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Hello civic tech friends,

Check out our recap of November, including Native American Heritage Month resources, project impact, project updates, and job and volunteer opportunities.

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🌟Giving Tuesday

Our team has been working hard to create change and solve civic issues in our community. We are so grateful for our volunteers and partners who have contributed to pushing our mission forward.

In the last year alone we have helped community members find immigration assistance with our partner CET-ICP, understand public property development with our partner Catalyze SV, and navigate local election finances through the Open Disclosure website. As part of the global OpenStreetMap community, we put thousands of businesses on the map, including many small businesses in undermapped neighborhoods.

Since 2014, Code for San Jose has been hosting civic action nights, enabling volunteers to develop their skills and transition into new roles, and working on various projects, including producing design audits for the City of San Jose and healthcare.gov and providing more accurate information on local public spaces in the South Bay community.

Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving on the last day of November, and we’re humbly asking for your support. We greatly appreciate your help so we can continue our work.

Donate today

Select Code for San Jose as the brigade you would like to donate to.

CFSJ’s Project Impact

CFSJ’s Volunteer Impact

Native American Heritage Month

November is Native American Heritage Month which recognizes, educates, and honors the histories, cultures of Native Americans. Native American Heritage Month also brings awareness to the challenges Native people faced in the past and the present. Let’s acknowledge and celebrate the critical contributions Native Americans made.

Resources

These Indigenous Women are Breaking New Ground in Tech

ARD’s Stop violence against Native women

15 Best Books by Native American Authors to Add to Your Bookshelf

✏️ Code for San Jose Updates

Joey Richardson, Director of Frontend Engineering, and our partners Monica Limas and Valdo Drozdek from Center for Employment Training Immigration and Citizenship Program (CET-ICP) spoke about Project E-Immigrate’s Citizen and Immigration Information Tool on the Civic Tech Chat podcast.

🍁 Leadership Changes

We welcome our new teammates: Elizabet: Director of Recruitment, Ranjitha: Assistant Director of Marketing, Madeline and Jessica: Executive Assistants, Michael, Albert, Saloni, and Palak: Project Leads.

Open leadership positions: Assistant Director of Backend Engineering, Executive Assistant, Marketing Coordinator, Grant Writer, and more are available.

Interested? Reach out to Annie on our Slack workspace.

🎉 Code for San José Project Highlights

• South Bay OpenStreetMap is 36% complete with Phase 2 of the San Jose building import and 33% complete of the high-priority tasks.
• Project Police Data Trust is underway!
• Project Heart of the Valley finalized the design systems to begin creating hi-fi mockups.
• Project City Agenda Scraper is working on the docker integration to deploy the service.

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

• Sr. Data Engineer at Eargo
• Data Analyst at ReUp Education
• Software Engineer at VotingWorks
• Software Engineer at Edquity
• Software Engineer, Voice/Text Communications at Swiftly

Volunteer Opportunities

• Project City Agenda Scraper is building a scraper that automatically reviews public meeting information agendas to provide exciting and relevant information to community members.
  Open Roles: Project Manager and Product Manager
• Project Code for San Jose website is designing the Code for San Jose website to recruit volunteers and demonstrate CFSJ’s impact to sponsors, partners, and community supporters.
  Open Roles: Software Project Manager and Frontend Software Engineer
• Project Happening at the Moment is building a website that helps San Jose residents browse City Council Agendas, subscribe to specific Agenda Items, and receive notifications for when their Agenda Items are discussed.
  Open Roles: Software Project Manager, Project Manager, Backend Software Engineer, Frontend Engineer
• Project Keplair is a web-based tool that recommends educational experiences to help people create their learning journey using KEPLAIR, an AI program.
  Open Roles: Project Team Leader and Project Manager

Check out more opportunities by joining our Slack workspace.

🌏 Events

Check out our upcoming events:

• New Member Onboarding: Dec 2, 2021
• South Bay Map Night: Dec 7, 2021
• New Member Onboarding: Dec 16, 2021
• New Member Onboarding: Dec 30, 2021
• South Bay Map Night: Jan 4, 2022
• New Member Onboarding: Jan 13, 2022
• South Bay Map Night: Jan 18, 2022

🐰 That’s all, folks!

If you’re hungry for more, here’s how you can find out what Code for San José is working on and get involved:

Join us for our next meetup on December 2.

To get in touch with us, email us at codeforsanjose@gmail.com, or find us on Slack.

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Until next month, take care, and let’s keep up the good work!

Bri,

Code for San José Newsletter Producer

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