# Cross Brigade Collab \[Brigade Congress 2019\]

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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:

> **[\[Notes\] Cross Brigade Collab – Brigade Congress 2019](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c2ZHd0OxhhkZs0hLVM1j77WEcsSqXifctuJJ_oSUPcs/edit#)**
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> Cross Brigade Collab by Bonnie Wolfe (Hack for LA), Tim Eccleston (Code for Nashville) – Brigade Congress 2019 Active Projects Road Trips (Tim Eccleston) Slack @Tim-Eccleston Various nation-wide brigade collaborations (Veronica) Discourse: "Winning...

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Re: the idea of sharing conference plans somewhere, I set up this community calendar as a possible prototype: [https://teamup.com/ksyi23fqm2ja3zxps4](https://teamup.com/ksyi23fqm2ja3zxps4)

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# Cross Brigade Collaboration Notes

Facilitators

- Bonnie Hack for LA
- Tim code for Nashville

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### Purpose: Relationship building and figuring out tools for building collaboration

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#### 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

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#### 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](http://Brigade.cloud)

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#### 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

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#### 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

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#### 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

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#### Laura B - taxonomy of interest

- Facilitates monthly calls

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#### 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

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#### 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

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#### Brigade BnB

- Philly
- Honolulu

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#### 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

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#### 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](http://TeamUp.com) - maybe worth checking out for road trips etc.
- Start small!

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