This is a placeholder for notes and discussion about the Brigade Congress 2019 session:
Session: Cross Brigade Collab
Presented by: Bonnie Wolfe (Hack for LA), Tim Eccleston (Code for Nashville)
Notes Document:
Re: the idea of sharing conference plans somewhere, I set up this community calendar as a possible prototype: https://teamup.com/ksyi23fqm2ja3zxps4
Cross Brigade Collaboration Notes
Facilitators
- Bonnie Hack for LA
- Tim code for Nashville
Purpose: Relationship building and figuring out tools for building collaboration
Brigades Meeting Outside of Conferences:
- At summit a quick talk about brigades meeting together outside of conferences:
- Any way to do that? Road trip!
- Pool money between brigades
- Not just the leads but the members meet too
- Scheduled all brigade members from Nashville, Louisville, code for Dayton … road trip to congress
- Rented van
- How much engagement from all members in brigades about trip… hard to know
- Open data days
- Delegations from one brigade to another
- Slack Tim Eccleston for more info
Project Index
- Started at Summit 2019
- Pilot Members from SFO, OAK, San Diego, Boston, Philly
- A group that meets every other week
- Slack - #brigade-project-index
- Next call after congress will be catchup October 27th 6pm pst
- http://Brigade.cloud
Know Your Rights
- Example tool that many brigades can work on
- Site is statewide
- Multiple brigades collaborate at least for larger states with many brigades
Brigades Helping with CfA National Work
- In response to interest about the CfA national work
- First research team was record clearance research team
- NDoCH feeds into that
- How to advocate based on findings
- across all fifty states
- Second research team
- Color of Change
- Winning Justice database
- Info about prosecutors across country ahead of 2020 elections voting on prosecutors
- apply by Monday
- National Know your Rights Site
- Ask for participation to come soon from open Oakland and hack for la
- CfA likes to promote the opportunities
- Multiple points of entry
- People find out about it via national slack or e-mail to brigade leaders
- How to pre-format for making stuff easier to cross post?
- Discourse #winning-color
Code for KC
- Clear my record team
- Relations between KC and StL
- Legislative policy sessions - state facilitation talks
- What happens in KC could go to STL
Laura B - taxonomy of interest
- Facilitates monthly calls
Community Newsletter
- Across the state
- Twice monthly
- TWICT is on hold
- Is that the right format?
- Colorado has 3 brigades, all three can collaborate on one Google doc
- CfA does collect newsletters
- or just tell people
- Use #content-collaboration
- Launch on Jan 1st all newsletters
- @joshbernstein on slack
CfA to Brigades
- use e-mail different from just captain e-mail
- Bigger brigades can host devs from tiny brigades while they build
- Include new brigades in org meetings
Brigade BnB
- Philly
- Honolulu
Brigade Swag Store
- Multiple brigades could collaborate on content that shares between stores
- Zazzle Store - store of brigade oriented merchandise/swag to celebrate
- Single brigade store less powerful than all brigade store
- Maybe CfA owns store
- Or maybe google sheet / discourse of all stores
- Or have CfA own store and drop-down at checkout to choose which brigade gets money
- Or use Patreon
- Need more quotes from non-white / non-male etc.
- @micahmutrux
Misc. Notes
- Mostly from Greg - Code for DC
- Regional Convening
- Great for people from outside of region
- Slack channel or something to help travel dates intersect at same place / time
- Convenings that are not just focused on brigade stuff the whole time
- What are the various civic tech conferences that brigades never go to… how can we can arrange to meet at these events?
- Top civic tech events?
- Room sharing?
- Note sharing!
- TeamUp.com - maybe worth checking out for road trips etc.
- Start small!