Project Frameworks/Guidelines/Checklists/etc

For project canvass resources, check out this Discourse post: Creating the Next Generation of Brigade Project Guidance [Brigade Congress 2019].

Based on recent Slack discussion, I put together a list of project management resources from brigade around the Network:

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Here’s OpenOakland’s How to be an OpenOakland Project page.

We don’t have as clear a process as many other Brigades, so we’ll be looking to adopt some thinking on this soon!

Added OpenOakland :+1:t4:

I alphabetized the list before adding Code for Philly so that I might resist the urge to add us to the top :smiley:

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In a similar vein to civic.json, there’s publiccode.yml

Hi there, Code for Denver’s Members Project is in its super early stages, so this would probably give a better idea of our guidelines/checklists: waffle.io/codefordenver/projects

The first card in each column has info about each stage of the project life cycle as well as requirements.

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@miklb pointed out this great readme template: https://gist.github.com/miklb/1737a9c897660261bbc7674e187b0c83

Here’s a handy collection of project documentation templates:

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I’m not sure how long this has been a thing, but GitHub published and supports a bunch of “community health” standards exactly like we were talking about:

https://help.github.com/en/articles/creating-a-default-community-health-file-for-your-organization

So this makes figuring out how to standardize super easy…

For non-code projects, we could just publish repos on behalf of teams as at the least a means of documenting/publishing community health files

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