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Join the Team
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Welcome to the VRMS development team! This guide will help get you up to speed on what you need to know to get started as a project team member.
See below to find a sequence of immediate action steps:
Web Developer or Data Scientist
- Read the Project Introduction
- Review the Development Board Prioritized Backlog, In-Progress, and Done lists to get a sense of current/recent tickets. Don't worry if you don't see anything at the correct difficult level for you.
- If you like what you see, join the project Slack channel
- Post on Slack identifying why you like this project, how you'd like to contribute, what relevant skills you have to offer, and request a short onboarding meeting. Don't worry if you're green, we will find the right way for you to contribute while learning.
- During onboarding you will complete the following required actions: receive access to project's Google Drive and GitHub repo, enable Github 2FA
- Add yourself to the Team Roster
- Memorize the README.md (just kidding). Use it to get up to speed on the codebase and workflow.
- Check out the VRMS Data Model Diagram to understand our data structure.
UI/UX Designer, Product Manager, or Business Analyst
- Read the Project Introduction
- Review the Product Brief to get a sense of the business cases and functionality.
- If you like what you see, join the project Slack channel
- Post on Slack identifying why you like this project, how you'd like to contribute, what relevant skills you have to offer, and request a short onboarding meeting. Don't worry if you're green, we will find the right way for you to contribute while learning.
- During onboarding you will complete the following required actions: receive access to project's Google Drive and GitHub repo, enable Github 2FA. (Yes, even non-devs will use GitHub for project-management/kanban.)
- Add yourself to the Team Roster
- Memorize all flows and features in the interactive Figma wireframe (just kidding). Use it to get up to speed on how the product will function.
Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires that all websites be accessible to people with disabilities. The World Wide Web (W3C) Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA function as the current legal standard for website accessibility.
Get acquainted with accessibility: https://www.ada.gov/pcatoolkit/chap5toolkit.htm