New Year, Same Exciting Work!
👋 Welcome
Hello civic tech friends,
Check out our recap of January, including project updates.
We’re always looking for feedback to improve our newsletter and give you the content you want.
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Stay Safe Everyone!
Hope everyone is staying safe. Remember to wear masks, sanitize your hands, and stay 6 feet apart.
✏️ Code for San Jose Updates
🍁 Leadership Changes
We welcome to the team: Alexsandra: Project Lead
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
- OpenStreetMap completed 44% of Phase 2 and 16% of the point of interest tasks.
- Project Open Disclosure built the independent expenditures page.
- Project Heart of the Valley completed two backend APIs.
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
- Software Engineer, Entry Level at Coursera
- Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2022 at Etsy
- Software Engineer I at Sighten
- Associate Product Manager at Personify
- UX Designer at The Trevor Project
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 Police Data Trust provides information about police misconduct through a searchable web application.
Open Roles: User Experience Researcher and Project Manager - 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: Jan 27, 2022
- South Bay Map Night: Feb 1, 2022
- New Member Onboarding: Feb 10, 2022
- South Bay Map Night: Feb 15, 2022
- New Member Onboarding: Feb 24, 2022
- New Member Onboarding: Mar 10, 2022
- New Member Onboarding: Mar 24, 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 Jan 27.
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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