changes
We welcome our new teammate: Abha: Assistant Director of Project Management, Tony: Finance Manager, Rishabh: Assistant Director of Event Management, Sulakshana: Assistant Director of Project Management
Open position: Director of Fundraising, Director of Recruitment, Assistant Director of Backend Engineering,, Grant Writer, and Marketing Coordinator are available.
Interested? Reach out to Annie on our Slack workspace.
🎉 Code for San José Project Highlights
- Project OpenStreetMap completed Phase 1 of the San Jose building import and completed 31% of the high priority tasks in the county point of interest import. The team began Phase 2 of the import. Amazing work!
- Project CFSJ Website created the first iteration of a high fidelity mockup for the CFSJ website. The team is working on a minimalistic style guide with colors and fonts.
- Project City Agenda Scraper implemented Google Drive upload functionality.
- Project Renters Rights started building a user story for the application.
All active projects are looking for volunteers, check out the opportunities below. For more information and project updates, view our project listing data.
Opportunities
Job Opportunities
- Frontend Developer and Software Engineer for QuantumScape
- Open Call for Engineers for Impactive
- Software Product Manager, Software/Data Engineer and Full Stack Engineer at SunPower
- Product Manager and Mid-Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at
Callisto - Associate Data Engineer at NextEra Energy, Inc.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Backend Engineers for Civiform, DemocracyLab, E-Immigrate, Happening ATM, Heart of the Valley, Police Data Trust
- Data Scientists for City Agenda Scraper
- Data Entry for BayAreaCommunity.org and OpenStreetMap
- Frontend Engineers for CFSJ Website, Civiform, DemocracyLab, E-Immigrate, Happening ATM, Police Data Trust
- Full Stack Engineers for DemocracyLab and Police Data Trust
- Product Managers for Courtbot, Floodfinder, Heart of the Valley
- Project Managers for BayAreaCommunity.org, CFSJ Website, Floodfinder, Heart of the Valley, Police Data Trust
- Project Team Leaders for BayAreaCommunity.org, Courtbot, Floodfinder,
- Python Web Scrapers for BayAreaCommunity.org and City Agenda Scrape
Check out more job and volunteer opportunities by joining our Slack workspace.
🌏 Events
Code for San Jose Civic Hack Nights are on Thursdays from 6:30–9 pm. The next Code for San Jose Civic Hack Nights are:
🐰 That’s all, folks!
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Until next month, take care, and let’s keep up the good work!
Bri,
Code for San José Newsletter Producer
