CivicTechJobs

CivicTechJobs is a project of Hack for LA. CivicTechJobs helps technology practitioners interested in having civic impact to find job opportunities from a central hub of listings. The website's main features include a linklist to public interest job boards and other resources relevent to their focused journey to work on projects and solve problems with a public benefit.

The CivicTechJobs.org MVP site will be a platform to help prospective volunteers find inter disciplinary projects that will be useful for their career development while contributing to positive civic impact and a CMS for Hack for LA projects to be able to list their open roles.

The tool will match volunteers by availability, role, and program area. Future iterations of the platform will focus helping volunteers find volunteer opportunities that match paid job postings, so that a volunteer can better prepare themselves for the marketplace.

Project context

Civic Tech technology practitioners are a diverse and interdisciplinary group of people. Their backgrounds are in technology, design and product. They work inside governments, at nongovernmental agencies, and within for-profit corporations. Some of them do this full time as a career. Some do this to develop their personal skills in collaboration. Others do this in their spare time, as a hobby.

One Sheet

Technology used

Collaboration Technologies

• GitHub Project Board
• Slack
• Google Drive
• Figma

Project Tech Stack

Frontend

• React
  • React Router
  • Jest
  • React Testing Library
  • @axe-core/react
• Sass
• Webpack
• Babel

Backend

• Django
• Django Rest Framework
• Swagger
• PostgreSQL

CD/CI Infrastructure

• Whitenoise
• AWS
• hackforla/incubator
• Docker
• GitHub Actions

Documentation

• MkDocs | Docs Site

How to contribute

• Attend Hack for LA onboarding
• Join the Slack Channel and say hello! we have team meetings every tuesday at 5PM PST

As a project manager, UI designer, or UX researcher:

• Provide UX/UI design support.
• Help us with usability testing.

As a developer:

Please visit our CONTRIBUTING.md for information on contributing as a developer, installing and running this project locally, and our architecture.

Submitting a Bug

We do not currently have a dedicated issue template for contributors outside of our team to report bugs. For now, please open a blank issue and describe your inquiry as best as you can. Once you are finished, add your newly opened issue to our Project Management project board.

this readme file sourced from Jessica Sand