Happy Pride Month
👋 Welcome
Hello civic tech friends,
Check out our recap of June activities including project updates, job and volunteer opportunities and resources for Pride Month.
Pride Month 🌈
June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month. Pride Month celebrates the contributions of LGBTQ community and remembers the tribulations the community has endured. The LGBTQ community has achieved a lot of progress, but continue to experience discrimination and violence. We want to reaffirm our support to the LGBTQ+ members in our community. We must continue to support the LGBTQ+ community and fight to achieve full equality.
Resources:
Code Academy’s LGBTQ+ STEM Icons Course
23 Must Read Books by LGBTQIA+ Authors
LGBTQ+ in STEM Scholarly Resources
STEM Professional Organizations
✏️ Code for San Jose Updates
Minh Nguyen, Project Lead, demoed the OpenStreetMap project. OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a community crowdsourcing initiative to democratize geospatial data; Code for San José participates in the project with a focus on the South Bay. OSM is a useful resource and can be used for a variety of Code for San Jose projects. Minh explained how information about buildings, crosswalks, and more, gets added into OSM. Contributions to OSM will enable anyone to use the data and see accurate, local information.
🍁 Leadership Changes
We welcome our new teammate: Matthew: Volunteer Coordinator.
Open position: Director of Fundraising, Director of Recruitment, Assistant Director of Backend Engineering, Assistant Director of Event Management, Grant Writer, Marketing Coordinator and Executive Assistant are available.
Interested? Reach out to Annie on our Slack workspace.
🎉 Code for San José Project Highlights
- Project City Agenda Scraper completed the Legistar scraper and is setting up a routine schedule for San Jose City Council scraping. Amazing work team!
- Project Happening at the Moment is wrapping up authentication and a heuristic evaluation.
- Project Catalyze SV is creating a pitch deck for funding.
- Project Police Data Trust began working on the UI and project structure.
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, Software Engineer and Senior Frontend Developer for QuantumScape
- 2 Senior Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack and Senior Frontend Software Engineer for Eargo
- Software/Data Engineer and Full Stack Engineer at SunPower
- Mid-Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Callisto
- Associate Data Engineer at NextEra Energy, Inc.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Backend Engineers for Civiform, E-Immigrate, Happening ATM, Democracy Lab,
- Data Scientists for City Agenda Scraper
- Data Entry for BayAreaCommunity.org and OpenStreetMap
- Frontend Engineers for Democracy Lab, Happening ATM, BayAreaCommunity.org, Code for San Jose website
- Project Managers for Civiform, Happening ATM
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
