# January 16, 2019

**URL:** <https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/january-16-2019/421>\
**Category:** National Advisory Council (NAC)\
**Tags:** agenda\
**Created:** [February 24, 2019, 9:34pm UTC](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/january-16-2019/421 "2019-02-24T21:34:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 24, 2019, 9:34pm UTC](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/january-16-2019/421/1 "2019-02-24T21:34:59Z")

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Attendees:  
NAC: Jill Bjers, Chris Alfano, Emma Burnett, Nina Kin, Laura Biediger, Dawn McDougall, Jason Hibbets  
CFA: Meredith Horowski, Christopher Whitaker, Veronica Young, Tom Dooner, Hashim Mteuzi

# Pre-Meeting Updates

## Upcoming Calendar

- Upcoming Workshops: None on CfA Brigade calendar
- 2019 Calendar:
  - ODD - March 2nd
  - Summit - May 29-31 (Oakland)
  - NDOCH - September 21st
  - Brigade Congress - October 18-20th (Cleveland)

- Brigade onboarding / offboarding
  - Onboarding - Code for Hackensack, Code for Kentuckiana
  - Offboarding - Code for Berkeley, NIU Tech Bark, TBD re: MOU process

## NAC Updates

- Chris
  - Holidays are for hacking in the dark 😃

- Dawn
  - Code for JC – working on getting the word out about partnerships with mesh networks and tenant rights
    - No current interest in joining NAC

- Emma
  - Summit content committee planning is underway. We are going to work on reviewing submissions in-person early February for main stage & breakout content.
  - New project model for OpenMaine; sharing w other “fledgling”/ small/struggling brigades – who might qualify?
  - OpenMaine: We had the Cumberland County Emergency Response coordinator reach out proactively to help create an “information portal” of sorts – scrape social media mentions of an event and put all in one place in order to combat misinformation. Going to take first meetings and then reach out to other groups – we have much to learn/ share from the network on emergency response.

- Janet
  - Meeting with prospective Cincinnati Brigade founder next week
  - Also recruiting…HT Jason!

- Jason
  - I will join the first part of tonight’s meeting by phone, then by video when I get home from a meet-up;
  - Held a discovery call around BATs, next steps are to form a small working group (Kevin, Mohit, Annie) and follow-up with Tom on infrastructure questions;
  - Has a self-formed BAT from Code for Hackensack:
  - United World of Rescue Brigade Action Team (UWR BAT)
  - Purpose: To consolidate Animal Rescue platforms into a single repository, encourage the development of new applications, and facilitate collaboration across a planetary cooperative
  - I’ve also been recruiting NAC election candidates.

- Jill
  - Working on on-boarding information for the next NAC.
  - Hex Stickers are coming along. Working on New Orleans now.

- Laura
- Nina
  - 2nd meeting of Design group.
  - Good stuff coming out of California state, looking to tie them into Open Data Day planning.
  - Presented about HFLA 2019 planning in the online workshop on Monday.
  - On a personal level - I got elected to the board of the SoCal ACLU, so I’m looking forward to collaboration there.
  - SCaLE 17x - potential gov/civic tech programming + tabling opportunities at this open source software conference.

- Ramy

## CFA Updates

- Brigade Team Focus
  - Heads up about our Q1 OKRs

- Meredith
  - In Miami for a wedding, so staying after for a couple days to meet with Miami, Tampa Bay, Orlando
  - Had 10.5 hours of meetings today (YIKES)
  - Anyone object to putting together a twitter group for NAC + engaged twitter-ers in the Network?
  - Shutdown: trying to think about creative things we can do to help provide essential services while government is shutdown. Any interest in this, or ideas?

- Christopher
  - MOU Report Back
    - To date: 80% of Brigades re-signed
    - A handful of Brigades haven’t signed, but said that they will (Like DC)

  - Brigades have to sign by the 31st to participate in elections  
NAC Elections Now Live!
  - Candidate Sheet has been created
  - Here is an Example Invitation language
  - Here’s the ask of you:
    - Reach out to a woman and a person of color that you think would be great for NAC
    - Regional Reps, ping your Brigades about the elections
    - Tweet / Slack reminders to Brigades at large about the elections

- Veronica
  - Brigade Census in progress, interest in co-authoring the blog post announcement?
  - Working with Jill on Brigade Health Checklist, any other thoughts on this?
  - Thinking about NAC onboarding/offboarding weekend….anyone want to colead?

- Tom
  - Still need more user testing volunteers!
  - Upcoming projects: Reporting back Brigade Census to Brigade leaders, Helping leaders measure their retention

- Hashim
  - Please share the Public Interest Tech Job Board with your circles
    - 132 active high-impact opportunities currently listed
    - Q3 2018: 16 people placed in public interest tech roles
    - Q4 2018: 13 people placed in public interest tech roles

# Agenda

## Health Check-in

- Everyone good?
  - All standing in agreement that we are good.

- What was successful this month?
  - What was successful this month?
  - Feel good about meetings around NAC role and job descriptions.
  - Code for JC doing cool work with community partners. Coreteam is more focused on education, which is interesting.
  - New BAT started by HackSackensack (Misspoke calling them Newark)
  - Good call with Tulsa about promoting and supporting Courtbot
  - CA State is working on cool new technology stuff with partnership potential.
  - Emma had a good meeting with Harvard Kennedy fellows about transition and good civic tech
  - Maine is looking at some new stuff about projects and looking to share stuff about small projects.
  - Laura and Nick have been doing a lot around the Design meetup push.
  - Nina elected to Southern California Board for ACLU - CONGRATS!
  - Scale17 - open source software conference in CA. Jason and Nina working with organizers to expand their open source track.

- Do you need anything to increase your “health?”

## CFA Time

- “Heads-Up” items (Meredith)
  - Good workshop on strategic priorities on Monday. Thanks Veronica & Nina! Agenda
  - Q1 OKRs (MH)
  - NAC on-site (VY)
  - Co-Leads will be Dawn and Jill
  - Census Blog Post- Janet will co-author

- NAC elections (5 min) (CW)
  - Here’s the ask of you:
  - Reach out to womxn / nonbinary folks and/or person of color that you think would be great for NAC and put their info into the nomination form so we can track it - current recruits are here
  - When you’ve done this; ping the NAC channel with your nomination so we don’t pick the same person twice - Please do this by Jan 25th
  - Currently, we have 45% of our potential recruits as Women or People of color and we’re trying to get 60% - so we need at least another additional 15 candidates to get that goal - 30 if we want to be safe
  - Regional Reps, ping your Brigades about the elections - Please do this by Jan 21st
  - Tweet / Slack reminders to Brigades at large about the elections from now until the 25th. We want each NAC member to ping the channel at least once before then.
    - Sample Outreach Language

  - Outreach Ideas
    - Join other Brigades Slack; (Tom has the auto-join list)
    - Meetup Message to All Brigades

- Summit + Brigade day (10 min) (MH)
  - Overview on content side
  - Three main tracks: gov ops, digital delivery, civic innovation
  - Meeting mid-Feb to go over submissions
    - 30ish working on content selection
    - Over 400 submissions

  - Tickets and Travel Process
    - Unlimited number brigade tickets at $250 cost
    - Financial aid for comp ticket and travel stipend

  - Brigade Day (VY)
    - Content Committee
    - Leadership Retreats re: Dawn
    - Attendees - Can we have some intentionality around the target audience for Summit (maybe a more mature member of the network | maybe a 1.0) vs Congress (maybe potential leaders we’re trying to groom | maybe a 2.0)

- Fellowship (10-15 min)
  - 2018 lessons learned
  - 2019 goals + timeline
  - How NAC can plug-in
    - Screening applications / selection process
    - Driving submissions & applications
    - Apply!

## NAC Time

- [NAC Roles Presented](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_ycSoscdViE99VIXqtof-aHYf-W7pQNnVjaQ3ExbOGs/edit?usp=sharing) - Jill (15 min)

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