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Project Definition

Create a comprehensive, searchable index of all civic tech open source software projects around the world.

Introduction To The Project

What is The Civic Tech Index? Simply put, it’s a movement to index every useful Civic Tech Open Source project.

Why do it? People all over the world working in civic tech need a way to find open source projects to model, connect with and learn from.

Hasn't it been done already?!! There have been many attempts to make a searchable registry of these projects. But until now, it has been impossible to create an authoritative source, because it always required a lot of data entry on the part of each project and marketing by the registry owner.

So how is this different? We now have a path that :

• Only takes 1 min or less per project to join the index

• Requires no coding skill

• And the index is owned by all who contribute to it

What are our guiding objectives?

1. To create a framework that makes it easy for any civic creator to tag and submit their project to the index in 2 mins or less.
2. To create a user friendly website making it easy for anyone to search the index and find code for projects that are ready for iteration and customization.
3. To demonstrate the power of the index and and build a solution to support civic tech organizations worldwide

Joining the Civic Tech Index Team

Introduction

Welcome to the Civic Tech Index team! This guide will help get you up to speed on what you need to know to get started as a project team member.

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Let's go!

If you have not read the Hack For LA Guide for New Volunteers, please do so.

1. Join the #civic-tech-index slack channel and introduce yourself.
2. Slack our PM, Bonnie, with your email address.
3. Accept your Google Drive invite to access the shared folder.
4. Add yourself to the Team Roster. Then, Slack our PM with "Added to Roster".
5. Read Introduction to the Project.

Get acquainted with accessibility:

Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires that all websites be accessible to people with disabilities. The World Wide Web (W3C) Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA function as the current legal standard for website accessibility. Read The Toolkit: https://www.ada.gov/pcatoolkit/chap5toolkit.htm

Team

Name	Role
Bonnie Wolfe	Technical Project Manager
Chali Prasertsri	UX Lead
Gwendolyn Snapp	Visual Designer
Abhishek Chhabra	Full Stack Developer, Lead Back End
Nandana Rao	Full Stack Developer
Jonathan Sachsman	Product Manager

Resources

1. Design Proposal
2. A list of Civic Tech Organizations worldwide
3. Wireframes

Glossary:

Term	Alternate terms	Official Link	Description
Github Organization	org	*
Github Repository	repo	[Github Help](https://help.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository/classifying-your-repository-with-topics)
Topic Tags	tags	*
Index			A common method for keeping track of data so that it can be accessed quickly. Like an index in a book, it is a list in which each entry contains the name of the item and its location. However, computer-based indexes may point to a physical location on a disk or to a logical location that points elsewhere to the actual location.