Accomplishment Summaries 2021-2024

[kcoronel]

Overview

We need to write brief summaries of project accomplishments for each year of the project's life, to go on the website's accomplishments page.

Action Items

• Review the accomplishments on resource 1.02 to see how they are worded, and note the following: Accomplishments on the Hack for LA website are:
  • readable even if you don't know anything about the project
  • short
  • clearly articulated achievements that funders would care about
  • list partners if available
• Find and review all previous onesheets
  • Find all the one sheets (check Project's Google Drive resource 1.03) and link the folder to resource 1.04.03. If there are multiple folders, create 1.04.03.01, 1.04.03.02, etc. indented under 1.04.03)
  • Review all previous project onesheet drafts under 1.04 (including edit history)
• Search the project's repo for any accomplishment issues, add any links you find to a comment
  • Go to the project repo issue tab (resource 1.05)
  • review all closed issues, looking for details of your project's progress that you could use in your accomplishment summary, noting the accomplishment and date of completion
  • Put the links relevant to that search under the below heading in chronological order

  ### Project or CoP's repo issue searches
  

• for each search you perform, indicate what you searched in the filter bar to get the result and link it to the URL (e.g.,)

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• Draft a brief paragraph describing what the project accomplished for each year
• Update the epic issue (resource 1.01)
  • Add the following comment

  We have completed the accomplishments for 2020-2024
  

  • Add the label updated
  • Add the label ready for org rep
  • Move to the questions/review column on the Team Tasks project board

Resources

• 1.01 Accomplishments epic: Accomplishments Epic: Civic Tech Jobs admin-accomplishments#12
• 1.02 Hackforla.org website, about page, accomplishments section: https://www.hackforla.org/about/#accomplishments
• 1.03 [Civic Tech Jobs] project Google Drive
• 1.04 One Sheets:
  • 1.04.01 CTJ One sheet from product-management repo
  • 1.04.02 CTJ One sheet link from Hack for LA website (Overview)
  • 1.04.03 Folder with One sheet drafts on [Civic Tech Job]'s Google Drive
• 1.05 https://github.com/hackforla/CivicTechJobs/issues

[kcoronel]

2021

CTJ was launched in late 2021. The team spent their time defining requirements, securing the domain name, and creating initial visual assets like the logo and landing page UX design.

2022

CTJ commenced user research, conducting interviews with key stakeholders to inform platform development, finalized the projects Design System, backed infrastructure, and user flow. The team also made headway designing each page of the product, including the CMS system (the administrative input page that product leads will use to upload their projects open roles).

2023

CTJ successfully launched the project landing page and a visually engaging "coming soon" page to generate early interest and build anticipation for the full platform launch. Our product stakeholder requested us to include a new requirement to the project that would support organizational goals alongside two other projects (People Depot and VRMS). We launched a staging site for the homepage.

2024

More to come!

[kcoronel]

Edited:

2021
In late 2021, CTJ embarked on its journey, laying the groundwork for a transformative platform to help prospective Hack for LA volunteers find interdisciplinary projects that will be useful for their career development while contributing to positive civic impact.

2022
CTJ initiated user research, conducting insightful interviews with key stakeholders aka our volunteers to shape platform development. The team advanced the site's design and development, aiming to create a high-quality, user-friendly platform.

2023
CTJ successfully launched the project landing page and a visually engaging "coming soon" page to generate early interest and build anticipation for the full platform launch. To further support our volunteers' career development, our product stakeholder requested a new requirement in the form of a Skills Matrix. This dynamic Matrix would help volunteers assess their skills throughout their Hack for LA journey.

2024
CTJ is excited to announce that we have a concrete plan for the MVP of our product! We are collaborating with the entire organization to align our documentation with open source practices. Congratulations to our team members who have taken on leadership roles! We look forward to a successful launch in Q4 2025.

[kcoronel]

Project or CoP's repo issue searches

Completed
Done
Opportunity
good job

[kcoronel]

@kcoronel add accomplishments for 2024

[Janis-Mollineau]

Hi @kcoronel. Would any of these be worth mentioning for 2024 accomplishments?

• CTJ created a user flow that maps out the entire user journey on the website, to ensure that once the staging environment is deployed the user experience and interactions would be seamless. (MVP Flow (Desktop) #570)
• CTJ successfully deployed a staging environment to our personal cloud accounts, enabling us to test and prepare for future updates. We are also working on creating automation scripts to improve the process moving forward. Epic (Devops): Deploy develop Branch to Staging Environment in AWS #585
• For more streamlined communications and enhanced brand alignment, CTJ updated our visual styling and added more variations to our logos. We also created a reference guide for Typography, Community of Practice cards, and Illustrations/Photos, covering usage guidelines, representation formats, and design specifications. https://github.com/hackforla/CivicTechJobs/issues/؆
• CTJ launched MVP 1 with a Skills Matrix for Design, Research, Engineering, Data, Product, and DevOps Communities of Practice. Discovery Research for CTJ Skills Matrix MVP 2 · Issue #511 · hackforla/CivicTechJobs