Recruit volunteers for team open roles

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Dependency

• need to recruit new team members to BallotNav team

Overview

We need volunteer(s) to work on the open issues we have so that we can move the project forward.

Action Items

Creating a new role post

• Copy the template post from the Community of Practice WIKI, Open Roles Templates (Resource 1.01)
• Paste the template in a comment below
• Customize the comment to reflect your open role
• Open a new issue by using the Open Role template (Resource 1.02)
• Copy and Paste your customized comment to the new issue
• Add the label for the role that you are recruiting for
• Submit the new issue
• Assign yourself to the new issue
• Add the issue to the HfLA: Open Roles project board (Resource 1.03)
• add the link of the new issue to the related comment on this issue
• keep yourself assigned to this issue until the role is filled

Marketing the new role post

• Post a link to the new issue in the Slack channel for the related Practice Area
  • Copy the Slack message (Resource 1.04)
  • Copy the message into the Slack Channel for the relevant Community of Practice (The Slack channels can be found on Resource 1.01)
    • Replace the text [Replace with LINK TO NEW ISSUE] with link to the issue
  • check your team Slack channel for people reaching out after every onboarding and at least every other day

Once Filled

• Hide the comment on this issue for the role you just filled
• Add the following comment to the role posting issue

  This role has been filled by @[Replace with GITHUB HANDLE OF PERSON WHO IS TAKING ROLE]
  

• Close the role posting issue
• Unassign yourself from this issue
• If there are no open roles on this issue (i.e., if there are open roles, there will be unclosed comments)
  • Add the label: Dependency and uncheck the dependency on top of this issue
  • Move this issue to the icebox, on the project board

Resources/Instructions

• 1.01 Community of Practice WIKI, Open Roles Templates, Secondary Issue
• 1.02 [Replace with OPEN ROLE TEMPLATE]
• 1.03 HfLA: Open Roles board
• 1.04 Copy to post in CoP Slack Channels when there is an open role

  Hi, the BallotNav has a volunteer posting, which includes details of how to get in touch with us if you are interested. [Replace with LINK TO NEW ISSUE]
  

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Role posts from the Previous Product Management Open Roles board, Filled column

Post 1

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![image](https://www.hackforla.org/assets/images/projects/ballotnav.jpg)

**Project Name**: BallotNav
**Volunteer Opportunity**: We need an additional PM for HfLA’s BallotNav project to join our current PM team of 1.5. You will be responsible for managing the Kanban workflow, building out product presentations for external parties, and co-leading the design of the product roadmap. You’ll be expected to attend & help run weekly meetings. We are looking for an organized candidate who can put in time weekly. 
**Duration**: ongoing
**Slack channel link**: #ballotnav
**Read more about the project:** https://www.hackforla.org/projects/ballot-nav
**Project website**: https://about.ballotnav.org/
**Weekly Team Meeting:** Tuesdays at 6pm PST / 9pm EST
 
BallotNav is a navigation tool that aims to prevent disenfranchisement by providing reliable and up-to-date information on ballot drop off locations across the US. Additional information about the project could be found at https://about.ballotnav.org/

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Project Name: BallotNav
Volunteer Opportunity: We need an additional PM for HfLA’s BallotNav project to join our current PM team of 1.5. You will be responsible for managing the Kanban workflow, building out product presentations for external parties, and co-leading the design of the product roadmap. You’ll be expected to attend & help run weekly meetings. We are looking for an organized candidate who can put in time weekly.
Duration: ongoing
Slack channel link: #ballotnav
Read more about the project: https://www.hackforla.org/projects/ballot-nav
Project website: https://about.ballotnav.org/
Weekly Team Meeting: Tuesdays at 6pm PST / 9pm EST

BallotNav is a navigation tool that aims to prevent disenfranchisement by providing reliable and up-to-date information on ballot drop off locations across the US. Additional information about the project could be found at https://about.ballotnav.org/

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Post from previous UI/UX Research open roles board, Filled column

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![image](https://www.hackforla.org/assets/images/projects/ballotnav.jpg)

**Project Name**: BallotNav

**Volunteer Opportunity**: 
UX Researcher & Designer

We are currently conducting product-market fit research, collecting data from organizations that work to mobilize US voters. Right now we could use help organising our customer development work (e.g. documenting research plans, cataloguing our data, etc) Ideally you have experience working on a product from end-to-end. 

Ideally, you are:
A UX researcher with experience in all design stages: Discovery, Problem Definition, Prototyping and Testing.
Experience designing research programs and presentations.
Skilled at communicating with team members in different roles: product managers, engineers, other UX researchers and designers, etc.

**Duration**: Open-ended (~6hrs/week) 
**Meeting times**: Tuesday's 6PM PST 

**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack channel name: #ballotnav 
- Slack name of person to contact: Stacey

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Project Name: BallotNav

Volunteer Opportunity:
UX Researcher & Designer

We are currently conducting product-market fit research, collecting data from organizations that work to mobilize US voters. Right now we could use help organising our customer development work (e.g. documenting research plans, cataloguing our data, etc) Ideally you have experience working on a product from end-to-end.

Ideally, you are:
A UX researcher with experience in all design stages: Discovery, Problem Definition, Prototyping and Testing.
Experience designing research programs and presentations.
Skilled at communicating with team members in different roles: product managers, engineers, other UX researchers and designers, etc.

Duration: Open-ended (~6hrs/week)
Meeting times: Tuesday's 6PM PST

Who to communicate your interest to

• Slack channel name: #ballotnav
• Slack name of person to contact: Stacey

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Post from previous UI/UX Design open roles board, Filled column

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![image](https://www.hackforla.org/assets/images/projects/ballotnav.jpg)

**Project Name**: BallotNav

**About the Project**: BallotNav is a navigation tool that aims to prevent disenfranchisement by providing reliable and up-to-date information on ballot drop off locations across the US. Additional information at https://about.ballotnav.org/

**Volunteer Opportunity**: We are looking for 1-2 UI/UX  designers to help us work on updating wireframes for our presentations with potential partners. You will also work on cleaning up and refining our high fidelity web and mobile prototypes in Figma, usability test prototypes. 

We are especially looking for people who are familiar with **Figma**. 

**Duration**: 1-2 months

**Who to communicate your interest to**
- Slack channel link: [#ballotnav](https://hackforla.slack.com/archives/C0191KE1XB7)
- Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Karen Coronel

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Project Name: BallotNav

About the Project: BallotNav is a navigation tool that aims to prevent disenfranchisement by providing reliable and up-to-date information on ballot drop off locations across the US. Additional information at https://about.ballotnav.org/

Volunteer Opportunity: We are looking for 1-2 UI/UX designers to help us work on updating wireframes for our presentations with potential partners. You will also work on cleaning up and refining our high fidelity web and mobile prototypes in Figma, usability test prototypes.

We are especially looking for people who are familiar with Figma.

Duration: 1-2 months

Who to communicate your interest to

• Slack channel link: #ballotnav
• Slack name of person to contact in the channel: Karen Coronel